Geo-cultural Time: Advancing Human Societal Complexity Within Worldwide Constraint Bottlenecks—A Chronological/Helical Approach to Understanding Human–Planetary Interactions
Joel D. Gunn|John W. Day|William J. Folan|Matthew Moerschbaecher
The integration of feedbacks between Holocene planetary history and human development benefits from a change in perspective that focusses on socio-historical periods stability separated by global-scale events, which we call foundational transitions or bottlenecks. Transitions are caused social and/or astronomical biogeophysical events such as volcanoes, changes solar emissions, climate sea-level/ice volume conditions, biogeochemical ecological changes, major technical innovations. We present cultural chronology accounts for generated the late Pleistocene Holocene. These governed make energy more less available to groups. is followed methodologies incorporate innate, Malthusian–Darwinian tendency grow systems over time into helical-feedback equation provides testing hypothesis. A proof concept test these ideas using information system-based data Maya lowlands conjunction with other civilizations suggests troubled transition current worldwide economic system because potentially catastrophic impacts resource constraints biogeophysical-social resilience face obvious needs sustainable mode acquiring energy. case implies likely transpire planetary-scale disturbances/constraints Earth (human planetary) will lead strong disruptions. There may be many 200 studies this idea worldwide. Our analysis toward sustainability dense globalized industrial society very difficult.
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