collapsology
collapsology noun: the transdisciplinary study of the collapse of industrial civilization, and what might succeed it.
Noun
collapsology (uncountable)
- The transdisciplinary study of the collapse of industrial civilization, and what might succeed it.
- This will be the true purpose of collapsology, which we define as the transdisciplinary study of the collapse of our industrial civilization, and what might succeed it, based on the two cognitive modes of reason and intuition and on recognized scientific studies.2020, Andrew Brown, transl., How Everything Can Collapse […] , John Wiley & Sons, translation of Comme tout peut s'effondrer […] by Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens, →ISBN
- For the authors of the Jean Jaurès study, the political scientist Jérôme Fourquet and the pollster Jean-Philippe Dubrulle, collapsology is driven at least in part by economic factors.2020 October 11, Laura Spinney, “‘Humans weren’t always here. We could disappear’: meet the collapsologists”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Origin of collapsology
From French collapsologie, collapse + -ology.
Words formed from collapsology
Questions about collapsology
- What does collapsology mean?
- Collapsology means the transdisciplinary study of the collapse of industrial civilization, and what might succeed it.
- What part of speech is collapsology?
- Collapsology is a noun.
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