I only watched the film today after failing to find it for months on cable or Disney+, which broadcast Nat Geo content. The film came out 10 years ago and shortly after the book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which I read. He uses the analogy of a horse race between one of destruction and one of innovation. He questions whether we will give in to short-term thinking or make the societal changes needed to avert collapse. Jared Diamond, along with other writers and archeologists, say we have an advantage over these societies, which is we have a literate population, live in the Information Age and can learn from earlier collapses. These examples start with just a couple simple reasons to the more complicated and asks, can what happened to them, happen to us (the United States)? To illustrate that it could, it imagines a world of 2210 with a 5☌ warming (which climate forecasts say is possible) long after a 21st century societal collapse, with investigators of the time looking into desert ruins in Phoenix, Las Vegas, and the Mexican border as well as underwater ruins in South Florida. This film covers 3 collapsed societies: The Anasazi, the Maya and the Romans.
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