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Frightening, to be sure, but it has long been known that humans are consuming resources at an unsustainable rate and damaging the world's ecosystems. And every second person has beliefs about the world economic system and how it should change.
It is interesting, though, to look at how societies like those of the Maya or on Easter Island have collapsed in on themselves. Wikipedia doesn't entirely agree that it was exceeding the land's carrying capacity that ended the Mayans - apparently there are "88 different theories or variations of theories attempting to explain the Classic Maya Collapse have been identified. From climate change to deforestation to lack of action by Mayan kings, there is no universally accepted collapse theory, although drought is gaining momentum as the leading explanation." Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Maya_collapse