Societal collapse
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Societal collapse is the fall of a complex human society characterized by the loss of cultural identity and of social complexity as an adaptive system, the downfall of government, and the rise of viol
Destruction, from The Course of Empire by Thomas Cole (1836)
Desolation, from The Course of Empire by Thomas Cole (1836)
The Thirty Years' War between 1618 and 1648 devastated much of Europe and was one of the many political upheavals during the General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, which is causally linked to the Little Ice Age.
The Russian famine of 1921–1922 occurred as a result of drought and the ongoing Russian Civil War
Global catastrophic risk
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A global catastrophic risk or a doomsday scenario is a hypothetical event that could damage human well-being on a global scale, endangering or even destroying modern civilization. Existential risk is
Artist's impression of a major asteroid impact. An asteroid caused the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.