Is the idea that the worldwide agricultural system would be gradually overtaxed and then collapse within a short period?
Things like that are not unprecedented. I think that is the theory for what became of the Easter Island civilization. One could also draw parallels to the collapse of sardine fishing in US in the 1950s—in a couple of years the sardine population completely crashed, but up until that point the fishing had been going great, there was no gradual cost increase that made it less profitable.
Things like that are not unprecedented. I think that is the theory for what became of the Easter Island civilization. One could also draw parallels to the collapse of sardine fishing in US in the 1950s—in a couple of years the sardine population completely crashed, but up until that point the fishing had been going great, there was no gradual cost increase that made it less profitable.