> (maybe in a hundred years, but if that truly happens, there will be no way to fix it) He also makes the point that collapse often happens over the course of

> (maybe in a hundred years, but if that truly happens, there will be no way to fix it) He also makes the point that collapse often happens over the course of many generations. ~100 years for the bronze age collapse and ~300 years for the collapse of the Roman Empire. I think this is a key point because it is something we don't intuit easily. He then goes on to say that the loss of knowledge that results in such collapses is often the result of a lack of generational transfer of knowledge (hence the slow collapse). This is a well known problem, the Bus Factor. If we want to prevent the collapse of our civilization we need to vastly increase that number on a societal level.