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We will reinvent new ways of living in the world and being attentive to ourselves, to other human beings and to all our fellow creatures. But collapse is not the end – it’s the beginning of our future. Collapse is the horizon of our generation. Today, utopia has changed sides: it is the utopians who believe that everything can continue as before, while realists put their energy into making a transition and building local resilience. How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for Our Times - A Today, utopia has changed sides: it is the utopians who believe that everything can continue as before, while realists put their energy into making a transition How Everything Can Collapse - A Manual for Our Times by How Everything Can Collapse - A Manual for Our Times by Pablo Servigne. In so doing they provide a valuable guide that will help everyone make sense of the new and potentially catastrophic situation in which we now find ourselves. They examine the scientific evidence and show how its findings, often presented in a detached and abstract way, are connected to people’s ordinary experiences – joining the dots, as it were, between the Anthropocene and our everyday lives. In this important book, Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens confront these issues head-on. Yet we now have a great deal of evidence to suggest that we are up against growing systemic instabilities that pose a serious threat to the capacity of human populations to maintain themselves in a sustainable environment. What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political problems, but we find it hard to face up to the very real possibility that these crises could produce a collapse of our entire civilization.