Thread by @SteB777

@DoctorVive This is an excellent article, but I go much further. I say these actuaries are totally underestimating the likelihood of total system collapse, and the economy collapsing to nothing, in the near future. No one is studying the stability of our system.

1/pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@DoctorVive I am not trying to be alarmist, but I noted a complete gap in expert thinking, many decades ago. The robustness, and stability of our whole system, is taken for granted. As if at best, it would only slowly decline. There is little understanding it is a process.
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@DoctorVive At the moment, the only glue that holds our societies together, is the common pursuit of economic growth. Even a slight slow down, let alone collapse of it, introduces massive financial, economic, political and societal instability.
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@DoctorVive How in its present form could our system function, if economic growth, stopped, or the economy started to seriously decline? What would hold our societies together, when the only current glue that does that, is economic growth, which cannot be maintained for much longer?
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@DoctorVive For years I have been trying to find research into this. I could find none, and had to assume, that it didn't exist. the paper I link to at the top, seems to confirm my impression. That there is no one looking into this.
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@DoctorVive I must make it clear, that I am not a doomer, and it is my belief, that this collapse can be prevented. If we change the glue that holds our civilization together from economic growth, to the pursuit of the common good, people supporting each other.
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@DoctorVive In my proposed change in focus, in the face of climate and ecological adversity, instead of facing collapse, humanity would work together, to adapt, and stop it getting worse. Humans are an innately cooperative species. Competition is artificially induced.
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