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And then the financial collapse happened.

We're flying across the caldera floor.

Is that more expensive than a nervous breakdown?

The whole country's ready to let go.

You know that Ives is close to cracking?

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The parallel collapse of a grownup Republican presence in the executive branch.

This is a view of what's called the calving face.

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The great polar fields of the north and south will rot and divide.

With these sacrifices, Greece did avoid bankruptcy and the eurozone avoided a collapse.

Other stories are that everything is on the verge of unraveling.

Depression, there's a great approach to that in mood disorders.

So let's not forget who is really paying the price of this financial collapse.

So there's this continuous cycle of innovation that is necessary in order to sustain growth and avoid collapse.

It can cause this entire structure to collapse. That doesn't worry you?

Here it is. He inherited a deeply damaged economy. He put a floor under the crash.

They get you on top of some glacier point out the sunset, and suddenly, like an avalanche....

And we can only avoid a complete mental breakdown... if we get him to a sanitarium with proper facilities.

But there is one thing that is particularly remarkable and novel about slavery today, and that is a complete collapse in the price of human beings expensive in the past, dirt cheap now.

If God is with us, and that gunpowder has kept its ginger over the years, ...we'll make that landslide ourselves.

There are also societies today that may be close to collapse, such as Nepal, Indonesia and Columbia.

Now you might think that all this breaking down of categories would make somebody like me really happy.

The savings ratio, net savings, were below zero in the middle of 2008, just before the crash.

And this has already saved millions of lives, and it has prevented entire economies from capsizing in Sub Saharan Africa.

The collapse in biodiversity, climate change, pandemics, financial crises these will be the currency that we will think about.

You saw it with the recent economic crash, where bad things happen in the economy bad for everybody, for much of the world.

Now, when your state is collapsing, your economy is heading south at a rate of knots, the last people you want coming on to the labor market are 14,000 men and women whose chief skills are surveillance, are smuggling, building underground networks and killing people.

This was the last 15 years before the crash, and you can see there, consumer debt rose dramatically.

In 1687, parts of the mine collapsed in a landslide, creating an 100 m deep pit.

What is there that we can learn from the past that would help us avoid declining or collapsing in the way that so many past societies have?

I love studying these moments in American history when there was this frenzy of partisan anger, that the economy was on the verge of total collapse.

The history of Europe tells us that even if relatively small countries in Europe fall apart in this way, it could have repercussions in the rest of Europe.

I remember one day, when I was famished and exhausted, and I was almost collapsing in a scorching heat under a tree, and just at that time, one of the poorest men in that village invited me into his hut and graciously fed me.

They said, we've been looking at the oceans for a long time now, and we want to tell you they're not in trouble, they're near collapse.

There's an ancient and universal concept that words have power, that spells exist, and that if we could only pronounce the right words, then whoosh! you know, an avalanche would come and wipe out the hobbits, right?

The calving face is the wall where the visible ice breaks off, but in fact, it goes down below sea level another couple thousand feet.

And because we started this work around the time of the financial collapse, around the time when foreclosures were hitting the news, we said, hhmm, maybe we should actually start in the financial domain.

Now, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole it's not massive enough but there are tens of thousands of black holes in our galaxy.

One interesting common thread has to do with, in many cases, the rapidity of collapse after a society reaches its peak.

One blueprint for trouble, making collapse likely, is where there is a conflict of interest between the short term interest of the decision making elites and the long term interest of the society as a whole, especially if the elites are able to insulate themselves from the consequences of their actions.

But there is one thing that is particularly remarkable and novel about slavery today, and that is a complete collapse in the price of human beings expensive in the past, dirt cheap now.

As the Director of the International Bureau of Education, he declared in 1934 that only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.