{"id":46078,"date":"2018-10-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/leffondrement-de-la-societe-industrielle-et-apres\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T21:14:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T20:14:52","slug":"leffondrement-de-la-societe-industrielle-et-apres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/leffondrement-de-la-societe-industrielle-et-apres\/","title":{"rendered":"The Collapse of Industrial Society: Then What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='post-container'><p>More and more writers take the view that industrial society is threatened with &ldquo;collapse&rdquo;. But the very concept of collapse is vague and is interpreted in many different ways; and there are many views of the consequences that may ensue (end of the world, end of a world etc.). Moreover, the lessons that may be drawn from past collapses &mdash; the collapse of ancient civilizations &mdash; cannot necessarily provide relevant insight into a future &mdash; or, indeed, imminent &mdash; collapse.<\/p>\r\n<p>In this article, Gabriel Salerno shows why such a collapse looms on our horizon: first, because our developmental model is clearly no longer effective, either economically or socially; second, because it is deeply destructive of our environment. His argument is supported by a broad review of the literature on the subject, which underpins his thinking on the various types of collapse &mdash; those of the past and, more speculatively, the collapse (or collapses) of tomorrow.<\/p>\r\n<p>But what might come after the collapse? Salerno distinguishes three &ldquo;meta-interpretations&rdquo; (three possible cases): the first ensues from a cyclical view of history and envisages not an &ldquo;eternal return of the same&rdquo; but a transition to a new model; the second, deriving from a progressive vision, foresees a levelling-off followed by a new rise; the third is &ldquo;declinist&rdquo; and, in that vision, collapse precedes chaos. This article, which is strongly supported by an analysis of the diverse publications on the subject, casts valuable light on a possible future that is too often overlooked.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more writers take the view that industrial society is threatened with &ldquo;collapse&rdquo;. But the very concept of collapse is vague and is interpreted in many different ways; and there are many views of the consequences that may ensue (end of the world, end of a world etc.). Moreover, the lessons that may be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/leffondrement-de-la-societe-industrielle-et-apres\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1324],"tags":[202,212],"keyword":[981,1204,1166,1026],"class_list":["post-46078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-revue-futuribles","tag-environnement-en","tag-societe-en","keyword-civilisation-en","keyword-limites-a-la-croissance-en","keyword-conditions-de-vie-en","keyword-risques-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51087,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46078\/revisions\/51087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46078"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=46078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}