> If true, why didn't civilization collapse into Mad Max during the great depression? Perhaps you've seen those old photos of lines of people standing outside

> If true, why didn't civilization collapse into Mad Max during the great depression? Perhaps you've seen those old photos of lines of people standing outside soup kitchens? Might I remind you that there was no global ecosystem or global climate collapse in the 1930s? Such things have happened on a local scale in the past, before there was such a thing as "global civilization," resulting in the collapse of individual civilizations, but this time really is different.