Collapse: How Socities Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

(look for the following segments of the film from the same user at the end of each segment)

Highly recommended reading:

The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter 

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond 

Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects by Dmitry Orlov 

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change and other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunstler 

Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse by Carolyn Baker 

Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert 

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And below is a great website that sums up our predicament and offers invaluable information on how to extricate ourselves from it, to survive the bursting of the "Human Population Bubble" or what has been referred to within the Natural Sciences as a "Die Off", what usually occurs after an explosion of any population that exceeds the carrying capacity of its environment: 

http://dieoff.org/