Introducing a living literature review on societal collapse

Blog Update

Going forward this blog here will work somewhat differently. I got some funding by Open Phil to start a living literature review on societal collapse (thanks to Matt Clancy for making this happen). 

So how is this gonna work? The idea behind this project is to make research on societal collapse more accessible to anyone who’s interested in the topic, by writing it up in a nicely sorted and easy to read way. The living part means that if I come across new information, I will update the blog posts accordingly. This also means that I greatly appreciate it if you send papers which might be relevant to the posts you will have read here. 

As Substack does not allow the nicely sorted part and is not really a permanent place for writing on the internet, I will mirror the living literature review on a Github Repository. There the posts will be sorted in a few categories, so you can start reading more easily once their number has grown a bit. I will update both the Github posts and here on Substack, so you don’t have to worry where it is better to read the posts.

Here on Substack I will also continue to write from time to time about topics which are not societal collapse. All posts that are part of the living literature review will say so at the top and I will also only mirror those posts to the Github archive.  

Open Phil is also planning to fund several other living literature reviews on a variety of topics. You can find more info here.

If you like the posts that I am writing here, I would greatly appreciate it if you could share your favorite post with someone else that might be interested.