retard economic growth, even to the point of leading to an economic collapse. Premature adult mortality may exacerbate … induce, a collapse, depending on the initial conditions and the size and duration of the shock. Awareness campaigns may also … trigger a collapse by introducing undesirable expectational feedbacks. …

including significant debt defaults. The financial crisis may eventually worsen, to resemble a collapse situation as described … by Joseph Tainter in The Collapse of Complex Societies (1990) or an adverse decline situation similar to adverse …

: acceptance of an inevitable societal collapse (as a feature, and not a bug, of complexity) and managing such a collapse to …

. Whether collapse or unimaginable riches through breakthrough technological progress will be the future, these scenarios …