ByCHRISTOPHER KETCHAM AND JEFF GIBBSJAN. 31, 20213 AM PT

• https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-01-31/societal-collapse-collapseology-climate-change?fbclid=IwAR0Cmstvgi2RGGWAqgRkG3hy8YK4PDzoyWNFYGMs9VIU5uQqDpG7JbJ3L9k

Hundreds of scientists, writers and academics from 30 countries sounded a warning to humanity in an openletterpublished in the Guardian in December: Policymakers and the rest of us must “engage openly with the risk of disruption and even collapse of our societies.” “Damage to the climate and environment” will be the overarching cause, and “researchers in many areas” have projected widespread social collapse as “a credible scenario this century.”

It’s not hard to find the “collapseology” studies they are talking about. In areportfor the sustainability group Future Earth, a survey of scientists found that extreme weather events, food insecurity, freshwater shortages and the broad degradation of life-sustaining ecosystems “have the potential to impact and amplify one another in ways that might cascade to create global systemic collapse.” A 2019reportfrom the Breakthrough National Center for…