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The term collapsology is a neologism used to designate the transdisciplinary study of the risks of collapse of our industrial civilization.

Although the concept of societal or civilizational collapse had already existed for many years, collapsology focuses its attention on our contemporary, industrial and globalized society.

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1	Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1) by Theodore John Kaczynski 4.17 avg rating — 1,423 ratings score: 2,698, and 27 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski 3.84 avg rating — 13,605 ratings score: 2,662, and 27 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How by Theodore John Kaczynski 3.94 avg rating — 668 ratings score: 2,659, and 27 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Collapse: Navigating Civilization's Predicaments With Wisdom and Courage by Juan Pablo Quiñonez (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows 4.20 avg rating — 1,889 ratings score: 197, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker 3.81 avg rating — 1,957 ratings score: 175, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for Our Times by Pablo Servigne 4.16 avg rating — 1,196 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 8,585 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Marine Pollution: What Everyone Needs to Know® by Judith S. Weis 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Deep Adaptation by Jem Bendell 4.06 avg rating — 176 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid by Ugo Bardi (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 63 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 51,867 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan 4.15 avg rating — 14,099 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond 3.94 avg rating — 75,859 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us by Christophe Bonneuil 4.18 avg rating — 535 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses by Dan Carlin 3.87 avg rating — 14,433 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollmann 3.76 avg rating — 424 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollmann 4.31 avg rating — 196 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age by John Michael Greer 4.18 avg rating — 813 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter 4.15 avg rating — 1,585 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change by William R. Catton Jr. 4.46 avg rating — 460 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott 4.12 avg rating — 5,230 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (Goodreads Author) (Author, Narrator) 3.99 avg rating — 30,624 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Good American: A Situation Report for Citizens by B. Sidney Smith (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy by David Fleming 3.97 avg rating — 151 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman 4.17 avg rating — 41,846 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton 4.07 avg rating — 250 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment by Chris Martenson 4.16 avg rating — 657 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell (Author, Narrator) 3.72 avg rating — 2,795 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation by A.J. Friedemann 4.58 avg rating — 26 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization by Roy Scranton (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 1,978 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil 4.09 avg rating — 4,313 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency by Mark Lynas 4.17 avg rating — 717 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 4.31 avg rating — 4,933 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Another End of the World is Possible: Living the Collapse (and Not Merely Surviving It) by Pablo Servigne 3.75 avg rating — 269 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World by Michael C. Ruppert 3.82 avg rating — 313 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit by Dmitry Orlov 3.91 avg rating — 303 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	The Chaos Point: The world at the crossroads by Ervin Laszlo 3.87 avg rating — 87 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats by Gwynne Dyer 3.85 avg rating — 663 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us Or the Environment by Michael Huesemann 3.99 avg rating — 100 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars