)Tj 36 -16 TD 0.044 Tc (A society in a depletion crisis does not inevitably proceed to catabolic )Tj -36 -16 TD 0.053 Tc (collapse. Thus Britain in )Tj T* (the late pre-Roman Iron Age, for example, had achieved a stable and flourishing )Tj T* 0.037 Tc (agricultural society with nascent urban centers and international trade connections, )Tj T* 0.057 Tc (while the same area remained depopulated, impoverished, and politically chaotic for )Tj T* 0.083 Tc (centuries following the collapse of imperial authority \(Snyder 2003\). This is a book with a lot of surprises, a lot of twists and turns.

Since depletion requires )Tj 0 -16 TD 0.053 Tc (progressively greater investments of capital in production, the loss of capital affects )Tj T* 0.035 Tc (production more seriously than in an equivalent maintenance crisis. Though resource depletion played a limited role, the maintenance crises of )Tj T* 0.064 Tc (imperial China were self-limiting and resulted in contraction to more modest levels )Tj T* 0.07 Tc (of population and sociopolitical organization, rather than the total collapse of the )Tj T* 0 Tc (society. Besides this, the book is a rundown on current demographic trends and what they mean for the world over the next century. )Tj -209 -15 TD -0.019 Tc (Elvin, M. \(1993\). That is why I picked up this book, with the provocative subtitle. )Tj /F3 12 Tf 180 0 TD -0.052 Tc (Feasting with mine enemy: rank and exchange among )Tj -144 -15 TD -0.067 Tc (Northwest Coast societies)Tj /F2 12 Tf 123 0 TD 0 Tc (. Without )Tj T* 0.038 Tc (income from new conquests, the maintenance costs of empire proved unsustainable, )Tj T* 0.089 Tc (and a catabolic cycle followed rapidly. Thus, unless all of a society\325s )Tj T* 0.023 Tc (necessary resources have an unlimited replenishment rate, C\(p\) cannot increase )Tj T* 0.06 Tc (indefinitely because d\(R\) will eventually exceed r\(R\), leading to depletion and )Tj T* 0.062 Tc (exponential increases in capital required to maintain C\(p\) at any given level. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Many of the examples he cites, however, fail to )Tj T* 0.07 Tc (fit this description, but occurred over a period of centuries rather than decades \(see )Tj T* 0.057 Tc (Table 1\) and involved an extended process of progressive disintegration rather than a )Tj T* 0.049 Tc (rapid shift from an unsustainable state to a sustainable one.

)Tj -228 -15 TD 0 Tc (----- \(1999\). Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature, China, the West, and Their First Encounter, Political Thought in the Twentieth Century, A Sociological Appraisal of Modern Industrialism, The Abundance of Extraterrestrial Civilizations. How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam Is Dying Too) is a mind expanding peek into the likely political future of our planet." )Tj /F3 12 Tf 91 0 TD -0.06 Tc (History of the later Roman empire)Tj /F2 12 Tf 163 0 TD -0.078 Tc (. Rating: With demand for capital rising as the supply of capital falls, )Tj T* 0.062 Tc (C\(p\) tends to decrease faster than M\(p\) and perpetuate the crisis. New York: Academic Press. Fertility-obsessed maniac. \324Devolution\325 as an opportunity to test the \324synergism hypothesis\325 and a cybernetic )Tj 36 -15 TD 0.104 Tc (theory of political systems. This allows a return to a )Tj T* 0.056 Tc (steady state or the start of a new anabolic cycle once the conversion of capital to )Tj T* 0.073 Tc (waste brings M\(p\) back below C\(p\). \(1974\).

The quality and quantity of new capital )Tj 0 -16 TD 0.051 Tc (created by production are functions of the resources and existing capital used in )Tj T* 0.05 Tc (production. ISBN: Category: Political Science. ''In How Civilizations Die, David Goldman muses on population trends and religion with a breathtaking depth, originality, and panache.

)Tj /F3 12 Tf 123 0 TD -0.047 Tc (Overshoot: the ecological basis of revolutionary change)Tj /F2 12 Tf 268 0 TD 0 Tc (. Meanwhile )Tj T* 0.092 Tc (further production, even at a diminished rate, requires further use of depleted )Tj T* 0.053 Tc (resources, exacerbating the impact of depletion and the need for increased capital to )Tj T* 0.081 Tc (maintain production. )Tj -58 -15 TD -0.07 Tc (Duncan, R.C.

)Tj -36 -15 TD 0 Tc (Rosman, A., and Rubel, P.G. )Tj -182 -15 TD 0.037 Tc (Odum, E. \(1969\).

Cultural and political factors may also make )Tj T* 0.065 Tc (efforts to avoid catabolic collapse difficult to accomplish, or indeed to contemplate. A society in which depletion is advanced and M\(p\) )Tj T* 0.07 Tc (rapidly increasing relative to C\(p\), though, may not be able to escape catabolic )Tj T* 0.042 Tc (collapse even if such steps are taken. )Tj /F3 12 Tf 218 0 TD -0.119 Tc (Archaeology)Tj /F2 12 Tf 60 0 TD ( )Tj /F3 12 Tf 3 0 TD 0 Tc (50:6)Tj /F2 12 Tf 22 0 TD 0.084 Tc (, p. 12-17. I've been reading "birth dearth" books since at least the 1980s; this one offered something new, first because he covers more ancient history than average, second because he covers the Islamic nations (granted, a lot of those I've read were written before the trends there were clear), and, third, because of his analysis of why Islam nations are dying, which I thought an interesting and likely thesis. 1 0 obj << /Creator (AppleWorks 6) /CreationDate (D:20050222133757Z) /Subject () /Title (How Civilizations Fall: A Theory of Catabolic Collapse) /Author (John Michael Greer) /Producer (Acrobat PDFWriter 4.05 for Power Macintosh) /Keywords (collapse, ecology, resources, succession) /ModDate (D:20050222134007+01'00') >> endobj 2 0 obj [ /PDF /Text ] endobj 3 0 obj << /Pages 55 0 R /Type /Catalog /DefaultGray 56 0 R /DefaultRGB 57 0 R /OpenAction 58 0 R /ViewerPreferences << /FitWindow true /CenterWindow true /DisplayDocTitle true >> /Metadata 59 0 R >> endobj 4 0 obj << /Type /Page /Parent 5 0 R /Resources << /Font << /F1 7 0 R /F2 9 0 R >> /ProcSet 2 0 R >> /Contents 10 0 R >> endobj 5 0 obj << /Kids [ 4 0 R 12 0 R 15 0 R 18 0 R 21 0 R 24 0 R ] /Count 6 /Type /Pages /Parent 55 0 R >> endobj 6 0 obj << /Type /FontDescriptor /FontName /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT /Flags 32802 /FontBBox [ -250 -188 1000 875 ] /MissingWidth 250 /StemV 156 /StemH 31 /ItalicAngle 0 /CapHeight 656 /XHeight 437 /Ascent 875 /Descent -188 /Leading 63 /MaxWidth 1000 /AvgWidth 554 /Style << /Panose <050102020600000000000000>>> >> endobj 7 0 obj << /Type /Font /Subtype /TrueType /Name /F1 /BaseFont /TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT /FirstChar 0 /LastChar 255 /Widths [ 0 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 0 250 778 778 778 0 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 0 778 778 250 333 555 500 500 1000 833 278 333 333 500 570 250 333 250 278 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 333 333 570 570 570 500 930 722 667 722 722 667 611 778 778 389 500 778 667 944 722 778 611 778 722 556 667 722 722 1000 722 722 667 333 278 333 581 500 333 500 556 444 556 444 333 500 556 278 333 556 278 833 556 500 556 556 444 389 333 556 500 722 500 500 444 394 220 394 520 778 722 722 722 667 722 778 722 500 500 500 500 500 500 444 444 444 444 444 278 278 278 278 556 500 500 500 500 500 556 556 556 556 500 400 500 500 500 350 540 556 747 747 1000 333 333 549 1000 778 713 549 549 549 500 576 494 713 823 549 274 300 330 768 722 500 500 333 570 549 500 549 612 500 500 1000 250 722 722 778 1000 722 500 1000 500 500 333 333 549 494 500 722 167 500 333 333 556 556 500 250 333 500 1000 722 667 722 667 667 389 389 389 389 778 778 778 778 722 722 722 278 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 ] /Encoding /MacRomanEncoding /FontDescriptor 6 0 R >> endobj 8 0 obj << /Type /FontDescriptor /FontName /TimesNewRomanPSMT /Flags 32802 /FontBBox [ -250 -231 1000 923 ] /MissingWidth 250 /StemV 93 /StemH 31 /ItalicAngle 0 /CapHeight 656 /XHeight 437 /Ascent 923 /Descent -231 /Leading 77 /MaxWidth 1000 /AvgWidth 536 /Style << /Panose <050102020600000000000000>>> >> endobj 9 0 obj << /Type /Font /Subtype /TrueType /Name /F2 /BaseFont /TimesNewRomanPSMT /FirstChar 0 /LastChar 255 /Widths [ 0 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 0 250 778 778 778 0 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 778 0 778 778 250 333 408 500 500 833 778 180 333 333 500 564 250 333 250 278 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 278 278 564 564 564 444 921 722 667 667 722 611 556 722 722 333 389 722 611 889 722 722 556 722 667 556 611 722 722 944 722 722 611 333 278 333 469 500 333 444 500 444 500 444 333 500 500 278 278 500 278 778 500 500 500 500 333 389 278 500 500 722 500 500 444 480 200 480 541 778 722 722 667 611 722 722 722 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 444 278 278 278 278 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 400 500 500 500 350 453 500 760 760 980 333 333 549 889 722 713 549 549 549 500 576 494 713 823 549 274 276 310 768 667 500 444 333 564 549 500 549 612 500 500 1000 250 722 722 722 889 722 500 1000 444 444 333 333 549 494 500 722 167 500 333 333 556 556 500 250 333 444 1000 722 611 722 611 611 333 333 333 333 722 722 778 722 722 722 722 278 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 333 ] /Encoding /MacRomanEncoding /FontDescriptor 8 0 R >> endobj 10 0 obj << /Length 11 0 R >> stream

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