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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/Sapient_Cephalopod on 2025-08-08 20:25:19+00:00.

Hi, this is a rather lax post but bear with me here

There is an entire online community of collapse-aware people, and some proportion of collapse-aware researchers working in areas of knowledge where collapse is very visible (e.g. climate science, ecology). That much, I understand - you study things, you feel uneasy, you start to connect the dots, then realize the repercussions, and boom - collapse/aware prepper/ecologist/general/actuary.

Now,

in academic philosophy, are there any notable, living collapse-aware figures? Are any of them public intellectuals, in the likes of Carl Sagan or Noam Chomsky? How well-known are they? Bonus points if they have a multifaceted outlook on collapse, instead of only seeing collapse through the lens of one field (e.g. economics, climate). For those figures, is there any notable collapse-related output, especially of treatises? You can include people who practice academic philosophy in academic circles while having been trained in another field.

Spurred by an anecdotal post about the lack of collapse awareness in leftist circles.