How Irreversible Collapsing Happens with Climate Change

Joseph Kamanda Kimona-Mbinga
3 min readAug 21, 2023

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The Course of Empire by Thomas Cole

History is full of irreversible collapsing of human civilization apogees. The Roman Empire decline and collapse are without any doubt among the most spectacular ones.

Edward Gibbon and Montesquieu give very good insights on the rise, decline and collapse of the Roman Empire.

However for any very wise and intelligent mind; just by observing how the world has been governed and led for the last 3 decades; you get the best of understanding how the decline and collapsing of the human civilization apogees happen over times. Our epochs are the best laboratories to understand this phenomenon.

Climate change has been one of the main forces driving irreversible decline and collapsing of the human civilization over time. It also has been at the heart of mass extinctions on Earth. The concept of Black Swan Event can help to better understand how it works.

Climate Change is making Black Swan Events the new norms! As I use to say; when such events become the new norms; there is a a threshold when their unpredictability reduces at zero any human and technological capacities of adaptation and resilience. It is at that threshold that the human civilization begins irreversibly to collapse.

When the threshold of such unpredictability begins to challenge the capacity of adaptation and resilience of biological metabolism of a species; you get the beginning of either irreversible genetic mutations to adapt to new norms or a mass extinction of such species…

Climate Change has been the key element in reaching new thresholds of unpredictability of Black Swan Events, which make any civilizational and biological adaptation and resilience impossible. Yet such thresholds can happen and accelerate quickly! In less than a decade; you can reach such thresholds with Climate Change. There are Forces that govern the Universe, which are far more powerful than any human mighty!

Yuval Noah Harari is asking an interesting question: are humans unstoppable?

The mankind species is stoppable! There are forces of Nature that can erase in few seconds every trace and memory of the mankind species on Earth!

It is because there has been put in the human collective memory that the mankind is made in the image of god who gave them the power to dominate everything that the mankind species has been making cataclysmic disasters.

There are Laws that govern the Universe and that will stop the mankind propensity to destruction. Human species power cannot stand these Laws!

It is time to make new generations understand that there are limits to not cross for avoiding consequences that come with such abuses!

By the way, any power comes with responsibilities. The best way to lose a power is about abusing it! Mankind power will vanish if such power is continually being abused.

Some hundred million years ago; dinosaurs were the dominant species on this Earth planet like the mankind species is today. For sure dinosaurs too should have been feeling almighty like the mankind species does today. Probably dinosaurs weren’t aware about their fate. The mankind species has the privilege to know what can happen when they abuse of power at their disposal…

Let be humble and wise as individuals, organizations, nations and species…

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Joseph Kamanda Kimona-Mbinga

Economist, Author & Entrepreneur / Économiste, Auteur & Entrepreneur 孤家寡人 (😊😉😁)