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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,008 ratings — published 2004
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,592 ratings — published 1988
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.46 — 458 ratings — published 1980
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 302,321 ratings — published 1993
The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 813 ratings — published 2008
Comment tout peut s'effondrer : Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,199 ratings — published 2015
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,892 ratings — published 1972
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,653 ratings — published 2019
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,207 ratings — published 2006
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.05 — 518 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)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.96 — 610 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 — 1,981 ratings — published 2015
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.75 — 14,632 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
Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 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 — 2,382 ratings — published 2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,778 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 — 657 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 4.15 — 44 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 — 5,133 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 — 106,948 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 — 4,155 ratings — published 2009
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,380 ratings — published 2025
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.86 — 46,278 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)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,165 ratings — published
Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 126 ratings — published 2023
Une autre fin du monde est possible (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.76 — 271 ratings — published
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.32 — 94,796 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 4.29 — 164 ratings — published 2014
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,386 ratings — published 1983
Yol (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,096,815 ratings — published 2006
The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.07 — 332 ratings — published 2009
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.04 — 475,420 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 — 8,620 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 — 14,131 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 — 956 ratings — published 2019
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.17 — 718 ratings — published 2020
Ages of Discord (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.10 — 439 ratings — published 2016
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 124,693 ratings — published 1959
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.81 — 44,018 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 — 856 ratings — published 2003
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.96 — 923 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
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.35 — 58,957 ratings — published 2024
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.38 — 622 ratings — published
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,128 ratings — published 2023
“When the world feels too heavy, remember: even stars are born from collapse.”
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“Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Is Not
On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron star
would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons
equals the collective weight of every animal
on earth. Including the insects. Times three.
Six billion tons sounds impossible
until I consider how it is to swallow grief—
just a teaspoon and one might as well have consumed
a neutron star. How dense it is,
how it carries inside it the memory of collapse.
How difficult it is to move then.
How impossible to believe that anything
could lift that weight.
There are many reasons to treat each other
with great tenderness. One is
the sheer miracle that we are here together
on a planet surrounded by dying stars.
One is that we cannot see what
anyone else has swallowed.”
― All the Honey
On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron star
would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons
equals the collective weight of every animal
on earth. Including the insects. Times three.
Six billion tons sounds impossible
until I consider how it is to swallow grief—
just a teaspoon and one might as well have consumed
a neutron star. How dense it is,
how it carries inside it the memory of collapse.
How difficult it is to move then.
How impossible to believe that anything
could lift that weight.
There are many reasons to treat each other
with great tenderness. One is
the sheer miracle that we are here together
on a planet surrounded by dying stars.
One is that we cannot see what
anyone else has swallowed.”
― All the Honey
