This film covers 3 collapsed societies: The Anasazi, the Maya and the Romans. These examples start with just a couple simple reasons to the more complicated and asks, can what happened to them, happen to us (the United States)?
To illustrate that it could, it imagines a world of 2210 with a 5°C warming (which climate forecasts say is possible) long after a 21st century societal collapse, with investigators of the time looking into desert ruins in Phoenix, Las Vegas, and the Mexican border as well as underwater ruins in South Florida.
Jared Diamond, along with other writers and archeologists, say we have an advantage over these societies, which is we have a literate population, live in the Information Age and can learn from earlier collapses. He questions whether we will give in to short-term thinking or make the societal changes needed to avert collapse. He uses the analogy of a horse race between one of destruction and one of innovation.
The film came out 10 years ago and shortly after the book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which I read. I only watched the film today after failing to find it for months on cable or Disney+, which broadcast Nat Geo content. It was made not too long after the U. S. housing collapse, which is mentioned; and Jared Diamond mentions global population which was 1 billion less than today! One contributor wonders, how long would a collapse take - years or months? One mentions the downside of globalization: pandemics, which we are in year-2 of now. But anyone at the start saying it might be a 3-year pandemic weren't welcome in the media. So is this show also forbidden or unthinkable? Likewise, a scientist at the start of 2020 said the pandemic would be a test whether Americans would follow scientific and medical experts to solve the problem. The answer so far is no.
To illustrate that it could, it imagines a world of 2210 with a 5°C warming (which climate forecasts say is possible) long after a 21st century societal collapse, with investigators of the time looking into desert ruins in Phoenix, Las Vegas, and the Mexican border as well as underwater ruins in South Florida.
Jared Diamond, along with other writers and archeologists, say we have an advantage over these societies, which is we have a literate population, live in the Information Age and can learn from earlier collapses. He questions whether we will give in to short-term thinking or make the societal changes needed to avert collapse. He uses the analogy of a horse race between one of destruction and one of innovation.
The film came out 10 years ago and shortly after the book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which I read. I only watched the film today after failing to find it for months on cable or Disney+, which broadcast Nat Geo content. It was made not too long after the U. S. housing collapse, which is mentioned; and Jared Diamond mentions global population which was 1 billion less than today! One contributor wonders, how long would a collapse take - years or months? One mentions the downside of globalization: pandemics, which we are in year-2 of now. But anyone at the start saying it might be a 3-year pandemic weren't welcome in the media. So is this show also forbidden or unthinkable? Likewise, a scientist at the start of 2020 said the pandemic would be a test whether Americans would follow scientific and medical experts to solve the problem. The answer so far is no.