Collapsology — Non-fiction (38 books)

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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 4.18 avg rating — 1,377 ratings score: 2,898, and 29 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	Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How by Theodore John Kaczynski 3.94 avg rating — 626 ratings score: 2,857, and 29 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	Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski 3.85 avg rating — 12,657 ratings score: 2,760, and 28 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	Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows 4.21 avg rating — 1,823 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
5	Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker 3.82 avg rating — 1,908 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
6	How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for Our Times by Pablo Servigne 4.16 avg rating — 1,154 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
6	The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 8,201 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
8	Deep Adaptation by Jem Bendell 4.06 avg rating — 170 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
9	The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid by Ugo Bardi (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 60 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
9	How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 51,206 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	The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan 4.16 avg rating — 13,409 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
12	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond 3.94 avg rating — 74,880 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
13	The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us by Christophe Bonneuil 4.23 avg rating — 504 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
14	The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses by Dan Carlin 3.88 avg rating — 13,946 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
15	No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollmann 3.77 avg rating — 396 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
16	No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollmann 4.33 avg rating — 187 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
17	The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age by John Michael Greer 4.18 avg rating — 805 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
18	The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter 4.15 avg rating — 1,506 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
19	Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change by William R. Catton Jr. 4.45 avg rating — 451 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
20	Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott 4.13 avg rating — 4,913 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
21	The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (Goodreads Author) (Author, Narrator) 3.99 avg rating — 29,996 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
22	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
23	Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy by David Fleming 3.97 avg rating — 144 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
24	Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman 4.17 avg rating — 39,016 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
25	Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton 4.06 avg rating — 249 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
26	The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment by Chris Martenson 4.16 avg rating — 648 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
27	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 — 2,737 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
28	When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation by A.J. Friedemann 4.64 avg rating — 25 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
29	Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization by Roy Scranton (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 1,945 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
30	Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil 4.09 avg rating — 4,149 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
31	Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency by Mark Lynas 4.18 avg rating — 685 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
32	On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 4.32 avg rating — 4,721 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
33	Another End of the World is Possible: Living the Collapse (and Not Merely Surviving It) by Pablo Servigne 3.75 avg rating — 259 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
34	Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World by Michael C. Ruppert 3.84 avg rating — 312 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
35	The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit by Dmitry Orlov 3.91 avg rating — 297 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
36	The Chaos Point: The world at the crossroads by Ervin Laszlo 3.89 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
37	Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats by Gwynne Dyer 3.85 avg rating — 657 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
38	Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us Or the Environment by Michael Huesemann 3.98 avg rating — 99 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