{"id":13624,"date":"2025-01-05T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13624"},"modified":"2025-02-16T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T19:08:09","slug":"yes-or-perhaps-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/01\/05\/yes-or-perhaps-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, or perhaps No."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/dec\/28\/we-need-dramatic-social-and-technological-changes-is-societal-collapse-inevitable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We need dramatic social and technological changes\u2019: is societal collapse inevitable?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Academic Danilo Brozovi\u0107 says studies of failed civilisations all point in one direction \u2013 today\u2019s society needs radical transformation to survive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/damiancarrington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Damian Carrington<\/a><em> \/ Environment Editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"6. Easter Island - Where Giants Walked\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7j08gxUcBgc?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For someone who has examined 361 studies and 73 books on societal collapses, Danilo Brozovi\u0107\u2019s conclusion on what must happen to avoid today\u2019s world imploding is both disarmingly simple and a daunting challenge: \u201cWe need dramatic social and technological changes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collapse of past civilisations, from the mighty Mayan empire to Rapa Nui (Easter Island), has long fascinated people and for obvious reasons \u2013 how stable is our own society? Does ever-growing complexity in societies or human hubris inevitably lead to oblivion? In the face of the climate crisis, rampant destruction of the natural world, rising geopolitical tensions and more, the question is more urgent than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMore and more academic articles are mentioning the threat of collapse because of climate change,\u201d says Brozovi\u0107 at the school of business at the University of Sk\u00f6vde, Sweden. The issue of collapse hooked him after it was raised in a project on business sustainability, which then led to his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0016328722001768#bib207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">comprehensive review<\/a>\u00a0in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/dec\/28\/we-need-dramatic-social-and-technological-changes-is-societal-collapse-inevitable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian We need dramatic social and technological changes\u2019: is societal collapse inevitable? Academic Danilo Brozovi\u0107 says studies of failed civilisations all point in one direction \u2013 today\u2019s society needs radical transformation to survive by Damian Carrington \/ Environment Editor For someone who has examined 361 studies and 73 books on societal collapses, Danilo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}