Limits to Growth
- Donella Meadows. 2004. The Limits to Growth: The 30 year update
- V Smil. Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production.
- K Gever. Beyond Oil: The threat to food & fuel in the coming decades
- D. & M. Fisher. 2001. The Nitrogen Bomb. Discover magazine
- William Catton. Overshoot
- M Wackernagel. Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
- L Garrett. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance.
- G Slade. Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America
- Hopfenberg. Human population numbers as a function of food supply
Overpopulation
- A Weisman. Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
- R Beck & L Kolankiewicz The Environmental Movement’s Retreat From Advocating U.S. Population Stabilization (1970-1998).
- Garrett Hardin. 1999. The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia.
- Garrett Hardin. 1995. The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons.
- K Higgs. Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet (The MIT Press)
- V Abernethy. 2000.Population Politics: The Choices That Shape Our Future
- Thomas Homer-Dixon.2001. Environment, Scarcity, and Violence.
- Jennifer Viegas. 2003. 1,000 Times Too Many Humans.
Escape to Mars & Outer Space
- A Friedemann. Escape to Mars After we’ve trashed the Earth? Jan 1, 2025 post
- K Weinersmith. A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?
Collapse
- EH Cline. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Turning Points in Ancient History
- John Perlin. 2005. A forest journey: the story of wood and civilization.
- DR Montgomery. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization
- N. Ahmed. 2017. Failing states, collapsing system, biophysical triggers of political violence.
- P. Turchin. Two books: “Secular cycles” and “War and Peace and War”
- United Nations. 2016. Global material flows and resources productivity
- Jared Diamond. 2004. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- R Heinberg. Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival
- W Neuman. Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
- SH Swan. Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race
- A Rimas. Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
- DJ White. The Bottlenecks of the 21st Century: Essays on the Systems Synthesis of the Human Predicament
- M O’Connell. Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
- I Morris. The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations
- J. Friedrichs. 2010. Global energy crunch: how different parts of the world would react to a peak oil scenario
- E. H. Cline. 2014. 1177 B.C. The year civilization collapsed
- Peter Godwin. 2007. Zimbabwe: When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
- T. Egan. 2006. The worst hard time: the untold story of those who survived the Dust Bowl
- Robert Constanza. 2007. Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth
- Albert Bartlett. Arithmetic, Population, and Energy
- W. Ophuls. Immoderate greatness: why civilizations fail
- T Buttler. Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth
Collapse, Russia
- Dmitry Orlov. 2005. How Russians survived the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- Stephen Wegren. 2005. Russia’s Food Policies and Globalization
Collapse, North Korea
- B. Demick. 2010. Nothing to envy. Ordinary lives in North Korea.
- Y. Park. 2015. In order to live: a north Korean girl’s journey to freedom.
- P. McKenna. 2013. Inside North Korea’s environmental collapse. PBS.
- Dale Allen Pfeiffer. 2003. Drawing lessons from experience; the agricultural crises in North Korea and Cuba
- S. Kim. Without you, there is no us: undercover among the sons of North Korea’s elite
Collapse, Venezuela
- W Newman. Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
- In newspapers and other media
- N Ahmed. Venezuela’s collapse is a window into how the Oil Age will unravel.
Collapse, Cuba
- OXFAM. 2001. Cuba: Going against the grain
Collapse, Roman Empire
- P. Heather. Empires and barbarians. The fall of Rome and the birth of Europe
- P. Heather. The fall of the Roman empire. A new history of Rome and the barbarians
- B. Ward-Perkins. The fall of Rome and the end of civilization
- Kyle Harper. The fate of Rome. Climate, disease, and the end of an empire.
- E. Gibbon. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
- T. Holland. Rubicon: the last years of the Roman republic
Collapse, Civil War, Refugees
D Mikhail. The Beekeeper. Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
Nuclear War
- R Rosenbaum. How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III
- GM Graff. Raven Rock. The Story of the U.S. Governments Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die
- F Kaplan. The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, & the secret history of Nuclear War
- E Schlosser. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
War
- SA LeBlanc. Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage.
- N Ohler. Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
- R O’Harrow. The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln’s General, Master Builder of the Union Army
- J Weatherford. Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World
- J Weatherford. Secret History of the Mongol Queens
- L Kleveman, The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia.
- M Klare. Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict.
- M MacMillan. War How Conflict Shaped Us
- C Johnson. The Sorrows Of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic.
- J Matloff. No friends but the mountains: Dispatches from the world’s violent highlands
- P Coffee. American arsenal. A century of waging war.
- D Vine. Base Nation: How U.S. Military bases abroad harm America and the World
- A Rashid. Taliban. Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia.
- P Turchin. 2 books: Secular Cycles. War and Peace and War.
- D Berreby. Us and Them. Understanding Your Tribal Mind.
- A Gat. War in Human Civilization.
- L Keeley. War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage.
- J Waller. Becoming Evil. How ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing.
- P Gourevitch. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda.
- D Goldhagen. Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans & the Holocaust. 1997
- Wrangham & Peterson. Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence. 1997
- M Ghiglieri. The Dark Side of Man: Tracing the Origins of Male Violence
- R Rhodes. Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist.
- G MacDonogh. After the Reich. The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation.
- C. Andrew. Secret world: A history of intelligence. 980 pages
- M. Matthews. Head strong: how psychology is revolutionizing war
- A Goldsworthy. Complete Roman Army
CYBERWAR
- RA Clarke. Cyber War. The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It
- J Brenner. America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix
What it’s like to be a soldier
- Guy Sajer. The Forgotten Soldier
- K Marlantes. What it is like to go to war.
- David Finkel. The Good Soldiers
- Peter Goldman. Charlie Company: What Vietnam Did to Us
- MD Matthews. Head Strong: How Psychology is Revolutionizing War
Extinction
- Johan Rockström. 2009. Planetary Boundaries.
- Lisa-ann Gershwin. Stung! On jellyfish blooms and the future of the ocean
- A. Robok. Climatic consequences of regional nuclear conflicts.
- I Urbina. The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
- PV Pry. The EMP Threat: the state of preparedness against the threat of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) event. House of Representatives. A nationwide blackout lasting 1 year could kill up to 90% of Americans
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