Geoffrey West's work on the laws of life and metabolism might provide some insight. He shows that adaptations tend toward crashes so that survival requires con

Geoffrey West's work on the laws of life and metabolism might provide some insight. He shows that adaptations tend toward crashes so that survival requires constant ongoing adaptation to avoid self disruption. This means it is highly likely that advanced civilizations will tend to crash whether it is from their own consumption of resources or catastrophic changes that go beyond capacity for adaptation.