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How long can this civilisation last?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I don't think it will be nuclear wars or religious fanaticism that will destroy western civilisation, but something seemingly mundane like a worldwide loss of confidence in the capitalist, monetary system. I accept that may be heightened by fears of war and fanaticism, but the end of civilisation is rarely dramatic, more a forseeable, yet relentless decline.
More than 30 years ago I heard an American scientist say that the world need not fear the atomic bomb so much as human sexual energy.
The world is grossly overpopulated and some religious groups refuse to accept birth control .
But it is not only people who are the problem. Materials are being used up at a rate beyond our capacity to renew them.
The party if not yet over, is coming to an end and I feel genuine sympathy for those who have not lived a life as long as mine.
My greatest disappointment at dying is that I shall not know what will happen, but anyone who looks in Arnold Toynbee's 'Study of Histor'y'' will learn of his conclusions following investigation into the collapse of twenty civilisations. They all failed because of the introduction of (kind) 'socialism', replacing (unkind) authoritarian rule.
You have your liberal society; the consequences will surely follow.
The world is grossly overpopulated and some religious groups refuse to accept birth control .
But it is not only people who are the problem. Materials are being used up at a rate beyond our capacity to renew them.
The party if not yet over, is coming to an end and I feel genuine sympathy for those who have not lived a life as long as mine.
My greatest disappointment at dying is that I shall not know what will happen, but anyone who looks in Arnold Toynbee's 'Study of Histor'y'' will learn of his conclusions following investigation into the collapse of twenty civilisations. They all failed because of the introduction of (kind) 'socialism', replacing (unkind) authoritarian rule.
You have your liberal society; the consequences will surely follow.