Well, that's not strictly true. There have been plenty of societies that have collapsed in the past, if not ones of which we have been a part. Noting that our

Well, that's not strictly true. There have been plenty of societies that have collapsed in the past, if not ones of which we have been a part. Noting that our society hasn't collapsed so far and using that to infer that opinions like this have no merit is one mother of a sampling bias.