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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 75,635 ratings — published 2004
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,569 ratings — published 1988
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.46 — 457 ratings — published 1980
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,708 ratings — published 1993
The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 812 ratings — published 2008
Comment tout peut s'effondrer : Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,193 ratings — published 2015
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,534 ratings — published 2019
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,871 ratings — published 1972
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,208 ratings — published 2006
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.05 — 514 ratings — published 2012
The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.91 — 303 ratings — published 2013
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 607 ratings — published 2008
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,972 ratings — published 2015
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 14,233 ratings — published 2014
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,162 ratings — published 2003
Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.17 — 339 ratings — published 2016
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,374 ratings — published 2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 82,028 ratings — published 2014
The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.16 — 656 ratings — published 2011
Apologies to the Grandchildren: Reflections on Our Ecological Predicament, Its Deeper Causes, and Its Political Consequences (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.16 — 43 ratings — published
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,111 ratings — published 2017
The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid (The Frontiers Collection)
by (shelved 10 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.19 — 63 ratings — published
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 106,572 ratings — published 1992
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 4,115 ratings — published 2009
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,264 ratings — published 2025
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 45,440 ratings — published 2020
Deep Adaptation (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.06 — 176 ratings — published 2018
Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.82 — 313 ratings — published 2009
Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,167 ratings — published
Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 124 ratings — published 2023
Une autre fin du monde est possible (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.75 — 271 ratings — published
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
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avg rating 4.32 — 93,224 ratings — published 1998
Decline and Fall: The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.28 — 163 ratings — published 2014
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 16,340 ratings — published 1983
Yol (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,086,368 ratings — published 2006
The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 332 ratings — published 2009
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 472,413 ratings — published 1997
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,544 ratings — published 2023
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,035 ratings — published 2022
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.19 — 953 ratings — published 2019
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 712 ratings — published 2020
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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avg rating 3.99 — 123,830 ratings — published 1959
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 43,906 ratings — published 2007
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.06 — 855 ratings — published 2003
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.96 — 922 ratings — published 2011
Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.87 — 381 ratings — published 2007
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.38 — 610 ratings — published
The Deluge (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 7,023 ratings — published 2023
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 9,998 ratings — published 2020
All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.77 — 363 ratings — published 2019
“Since a large part of our best biological talents are superfluous in the modern, complicated technological game we play with the environment, we are victims of increasing spiritual unemployment. The value of technological advances for human life must therefore be evaluated according to their ability to afford us increasing spiritual activity—without at the same time destroying the nature that gives us the opportunity to practice these activities. The limits of proper technological development are unclear, but I would venture that the earliest flint scrapers were a good discovery.”
― The Last Messiah
― The Last Messiah
“You're still a child. It. sounds like you've talked about this before, but I really want you to think about it. This is a magnificent country. No other country anywhere in the world is as prosperous. Sure, overseas travel is a little restricted, but the quality of our exports is second to none. When our government boasts about our per-capita GDP, that's no mere propaganda. It's the truth. We've the highest in the world. But the thing is, and listen to this now, that prosperity can only be achieved through a strong government and a people united around it. A certain level of control is a constant necessity. Otherwise, we'd decay into some third-rate country, like the American Empire. You've heard what things are like over there, haven't you? The country is a total mess, rife with drugs and violence and homosexuality. It's surviving only on its past legacy, but it'll collapse soon enough.”
― Battle Royale: Remastered by Koushun Takami (8-May-2014) Paperback
― Battle Royale: Remastered by Koushun Takami (8-May-2014) Paperback
