i think anybody interested in societal collapse should definitely watch this video:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WPB2u8EzL8
it's a very very sober and logical look at what societies exactly are and the systems behind them, an in-depths look at the core moving parts of a structure like our society. it mostly all boils down to Energy Return On Investment, a system like our society must increase its Energy Return to grow, and during that growth it evolves complexities to more efficiently harvest that Energy Return and it's almost impossible to de-complexify. and the short and long of this video is that unless we develop cold fusion (or similar advancement in Energy Return) our society will totally collapse at the hands of resource depletion and over-complexification, it's simply inevitable. and the sooner it happens the more of our natural world can be saved. so hopefully "collapse", as communities around the internet call it (on >reddit

/Collapseaware) happens sooner rather than later.