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This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment.

Collapse, in this context, refers to the significant loss of an established level or complexity towards a much simpler state. It can occur differently within many areas, orderly or chaotically, and be willing or unwilling. It does not necessarily imply human extinction or a singular, global event. Although, the longer the duration, the more it resembles a ‘decline’ instead of collapse.

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Advanced Economies Will Be Especially Hurt by Energy Limits (ourfiniteworld.com)

submitted 8 months ago by eleitl@lemmy.ml to c/collapse@lemmy.ml

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[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Modern economies depend squarely on the availability of energy. Removing energy sources without appropriate replacements will strangle everything.

That's not to say that we don't need to phase out fossil fuels (we do).

The greatest irony is perhaps that we instead of replacing our own dirty power plants with clean ones as they age, and funneling extra resources to developing countries to make sure they can start out with clean systems, are rushing to tear down fully functioning machines and simultaneously pushing developing countries into the fossil fuel trap.