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The Silurian hypothesis is a thought experiment, [1] which assesses modern science's ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization, perhaps several million years ago. The most probable clues for such a civilization could be carbon , radioactive elements or temperature variation.
World War Zero is an American coalition launched by John Kerry in 2019 to fight the climate crisis. [1] The main goal of the coalition is to hold more than ten million “climate conversations” in 2020 with citizens across the political spectrum .
A future Second World War leads to a breakdown of civilization in most of the world, with technology returning to medieval levels by 1970. Novel 1936 War Wild Harbour: Ian MacPherson: A war much worse than World War I leads to complete social collapse in Great Britain Story 1937 War By the Waters of Babylon: Stephen Vincent Benét: Radio 1938 ...
A climate apocalypse is a term used to denote a predicted scenario involving the global collapse of human civilization due to climate change. Such collapse could theoretically arrive through a set of interrelated concurrent factors such as famine, extreme weather, war and conflict, and disease. [1]
A survivor of the atomic bomb attack on the Japanese city of Nagasaki during the Second World War has warned Vladimir Putin that he has no idea of the destruction and pain such weapons cause as ...
The Olduvai Theory posits that industrial civilization, as it currently exists, will have a maximum duration of approximately one hundred years, beginning in 1930. . According to this theory, from 2030 onward, humanity is expected to gradually regress to levels of civilization comparable to those experienced in the past, ultimately culminating in a hunting-based culture by around 3
Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH FBA (/ ˈ t ɔɪ n b i /; 14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was an English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's College London.
An image of one of the pyramids in the upper level of Yaxchilán. These civilizations are credited with many inventions and advancements including pyramid-temples, mathematics (such as the development of the concept of zero as early as 36 BC and working with sums of hundreds of millions), astronomy (measuring the length of the solar year to a high degree of accuracy), medicine, and theology.