Is this the end of civilization? Not the bibical "end times" but the collapse of

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"systems"? We are surrounded by a degrading environment, loss of species & diversity, a worsening shortage of clean water, climate change (whether man-made or natural is irrelevant), accelerating nuclear proliferation and increasing religion-based bigotry. Despots rule most of the world. Is humanity on the down slope?