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I think you underestimate how efficient and fragile the civilization is. If you take a modern city and stop transportation of products into the city, in a few d
by dchichkov 7y ago
I think you underestimate how efficient and fragile the civilization is. If you take a modern city and stop transportation of products into the city, in a few days there'd be nothing to eat there.
- nine_k 7y agoYes. But we also underestimate how many people in Africa and even east Asia live not in efficient cities, but off the land, in poverty but also in relative independence.
- dchichkov 7y agoThere was a civilization collapse before, around 500 C.E. Cities abandoned, books burned, technology forgotten. It took 1000 years to get back to the level of that civilization. People living off the land only have so much time in the day. Some of the causes of collapse included military spending, constant wars, erosion of traditional polytheistic values by intolerant religion, government corruption and political instability, lead pollution, soil erosion and deforestation.