[nbow]

Seeing civilizational collapse or decline as far fetched is a direct result of your privileged position in the world.

[jl6]

It’s more a result of being old enough to have seen countless histrionic doomsday predictions not come true.

[jcpst]

It’s not too far-fetched, it’s happened before: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse