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At its height, the Roman Empire was home to about 30 % of the world’s population, and in many ways the pinnacle of human advancement. Rome became the first city in history to reach one million inhabitants and was a center of technological, legal, and economic progress. An empire impossible to topple, stable and rich and powerful.
Until it wasn’t anymore. First slowly then suddenly, the most powerful civilization on earth collapsed. If this is how it has been over the ages, what about us today? Will we lose our industrial technology, and with that our greatest achievements, from one dollar pizza to smartphones or laser eye surgery? Will all this go away too?
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Your channels subject matter appears fear based,seemingly disguised as educational. Pretty sad…
Altruism is the ultimate evil.
Does that mean our peas will one day be as big as today's tomato?
FAKE NEWS…NOT TRUE OR INFORMATIVE
SMOKE MORE POT AND REWRITE
THIS STORY…OF FANTASY
I'm sorry, but how are you throwing around centuries as is that's a short period of time? That generations of trauma and destruction, you can't act like the Black Death did nothing when it destroyed the continent's ability to evolve for almost 400 years.
This video reminds me why i love watching Kurzgesagt. Amazing vid btw.
amungus
Thais si their worst video
in usa corp, maybe..they to busy minding everyone else's business to deal with their own issues. other countries are mostly doing ok.
I fucking hope so
For Rome it was Visigoths. For us, it's the climate change fanatics.
Covfefe
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oddly, I think I'd thrive in a rebuilding world, hope no one shoots me for a loaf of bread before i can make them 10 more 🙂
One other issue is we have also mined out much of the easily accessed ores. Sure we can recover some from scrap, but lots of recycling tech for some materials require high tech to pull off efficiently. But if we have to recover from basic tools, it will be difficult to mine what we have left with those tools. Are we able to rebuild technology without it when we have already harvested the easiest deposits which were the very ones that allowed that industrial and technological revolution to happen?
Effective altruism is such a stupid thought when you think about it for more than 10 minutes. Look up on YouTube why it is bad and you can find plenty of people that make better arguments than what I can do in a short comment.
Haven’t seen it yet. From 1 to 10, how bad is it?
Ah yes, I do love hearing how we’re all doomed 😌
One thing that's barely mentioned is the impact of population growth on the process of a civilization's collapse, which up to recently have been on a smaller regional scale. If the population explosion continues into the next generation, we may live to see a scenario where humanity grows to a point where the planet's resources cannot sustain them all. This has never happened before for our species, so we don't have a model for the chain reaction of consequences it could produce: the wars it would cause (directly or indirectly), famines, further pandemics eased by high population density, crime, etc. We are marching headlong into uncertain territory on this one, and while such a scenario might not be enough to collapse global civilization beyond repair, it does still have the potential to be more devastating than previous ones. The mere concept of this is enough to temper any optimism I might have had about the future, since I don't trust the species to act rationally with any consistency.
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