How to spot if society is DOOMED: Researchers reveal the signs that show civilization is set to collapse

Read The Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr Joseph Tainter first published in 1988 for the most comprehensive thesis on the subject. It will change your world view completely. Available from Cambridge University Press in its New Studies in Archeology series.

"Researchers reveal the signs that show civilization is set to collapse" One sure sign: both Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner stop taking "selfies" and posting them online.

Seemingly overnight - you can tell when a DM hack has written something that wasn't a cut and paste job from the original article.

They start voting for Donald Trump.

Moderation seems to be a key for keeping things stable but too many people find that boring and have to throw a spanner in the works just for the hell of it.

Basically just when people are being subversive all the time.

Didn't Neolithic communities descend of the European football championship? Perhaps not as they weren't bright enough to form any type of society.

It must be great to have such a meaningless well paid job

" Sustainable Scientists " ?. Engineers do and Environmentalists " think " they do. Every Municipal " Tip " should be run by Engineers; ( Civil / Mechanical / Electrical / Chemical et al ) who do what they say on the tin. Sorting out domestic refuse in the home is not the same as recycling manufactured non bio degradable material for re-use.One bag / bin and one recycling plant would be the most efficient way to avert an impending environmental disaster. Food waste could provide the methane to power the machinery. All that is required is for Social Scientists to rediscover the value of Common Sense.Then again....pigs might still learn to fly.

Just read or watch the news..

The West especially is showing several signs of civilizational exhaustion.

If you were searching in your study with much eagerness things you/d like to find then you had it.But the most representative example for this article is the wellknown fate of Roman empire with its al lpowerness,greatness,justice administration ,notorious slogan:"breads and spectacles!"Which had fallen in ruines on the peak of its prosperity.The glorious society of consumption is doomed as happened before in all times.But the next fall will be more cathastrophic than ever.

How to spot if society is DOOMED... when you see people everywhere taking SELFIES, BELFIES and seeing those SELFIE STICKS.

The conclusion looks like it was written by a politician rather than a scientist.

Well there we go.

An article full of padding and very little substance, would have been much shorter if it wasn't for all the repeated phrases.

Appears my estate is doomed within the next fortnight...

Corbyn wins the election.

A quick glance at the sidebar of shame is the strongest indicator yet.

Well that was informative in away that really wasn't, basically they got too big then started to die off for one reason or another strange that isn't it.