One (of the many) problems with predicting a societal collapse is the word itself, "collapse", being incredibly vague. What would define a collapse? For most it

One (of the many) problems with predicting a societal collapse is the word itself, "collapse", being incredibly vague. What would define a collapse? For most it seems to conjure up visions of apocalyptic disasters. But it could potentially be a long, drawn out change to the trajectories of many metrics surrounding human population and economic activity. Who knows? I doubt we will even be able to define what a "collapse" is, let alone predict when that collapse might occur using modeling techniques.