No… A few thousand years at least probably much longer… Humans are like cockroaches, extremely hard to get rid of…

which civilization? Humanity? Nah.

With the way things are going, I’m afraid to say that it’s already happening. Chaos everywhere! There’s hardly a day without pandemonium.

The pressures worth watching are debt and trust. Debt is a claim on tomorrow's productivity, resources, and energy, and the shared belief holding cooperation together tends to dissolve before institutions visibly fail.