A major bias we have in thinking about collapse is the one we get from fiction, like disaster movies. Most collapses are very gradual from the perspective of li

A major bias we have in thinking about collapse is the one we get from fiction, like disaster movies. Most collapses are very gradual from the perspective of living people. They occur over at least generations. Extremely rapid apocalyptic collapse is very rare and usually caused by things like natural disasters, disease, or wars.