Djordje Kojadinovic/Reuters Before society collapses, it slows down. That's the conclusion of a study published on Monday in the journal PNAS. A team of researchers examined the archaeological record that Neolithic European — that is, between 3,000 and 10,000 years — societies left in the years before several different collapses. They found that "critical slowing down" is a reliable early warning signal of a society on the edge of going bust. A society that can't bounce back froma bad winter...
Djordje Kojadinovic/Reuters Before society collapses, it slows down. That's the conclusion of a study published on Monday in the journal PNAS. A team of researchers examined the archaeological record that Neolithic European — that is, between 3,000 and 10,000 years — societies left in the years before several different collapses. They found that "critical slowing down" is a reliable early warning signal of a society on the edge of going bust. A society that can't bounce back froma bad winter...
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