Civilisation’s collapse not the end of the world

October 6, 2025

Our planet holds far too many people. We are destroying the uniquely stable environment of the past 12,000 years which has enabled civilisations to develop and thrive. We are bringing our civilisation’s collapse through not addressing existential issues now in plain sight.

With civilisational collapse, our human population will inevitably shrink. Animal populations must also reduce – since 94% of animals now are domesticated livestock.

Some domesticated animals might become feral; predators would thrive; the natural environment would re-establish itself, gradually burying remains of our lost civilisation.

Thus life on the planet would rebalance – how much life, and what balance, would depend on how far our environmental degradation progressed before the collapse, and what tipping points had breached bringing unstoppable environmental change. The period of change would be tumultuous.

But once the tumult has settled, there will, we hope, still be life on Earth. Many species may have died; new species may develop that would thrive in the new environment that evolved. A new balance will be reached.

Peace could return to the planet. Perhaps that peace will include some humans – hopefully chastened by the knowledge of what they had lost. We can only hope.