The Age of Megafailure
How Societies Fall From the Heights — and What Stops Them
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6 min readAug 17, 2023
Hawaii up in flames, 100 people dead and counting. Thousands evacuated from wildfire-stricken regions of Spain. Thousands of hectares of Portugal, on fire. The blazes in Canada? They’re still going, and so far, they’ve destroyed an area the size of… Greece. Oh, and Greece? It’s on fire, too.