We’re At The Peak, Prepare For Collapse
Have another drink as Rome burns
A decade ago I hired a researcher to pull some information for me. I paid her a small sum to find information on what happened to the people after their society collapsed.
For example, what happened to the Mayan people after their civilization collapsed? Likewise, where did the Ancestral Puebloan populations go after they abandoned their pueblo dwellings?
“Shitting” where we eat all over the world is killing the environment.
She found some information, it was inconclusive, but it got my mind turning. What would happen if our society, our civilization, and our way of life collapsed?
As a former civil engineer, my team and I always joked about the toilets not flushing in New York City. We’d say that the place would be abandoned in days. We’d laugh at how society would finally pay us the respect we desire because we kept your shit flowing away from you and brought you clean water to drink.
Then I watched in horror as Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, cutting off escape for people who couldn’t get out. In a matter of three days, a modern US city collapsed. No drinking water, no food, and no security. Gangs roamed the streets, looting happened, and I’m sure people were assaulted.
It showed me how delicate and thin the line between civilized society and breakdown is.