2026-07-01
1 小时 27 分钟Oh, hey, it's the smoldering core in your bag of charred popcorn.
Alley word.
And yes, collapsology.
It's a real word.
And it's all about the fall of empires and the disintegration of societal complexity.
So thisologist is an anthropologist, historian, a legend, a one-of-a-kind expert in the field,
literally wrote the book on the topic titled The Collapse of Complex Societies.
And he also authored The Way the Wind Blows, Climate, History,
and Human Action, as well as the book Drilling Down, The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma.
Consultant and continued to teach as a professor of environment
and society in the College of Natural Resources at Utah State University until just very recently.
I listened to the audio book of The Collapse of Complex Societies alongside your pod mother,
Jarrett Sleeper, on a road trip.
And Mercedes Maitland is also a fan of this ologist's work.
And she produced and did a huge amount, like nearly all the research for this episode.
This one is steered by her MVP.
And so we were certainly more familiar with him than he was of us.
So it might be geology.
It might be, in this case, collapsology.
I'm just interested that there is such a term.