Fall or disintegration of complex human societies, involving causative factors such as natural disasters, environmental change, depletion of resources, unsustainable complexity, decay of social cohesion, rising inequality, and loss of creativity.
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Examples for "collapse "
1 Last year, auto supporters said an industry collapse would devastate the economy.
2 Officials said the second building was not yet at risk of collapse .
3 There is great concern across Europe about the collapse of bee populations.
4 Aid groups say health services across the country are close to collapse .
5 Progressives anticipated direct government action to address the consequences of economic collapse .
1 If humankind spirals into societal collapse , these dreams will be the cause.
2 What do you think Walking Dead gets wrong about societal collapse ?
3 It only makes societal collapse more likely, by curtailing action and dividing the community even further.
4 Denial, including of the emerging prospect of societal collapse itself, will be widespread, as will rejection of evidence-based fact.
5 Sometimes on his chalkboard he will scribble "God, gold, guns"-thethree safe harbors in a societal collapse .
1 It may have been untouched since the fall of civilization .
2 All the peaks of foundation material showing through the rock, and the fall of civilization only fifteen hundred years old!
3 So many things had gone with the Fall of civilization .
4 Throughout he compares the rise and fall of civilizations to the trajectory of failed personal relationships.
1 It's an inescapable energy crisis and the subsequent breakdown of society .
2 THAT'S MATHS:A RECENT blockbuster, Contagion, painted a terrifying picture of the breakdown of society following a viral pandemic.
3 What a terrible breakdown of society .
4 Like, total breakdown of society ugly.
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