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Meanings of societal collapse in English

Russian
социальный коллапс
Catalan
col·lapse societal
Spanish
catástrofe social

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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социальный коллапс
Usage of societal collapse in English
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If humankind spirals into societal collapse, these dreams will be the cause.
The Guardian
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What do you think Walking Dead gets wrong about societal collapse?
Wired
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It only makes societal collapse more likely, by curtailing action and dividing the community even further.
The Guardian
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Denial, including of the emerging prospect of societal collapse itself, will be widespread, as will rejection of evidence-based fact.
BBC
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Sometimes on his chalkboard he will scribble "God, gold, guns"-thethree safe harbors in a societal collapse.
Tears of a clown: glenn beck and the tea bagging of america
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One may think that surviving a societal collapse requires one to have access to bunkers, private jets and fire arms.
The South African
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Europe, the Middle East and much of Asia fell into economic and societal collapse that would last just over a century.
News.com.au
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Since the 1960s, mortality rates declined and policymakers grew concerned that population growth would lead to unprecedented famine and societal collapse.
The South African
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But, instead of contemplating ruins of ancient and recent societal collapse, she must pass her time debating with an artificial being.
Existence
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The dumb destruction of the Statue of Liberty in Hollywood blockbusters is idiot-proof shorthand for societal collapse and loss of first-world power.
The Guardian
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When you line them all up they provide the next best thing to an instruction manual for societal collapse and an assuredly dystopian future.
The Irish Times
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'Natal chart.' Online astrology is one of the sure signs of imminent societal collapse.
The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
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'That was the original intention, but it seems that, now the predicted societal collapse has begun, things are accelerating.' Smith shook his head slowly.
The Departure