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1. Human Civilization

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   Conclusion: The Entropy of Complexity
   While civilization offers exponential increases in resource exploitation and collective knowledge preservation, it simultaneously increases the potential energy stored in systemic failure. Every new layer of specialization (e.g., metallurgy, mathematics, specialized salt transport routes) creates a dependency that, if severed, cascades rapidly. The ultimate fate of any complex civilization appears to be the inevitable overshoot of its carrying capacity, usually triggered by the subtle degradation of ess…