Collapse
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If you just run the simulation, it will just collapse, like this.
But many critics laughed at the architect, arguing that people would have to wait hours for an elevator, or worse, that the tower would
collapse
under its own weight.
When I get to my car, I throw everything on the back, and I just
collapse
into the driver's seat.
We did it so fast we weren't prepared for their
collapse.
When cities become too fragile they can collapse, tip over and fail.
But there were also plenty of places in the world where societies have been developing for thousands of years without any sign of a major collapse, such as Japan, Java, Tonga and Tikopea.
There are also societies today that may be close to collapse, such as Nepal, Indonesia and Columbia.
And if that friendly support is pulled away, that may make a society more likely to
collapse.
So that's how the five-part framework is relevant to the
collapse
and eventual extinction of the Greenland Norse.
But nevertheless, there are certain common threads that emerge from these comparisons of past societies that did or did not
collapse
and threatened societies today.
One interesting common thread has to do with, in many cases, the rapidity of
collapse
after a society reaches its peak.
Or again, the
collapse
of the Soviet Union took place within a couple of decades, maybe within a decade, of the time when the Soviet Union was at its greatest power.
So, this is a frequent theme: societies
collapse
very soon after reaching their peak in power.
One blueprint for trouble, making
collapse
likely, is where there is a conflict of interest between the short-term interest of the decision-making elites and the long-term interest of the society as a whole, especially if the elites are able to insulate themselves from the consequences of their actions.
And that made the chiefs powerful in the short run, but led to the society's
collapse
in the long run.
We had deflation during the Depression, but that was
collapse
of the money supply,
collapse
of consumer confidence, a completely different phenomena.
So many of us are now suffering a kind of apocalypse fatigue, getting numb from too much
collapse
porn.
Left unchecked, we will head into another economic collapse, one very similar to the farm crisis of the 1980s, when commodity market prices crashed, interest rates doubled, and many farmers lost everything.
I thought that if I stopped attending these meetings anymore, the system would collapse, (Laughter) but my family continued with the meetings, and they often made decisions that I disliked.
Now you might have imagined that the financial crisis of 2008 would have led to the
collapse
of neoliberalism.
And intellectually, it did
collapse.
Now, as I was thinking about the extremes of stress and turbulence that we know we will have to confront, I went and I talked to a number of chief executives whose own businesses had gone through existential crises, when they teetered on the brink of
collapse.
Speaking of the greater good, I think we commit ourselves to telling truths to build bridges to common ground, and bridges that aren't based on truth will
collapse.
They never
collapse
into these small clumps.
This carbon core continues to
collapse
and as a result, the temperature increases, which allows further nuclear reactions to take place, and carbon then burns into oxygen, into neon, silicon, sulphur and ultimately iron.
The iron core has no other choice but to collapse, reaching incredibly high densities.
At these extreme high densities, the core actually resists collapse, and as a result, all of this infalling material bounces off the core.
Now, 4.5 billion years ago, something unsettled that cloud and caused it to collapse, forming the sun in its center and the solar system.
The Russian monarchy was on the brink of collapse, and to Yusupov and his fellow aristocrats, the holy man they’d invited to dinner was the single cause of it all.
If they get to a point where a palindrome isn’t possible, the bridge will collapse, and whoever’s on it will fall into the ravine.
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