Societal collapses due to populations reaching "environmental limits" are not the norm (social failures and epidemic disease are; Butzer 2012. Collapse, environment, and society. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 3632-3639).
"Calamities Without Collapse: Environment, Economy and Society in China, ca. 1800 1949". In Questioning Collapse, edited by Patricia McAnany and Norman Yoffee.
I know that it is hard to make tiny soldiers on an iPhone screen look good, but the Quantum Collapse environment could have looked much better.
Hmmm...perhaps my post seems somewhat gloomy in a post banking collapse environment, and the hardships endured - albeit relatively short - would only amount having to do without a few iPods and plasma screen TVs (oh, I nearly forgot, the government are going to ban them!) for a while or, quite possibly, postponing the biennial car purchase.
Extra-terrestrial landscapes or a collapsed rubble environment, ubiquitous to war and disaster zones, will contain regions of highly rugged yet relatively level ground.
An apartment block falls to the ground, a hotel catches fire, a train station explodes, a bridge collapses: the built environment that had risen so recently and triumphantly around them had already begun to crumble.
Among the report's key observations: Trafficking occurs when a child's protective environment collapses from such things as conflict, economic hardship, and discrimination.
Due to increasing political instability around the turn of the century, however, the macroeconomic environment collapsed with a 48% decline in gross domestic product between 2000 and 2008, hyperinflation peaking at 231 million % in 2008, and the unemployment rate reaching 80%.
The 90-year-old group, famous for its Nipper the dog trademark, came close to collapse this year after the weak consumer environment coupled with collapsing demand for CDs and DVDs resulted in growing debts.
In the extreme environment of the collapsing star, the phenomenology of these neutrinos is very rich, and, in many respects, unique.
The inner environment of the collapsing bubble (gas phase), where high temperatures and pressures are produced and causing the pyrolysis of water into H and OH radicals, and.
