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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/Fruesli on 2024-07-06 23:45:02+00:00.

Submission Statement: Apologies for reposting, my previous attempt was denied and I didn’t get to read the explanation before it all disappeared, so if I’m repeating the problem, please excuse me. Didn’t quite know what flair to use for this either. What a noob!

That said, I’ve spent a bit of time trying to find a way of visually representing some of the many and various factors that contribute to Collapse and I wanted to share it here. I think as a tool, it could be a good way to get people to start thinking about the interconnectedness of topics that they previously hadn’t considered, or be introduced to new terms which they can then look into if they choose. It’s also a means of processing and ordering my thoughts.

I brainstormed and narrowed (or depending on your perspective, expanded) my topics until I had a little over 50 headings, which I then grouped into roughly topical areas, although some factors were hard to pin to a central topic. Beginning with the first image which has the factors which jumped out at me as the “core underlying problems”, I built expanding rings of content as you pull outward from the centre. The rings are: “core issues”, “environment”, “water/atmosphere”, “industry”, and “people”. It’s not an exhaustive list, and I know for a fact I’ve left a few things out, but that’s fine, it still does the job of collating information together. Some of the headings are in larger circles, but this has nothing to do with importance, I just had to fit the text in.

In the last image I wanted to have some fun, and just to see how crazy it would look, drew any obvious connecting links between a bunch of the factors. It looks a bit like spaghetti junction, but I think it does help convey the complexity of collapse. As hard as it is to capture the concept of collapse in conversation, it’s equally hard in graphical form. You need some proper scale and perspective. This is not a polished product and it probably won’t ever be “finished”, but it’s been a good exercise in trying to pin as many factors as I can, and then thinking about the basic connections between them, here and there. Obviously a bit of a pickle to try and capture it in its entirety, and very tricky to make something that’s both legible and accessible. 

Why is this Collapse related? I tried to make a visual resource that could capture even a degree of the complexity of inter-related topics that feed in to collapse. If nothing else it’s a collation of collapse related issues. Hopefully for those already collapse aware, it might be a helpful resource when talking with others, or perhaps you might find a new avenue of interest to explore and learn about.

Fingers crossed it displays properly! (spare link here: )