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10 modern civilizations on the road to collapse (international community) - C C - Sep 26, 2021
https://thedebrief.org/10-modern-civilizations-on-the-road-to-collapse/
EXCERPT: . . . So while there is no single agreed-upon theory for why civilizations collapse, The Debrief decided to examine the road to collapse for the “2021 Top 10 Most Powerful Nations,” according to U.S. News and World Report and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Each nation was judged on how well it currently ranks in ten factors generally accepted as influencing a society’s downfall. These factors were:
• Susceptibility to Climate Change, based on the Global Climate Risk Index.
• Ecological Degradation according to the Environmental Performance Index.
• Equality of Wealth according to the Gini Index.
• Political Equality and Social Freedoms based on the Freedom House, Freedom Index.
• Economic Complexity Index, which measures the current state of a country’s productive knowledge by the Growth Lab at Harvard University’s Center for International Development.
• Response to National Crisis, by examining the disparity between a nation’s GDP from the third quarter of 2020 and spring of 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Status of National Defense, according to Global Firepower’s 2021 Military Strength Ranking.
• Political Stability based on Global Economy’s Political Stability Index.
• Availability of Natural Resources, according to The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium report by the World Bank.
• Innovation, based on the number of patent applications filed by a nation to the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Each country was then given an overall raw score based on the collective scores in these individual categories. So without further ado, here is The Debrief’s list of the most powerful nations that could be most likely headed for collapse... (MORE - missing details)
COVERED: (10) Japan, (9) South Korea, (8) The United Kingdom, (8) The United States of America, (6) Germany, (5) France, (4) China, (3) Russia, (2) The United Arab Emirates, (1) Saudi Arabia.