Environmental Coffeehouse

Understanding the rise and fall of industrial civilisation - and what comes next.

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As things fall apart

Collapses are the way the universe gets rid of the old to leave space for the new. It was noted for the first time by the Roman Philosopher Lucius Anneaus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) and it is called today the "Seneca Effect."