How to spot if society is DOOMED: Researchers reveal the signs that show civilization is set to collapse
如何得知社会一定走向灭亡?研究者透露,有这几个暗示,文明必定灭亡
Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com
Fabio Carletti
It is about time we humans disappear from the face of hearth and start all over again in a million years or so, "we'll be back", "just having a break" type of thing,Ulya
Many here blaming the tories or liberals or trump or migrants or whatever for the decay of western culture, none blaming themselves. Why is that? you don't think your apathy is to blame? complaining on the DM does not keep your society strong, nor does making excuses for not doing anything. Maybe better if you look at your only laziness first before you blame others. I grew up in England (not my choice) but left about 10 years ago to move home, I come to your country often since and every time think how soft you have got, no sense of country, no sense of 'for the motherland', maybe that a good place to start making a change? maybe I am just ramblingnearlysixtyReply toUlya
I think you will find that most Brits are extremely patriotic, but we are a fairly undemonstrative people so tend not to show it. The fact that it is pretty much frowned upon to wave our flag doesn't help. I quite envy the yanks for the simple fact that most of them have a flagpole in their garden - and use it!UlyaReply toUlya
@ nearlysixty - do I assume that is your age? if so then maybe that explain your view? you grew up in a time when Britain was still Great and it was normal to think of yourself and be proud of being British? I am 25, many of my English friends the same age, and many think of themselves as English simply because that is where they are born, but don't see past that, but many also voted ín', maybe that explain it? sorry I don't have answers only questions. Raise your flag, F what other people think.@ goodplanet - we all die, we are all pawns in a bigger game, for me 'for the motherland' is maybe the only good reason left. To keep Russian free, to protect the Russian people, that is a death with honour and reason, do die for corporate greed is just a wasteHard Work Kills
The Roman Empire thrived on continual growth for centuries but eventually succumbed to the same diminishing returns that have taken hold in the West since Thatcher introduced Neo-Liberalism. The main reason societies fail is that they never learn, and it must be a universal principle otherwise the recent survey of 100000 galaxies that found zero candidates for galaxy wide civilisations would have found more than zero.Thaddeus Lovelock
We can't keep consuming resources at the present rate, and with an exploding population. If we continue to do so civilization will be threatened.DavidOfWiltsReply toThaddeus Lovelock
Ironically the biggest cause of increased use of resources is the requirement for recycling causing us to produce products with an extremely short lifespan as the recycled materials are inconsistent quality. This makes for premature just out of guarantee failure to be a common occurrence now. I have just thrown a £100 camera because a tiny plastic tab that keeps the battery compartment shut failed and replacement is more than a new camera. A look under a microscope shows a different plastic seam where the failure occurred showing some recycled material was used.moonlightshadowReply todjconrad818
djconrad818...I feel sorry for your country as you are now between a rock and a hard place...Trump or Clinton....you're in a worse position that us in the UK...at least Theresa May sounds as if she's got her head screwed on !....Good luck to you...sadly the outcome will affect all of us !Tweediepie
Australia is on the up , whilst the established nations are sinking fast. Europe, Britain and yes America too. In 50 years time Australia will be the powerhouse. Britain is trying hard to survive. Europe is doomed.DWalla
First symptom is when you have Hillary and Trump running for President. Pretty strong sign that society is doomed.The Knock
You forgot to mention Brexit, its been blamed for practically everything else, more popular than Global Warming........hang on it must be a contributor to that as well!!Gnarly
It's nothing worse than the world deserves, we've destroyed our planet with the intention of getting one up on our neighbours and are quite happy to see others suffer whilst sneering at them, I reckon we are going to get our just dessert'sfok off
I blame yachts - having to have a bigger yacht with a bigger helicopter pad has sucked philanthropy out of the system into personal wealth gain. That gain has become blinkered with only eyes on one short sighted goal a better yacht than anyone else. The sysmbol of the worlds elite is dragging us all down with it