Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: [SALT] How world civilization fell apart - next MONDAY Jan. 11
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 15:21:12 -0600
I've been a member of this Long Now foundation in the past, and am still
a fan so I get their emails. I think this presentation should be of
particular interest to any of us interested in whole/complex systems. I
think the archival recording will be available after the event for free
listening.
Bob Waldorp
Oklahoma "Shakie" City
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Subject: [SALT] How world civilization fell apart - next MONDAY Jan. 11
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 11:06:40 -0800
From: Stewart Brand <sb@longnow.org>
Reply-To: services@longnow.org
To: SALT list <salt@list.longnow.org>
Consider this, optimists. All the societies in the world can collapse
simultaneously. It has happened before.
In the 12th century BCE the great Bronze Age civilizations of the
Mediterraneanâall of themâsuddenly fell apart. Their
empires evaporated, their cities emptied out, their technologies
disappeared, and famine ruled. Mycenae, Minos, Assyria, Hittites,
Canaan, Cyprusâall gone. Even Egypt fell into a steep decline. The
Bronze Age was over.
The event should live in history as one of the great cautionary tales,
but it hasnât because its causes were considered a mystery. How can
we know what to be cautious of? Eric Cline has taken on on the mystery.
An archaeologist-historian at George Washington University, he is the
author of /1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed/. The failure, he
suggests, was systemic. The highly complex, richly interconnected
system of the world tipped all at once into chaos.
*
**"*1177 B.C: When Civilization Collapsed*," *Eric Cline, *SFJAZZ
Center, Hayes Valley,* San Francisco, *7pm, *Monday, January 11*.
*The show starts promptly at 7:30pm.
To be sure of a seat:
*â¢* Long Now Members <https://longnow.org/membership/> can use the
discount code on the Cline Seminar page to reserve 2 free seats
High-quality videos of the talks and other benefits (such as priority
tickets) are available to Long Now members. Membership, which starts at
$8/month ($96/year), helps support the series and other Long Now
projects. Joinable here <https://longnow.org/membership/>.