The End Is Nigh — Can Collapse Be Avoided?

Part 5: Addicted To Hopium

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Modern civilization is facing its most challenging time yet, with resources dwindling, climate changing, and societal pressures increasing. It’s only a matter of time before society needs to feed on itself to maintain some modicum of quality of life.

In my last post (part 4), I argued that collapse will take the form of a slow, grueling, crumbling of society, as ‘prophesied’ by T. S. Eliot: “This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.”

But are we doomed to battle it out in the Thunderdome or hunt and forage for food like our ancestors? Might we fix our sinking ship? Is there hope?

In this series, I explore the collapse of modern civilization.
- What is collapse?
- Why collapse is inevitable
- When will society collapse?
- How society will collapse
- Can collapse be avoided? [you are here]
- What to do in the face of collapse?
- Summary
- Appendix: Bonus content and links