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Record 1 2019-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
  • Social Organization
  • Industries - General
CONT

Collapsology [is not intended] to be frightening: its purpose is to cross many analyses to prove that there are so many potential crises that one of them will necessarily burst one day — and that it will lead to a series of other crises.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Études et analyses environnementales
  • Organisation sociale
  • Industries - Généralités
DEF

Exercice transdisciplinaire d'étude de l'effondrement de [la] civilisation industrielle et de ce qui pourrait lui succéder, [qui s'appuie] sur les deux modes cognitifs que sont la raison et l'intuition, et sur des travaux scientifiques reconnus.

OBS

Le terme «collapsologie» vient du latin collapsus, participe passé de collabi, «tomber d'un bloc, s'écrouler, s'affaisser» et du suffixe «-logie», logos, «parole, discours, raison, relation».

Spanish

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