Post by @fasnix
"Civilisations are material systems organised around energy. Their scale, complexity, and population reflect how much energy is available and how it is structured. When the energy available can no longer sustain that level of organisation, contraction follows.
We are not running out of energy. We are losing the ability to organise it.
Stability reflects continuous energy throughput, not permanence.
This is why all civilisations collapse.
It is built in.
What varies is the distance between the peak of the civilisation and the conditions that remain after decline.
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"The World Isn’t Ending. It’s Stopping Working.
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To see this clearly, the essay moves through three cases: early agrarian civilisation in Mesopotamia, the imperial system of Rome, and modern industrial civilisation."
https://adrianlambert.substack.com/p/the-world-isnt-ending-its-stopping
