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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,737 ratings — published 2004
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,501 ratings — published 1988
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.45 — 450 ratings — published 1980
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.19 — 264,879 ratings — published 1993
The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 804 ratings — published 2008
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,894 ratings — published 2019
Comment tout peut s'effondrer : Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,147 ratings — published 2015
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,820 ratings — published 1972
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,206 ratings — published 2006
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.05 — 495 ratings — published 2012
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.97 — 601 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 3.75 — 1,945 ratings — published 2015
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,844 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 — 3,163 ratings — published 2003
The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.91 — 297 ratings — published 2013
Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.19 — 330 ratings — published 2016
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,494 ratings — published 2014
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,351 ratings — published 2014
The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.16 — 647 ratings — published 2011
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 — 5,020 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 4.17 — 60 ratings — published
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 104,543 ratings — published 1992
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,929 ratings — published 2009
Apologies to the Grandchildren: Reflections on Our Ecological Predicament, Its Deeper Causes, and Its Political Consequences (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 39 ratings — published
Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.84 — 313 ratings — published 2009
Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,168 ratings — published
Deep Adaptation (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.07 — 168 ratings — published 2018
Une autre fin du monde est possible (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.75 — 258 ratings — published
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.32 — 84,738 ratings — published 1998
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,180 ratings — published 1983
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,039,618 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.04 — 458,518 ratings — published 1997
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.13 — 594 ratings — published
Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.10 — 113 ratings — published 2023
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 4.18 — 933 ratings — published 2019
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,528 ratings — published 2020
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,662 ratings — published 1959
Decline and Fall: The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.29 — 156 ratings — published 2014
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,407 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 — 844 ratings — published 2003
Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.87 — 381 ratings — published 2007
The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.07 — 331 ratings — published 2009
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,162 ratings — published 2023
The Deluge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,227 ratings — published 2023
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,325 ratings — published 2022
All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.78 — 354 ratings — published 2019
The Water Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,183 ratings — published 2015
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.07 — 615,486 ratings — published 2014
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.19 — 682 ratings — published 2020
Ages of Discord (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.11 — 414 ratings — published 2016
“Homo Defessus – Never before in human history has so many people considered their everyday tiredness (because they are so busy and have so much to do) as a badge of honor. We are living in the era of Homo Defessus, the exhausted man. I wonder if the historians of the distant future (if there will be any) will look back to our epoch and decide to give it a name: “The Dark Ages”, because for the first time humans, not only deliberately sought exhaustion, but they were also convinced that this mentality is their pride, an indisputable token of greatness.”
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“The COVID-19 pandemic is going to look like nothing when compared to the collapse of the global food supply system that ongoing climate change will bring.”
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