'Humanity's Phase Shift', Daniel Schmachtenberger

“If we look at the history we call civilisation to date, one very obvious thing that we notice is that all the early civilisations, don’t still exist.

Whether we look at the Mayas, the Aztecs, the Egyptians, the Romain Empire, the Greek Empire, they all collapsed.

And so the precedent is actually that civilisation collapses not that it maintains,”

The real difference is this is the first time we have a completely global civilisation, there really is no such thing as USA or China separate from each other,

when you understand globalised materials economies technology economics, where there’s actually no country in the world that can make its own consumer electronics.

Right? without the mining and manufacturing and you know technology that happens from around the world.

So, our process of civilisation is one that has inherently self-terminating dynamics built into it.

When that happens at a fully global scale it is a, basically the catastrophe is just unbounded, where it has always been bounded as, as big as the Romain Empire was when it fell,

it wasn’t everything.

And by not only its total geographical size but the level of technology it had, it caused desertification throughout the noble agriculture but it wasn’t to destabilise the biosphere writ large.

In a hundred years of industrialised fishing we've removed most of the large fish species from a water planet. A 3/4 water planet, so 3.5 billion years to get those fish species.

So you recognise that we're operating the same way that has always led to war.

- Daniel Schmachtenberger