Collapse Non-Fiction

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Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1)
Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1) 4.17 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How 3.93 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial Society and Its Future 3.85 avg rating — 11,952 ratings
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Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change 4.45 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,871 ratings
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Deep Adaptation
Deep Adaptation 4.08 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update 4.21 avg rating — 1,726 ratings
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The Collapse of Complex Societies
The Collapse of Complex Societies 4.15 avg rating — 1,449 ratings
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29,325 ratings
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How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for our Times
How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for our Times 4.16 avg rating — 1,103 ratings
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The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age
The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age 4.18 avg rating — 793 ratings
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Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead 4.19 avg rating — 322 ratings
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The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption 4.19 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail 4.05 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Another End of the World is Possible: Living the Collapse (and Not Merely Surviving It)
Another End of the World is Possible: Living the Collapse (and Not Merely Surviving It) 3.75 avg rating — 253 ratings
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The Limits to Growth
The Limits to Growth 4.17 avg rating — 835 ratings
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Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence 3.89 avg rating — 2,132 ratings
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The Precipice
The Precipice
by: Toby Ord
3.96 avg rating — 4,779 ratings
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wétiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism
Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wétiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism 4.29 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How 3.93 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,091 ratings
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The Limits to Growth Revisited
The Limits to Growth Revisited
by: Ugo Bardi
4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,312 ratings
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Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance
Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance 4.14 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
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This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond
This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond 3.98 avg rating — 181 ratings
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The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us
The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us 4.25 avg rating — 467 ratings
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Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization 4.11 avg rating — 2,202 ratings
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States 4.13 avg rating — 4,577 ratings
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The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses 3.89 avg rating — 13,341 ratings
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The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind
The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind 4.17 avg rating — 835 ratings
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No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies
No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies 3.76 avg rating — 376 ratings
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Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future
Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future 4.09 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Too Smart for our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament of Humankind
Too Smart for our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament of Humankind 4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life 3.90 avg rating — 2,841 ratings
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No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies
No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies 4.32 avg rating — 177 ratings
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The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future
The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future 4.13 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States 4.13 avg rating — 4,577 ratings
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The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment
The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment 4.17 avg rating — 637 ratings
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The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress
The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress 4.14 avg rating — 806 ratings
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The Good American: A Situation Report for Citizens
The Good American: A Situation Report for Citizens really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind
Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind 3.54 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back 3.72 avg rating — 2,699 ratings
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The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit
The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit 3.90 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt
Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt 4.22 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
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When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation
When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation 4.62 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Energy and Civilization: A History
Energy and Civilization: A History 4.09 avg rating — 3,926 ratings
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Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us Or the Environment
Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us Or the Environment 3.97 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity 4.02 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet 4.06 avg rating — 2,056 ratings
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Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency 4.18 avg rating — 647 ratings
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Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline 3.83 avg rating — 1,837 ratings
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With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change 4.01 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization 3.76 avg rating — 1,910 ratings
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century 3.83 avg rating — 3,161 ratings
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The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines 4.16 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Requiem for a Species
Requiem for a Species 4.08 avg rating — 250 ratings
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A Farewell to Ice
A Farewell to Ice 4.33 avg rating — 313 ratings
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The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World 4.18 avg rating — 4,916 ratings
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On Grief and Grieving
On Grief and Grieving 4.32 avg rating — 4,466 ratings
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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet 3.95 avg rating — 4,184 ratings
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Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World
Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World 3.84 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Climate Wars
Climate Wars 3.86 avg rating — 652 ratings
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning 4.12 avg rating — 6,764 ratings
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Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul 4.34 avg rating — 803 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance 4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating — 77,276 ratings
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The Ends of the World
The Ends of the World 4.29 avg rating — 5,874 ratings
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The Future of Life
The Future of Life 4.15 avg rating — 3,233 ratings
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Can Life Prevail?
Can Life Prevail? 3.77 avg rating — 640 ratings
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Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet 4.08 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? 4.21 avg rating — 37,052 ratings
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Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education
Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education 3.90 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude
The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude 3.86 avg rating — 193 ratings
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The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture 4.33 avg rating — 6,465 ratings
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The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity
The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity 3.81 avg rating — 1,882 ratings
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The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid
The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid
by: Ugo Bardi
4.16 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Apologies to the Grandchildren: Reflections on Our Ecological Predicament, Its Deeper Causes, and Its Political Consequences
Apologies to the Grandchildren: Reflections on Our Ecological Predicament, Its Deeper Causes, and Its Political Consequences 4.27 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Thinking In Systems: A Primer 4.19 avg rating — 20,767 ratings