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Why Democracies Collapse

06/11/2013 12:55
Abraham Diskin Abstract Most studies of democratic stability are based within either the socioeconomic or the politico-institutional tradition, but usually not on both. This article combines the two approaches. In all, 11 variables associated with democratic stability are divided into four...

The Lost Lands of Mu and Lemuria

06/11/2013 12:49
By Brian Haughton Lemuria and Mu are interchangeable names given to a lost land believed to have been located somewhere in either the southern Pacific or Indian Oceans. This ancient continent was apparently the home of an advanced and highly spiritual culture, perhaps the mother race of all...

The Lost Lemuria

06/11/2013 12:43
Most people know about the existence of Atlantis.. However, most people do not know about Lemuria or the Legend of Mu. The legend of Mu is found on islands all over the Pacific Ocean. For thousands of years the Polynesians have handed down the story of a continent in the Pacific that was motherland...

The Atlantis Mystery

06/11/2013 12:41
by Eleanor Van Zandt and Roy Stemman Of all the world's unsolved mysteries, Atlantis is probably the biggest. Said to have been a huge island continent with an extraordinary civilization, situated in the Atlantic Ocean, it is reported to have vanished from the face of the earth in a day and a...

'Lost' City of Atlantis

06/11/2013 12:37
Benjamin Radford, LiveScience Contributor Atlantis is a legendary "lost" island subcontinent often idealized as an advanced, utopian society holding wisdom that could bring world peace. The idea of Atlantis has captivated dreamers, occultists, and New Agers for generations. In the 1800s, mystic...

The Collapse of Complex Societies (review)

06/11/2013 12:32
by Akshay Ahuja This brings us to The Collapse of Complex Societies, Joseph Tainter’s attempt to synthesise all of the theories of decline and fall into a single model. Tainter’s argument is that investing in complexity inevitability generates decreasing marginal returns for the society that...

The Imminent Collapse Of Industrial Society

06/11/2013 12:28
By Peter Goodchild The collapse of modern industrial society has 14 parts, each with a somewhat causal relationship to the next. (1) Fossil fuels, (2) metals, and (3) electricity are a tightly-knit group, and no industrial civilization can have one without the others. The decline in fossil-fuel...

Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?

06/11/2013 12:25
Paul R. Ehrlich†⇓ and Anne H. Ehrlich ... today, for the first time, humanity's global civilization—the worldwide, increasingly interconnected, highly technological society in which we all are to one degree or another, embedded—is threatened with collapse by an array of environmental problems....

Why societies collapse

06/11/2013 12:23
By Jared Diamond Throughout human history societies have prospered and collapsed leaving behind tantalizing glimpses of their magnificence in crumbling temples, ruins and statues. Why did these ancient civilisations fall apart? Why did some collapse and not others? And what lessons do they have for...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

06/11/2013 12:18
by David Brin, Ph.D. History would seem to favor pessimists. In COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond shows how past cultures toppled, sometimes with little warning. Supplementing historical records with discoveries in archaeology and climatology, he offers a guided tour...
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