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We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse
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This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment.
Collapse, in this context, refers to the significant loss of an established level or complexity towards a much simpler state. It can occur differently within many areas, orderly or chaotically, and be willing or unwilling. It does not necessarily imply human extinction or a singular, global event. Although, the longer the duration, the more it resembles a ‘decline’ instead of collapse.
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forgetting about mesoamerican pyramids in one sentence and then mentioning some of the people who built them in the next; somehow this glaring mistake makes me want to dismiss the article all together because i have no way of know what else they're getting wrong.
It seems that they got it from the wikipedia article on Chaco Canyon, which gives a couple of citations for this claim. Perhaps they meant by area or by overall volume, as opposed to by height? I don't know about volume because I haven't done a comparison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaco_Culture_National_Historical_Park#Central_canyon
I wonder if largest meant "most people in a building"?
Perhaps it's largest as measured in floor space, which is how we usually measure it these days. This seems to be implied by counting "rooms". Unfortunately my education was so poor that I don't even know off-hand whether any ancient mesoamerican pyramids had more floor space than Pueblo Bonito.