Frequent disturbances to human societies boost the ability of populations to resist and recover from subsequent downturns, a Nature paper indicates. The study, which analyzes 30,000 years of human history, has implications for future population growth and resilience and for contemporary resilience-building initiatives.
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Historical data suggest hard knocks to human societies build long-term resilience
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-historical-hard-human-societies-term.htmlFrequent disturbances to human societies boost the ability of populations to resist and recover from subsequent downturns, a Nature paper indicates. The study, which analyzes 30,000 years of human history, has implications for future population growth and resilience and for contemporary resilience-building initiatives.
True. Internet outages would probably lead to a more offline first society (as far as digital storage goes etc).