Number eight the ecosystem collapses.

Even if she collapses afterward.

What if the roof collapses?

And at that moment our economy collapses.

Lehman Brothers goes down, the whole lot collapses.

To have everything. If we miss something, it collapses.

Very odd. Every time I see her, she collapses.

When you go into beauty the probability wave collapses into one possibility.

You cut down that tree, the rain forest collapses as an ecosystem.

If this collapses, the region will be drawn into struggles whose consequences are difficult to predict.

In analyzing societal collapses, I've arrived at a five point framework a checklist of things that I go through to try and understand collapses. And I'll illustrate that five point framework by the extinction of the Greenland Norse society.

It collapses into a three dimensional shape that turns it into a nanomachine that actually cuts DNA.

And when that vapor bubble collapses, it emits sound, light and heat, and it's a very destructive process.

A company makes a Lattix pillar, which is a network, a lattice type pillar that collapses when it's hit.

So, I'm looking at these issues of collapses for a lot of past societies and for many present societies.

No, you scrape the barrel, and you end up with nothing but a pile that collapses 'cause it has no substance.

These rapid collapses are especially likely where there's a mismatch between available resources and resource consumption, or a mismatch between economic outlays and economic potential.

And when that ecosystem collapses, it could take a major ecosystem with it, like our atmosphere. So, what do we do about this? What are the solutions?

Insurgent movements that succeed do so because the government s will collapses. It is not clear at this point how much determination Iraq s emerging democratic leaders will have.

For a number of heavily indebted poor countries, shocks from collapses in principal exports, droughts and other natural disasters, and civil strife have led to unsustainable debt levels.

Oil prices will continue to rise until demand collapses. Statistical evidence suggests that this relationship will weaken once the real estate market recovers, but this remains a long run prospect.

The euro was in serious trouble, buffeted by rumors of imminent banking collapses. Bond yields in southern Europe were rising, and a pervasive sense of apprehension and fear cloaked governments in European capitals.

Concerning the role of custom and general principles it was noted that in addition to the situations mentioned in paragraph 31 above, custom and general principles may be relevant also where the treaty regime collapses.

Then credit dries up and the economy collapses. This vicious downward spiral for business confidence typically features phishes for example, the victims of Bernard Madoff s Ponzi scheme discovered only after the period of irrational exuberance has ended.

We need to go beyond donations and reduced pricing schemes to build sustainable health care systems with strong distribution channels and education programs for the public and for health care workers. Without these components, the model collapses.

Obviously the answer to this question is not going to be a single factor. If anyone tells you that there is a single factor explanation for societal collapses, you know right away that they're an idiot. This is a complex subject.

It will also be a reminder of the dangers of rushing in with official money where private debts have become unsustainable. Staying the course, as Summers warns, will lead only to needless suffering before that course inevitably collapses, bringing Greece and much else crashing down.

Is he who founds his building on Godwariness and the pursuit of Allah s pleasure better off or he who founds his building on the brink of a collapsing bank which collapses with him into the fire of hell? Allah does not guide the wrongdoing lot.

Is he who founds his building on Godwariness and the pursuit of Allah s pleasure better off or he who founds his building on the brink of a collapsing bank which collapses with him into the fire of hell? Allah does not guide the wrongdoing lot.

As was pointed out in a panel discussion organized by UNICEF last week, the breakdown of conflict economies with investment collapses and the loss of livelihoods and employment, combined with a stoppage of education and health services has severe long term negative effects on children.

But stock market declines that are not accompanied by steep and persistent collapses in earnings are by their nature temporary they are provoked by steep rises in perceived risk, and if those risks turn out to be overblown, stocks rebound when the perception of risk falls.

Full employment is better than high unemployment if it can be accomplished without inflation, Greenspan thought. If a bubble develops, and if the bubble does not deflate but collapses, threatening to cause a depression, the Fed would have the policy tools to short circuit that chain.

Once the link between reform and growth is broken as it has been in Greece his argument collapses. With no path to growth, the creditors demand for an eventual 3.5 of GDP primary surplus is actually a call for more contraction, beginning with another deep slump this year.

They may reflect deeper weaknesses in economic structures, such as a lack of competitiveness or institutional shortcomings. If Germany insists on national responsibility, it may find that enforcing the rules will have to be ever harsher, eventually leading to such social and political upheaval that the entire euro edifice collapses.

Then came the debt crisis of the 1980 s, the extreme nbsp structural reforms and financial collapses of the 1990 s, and a new global downturn in 2001. Such traumatic events plunged these countries into the so called middle income trap unable to grow nor to continue broadening their middle classes.

Then came the debt crisis of the 1980 s, the extreme structural reforms and financial collapses of the 1990 s, and a new global downturn in 2001. Such traumatic events plunged these countries into the so called middle income trap unable to grow nor to continue broadening their middle classes.

So, some societies, for subtle environmental reasons, are more fragile than others. And then finally, another generalization. I'm now teaching a course at UCLA, to UCLA undergraduates, on these collapses of societies. What really bugs my UCLA undergraduate students is, how on earth did these societies not see what they were doing?

Most notably, in the South and East China Seas, China has been staking its claim to disputed island territories, deploying advanced military hardware, and aggressively patrolling an expanded security zone. Meanwhile, leaks from Chinese think tanks have suggested that if the North Korean regime collapses, China could well send troops to preserve the country s stability.

Despite its brutality, the Assad government retains a substantial base of supporters who are willing to fight to the death to prevent the regime s collapse. Indeed, many Syrians believe that they have no future if Assad s government collapses a belief that has been reinforced as the civil war s dividing lines have become increasingly sectarian.

France s presidency of the EU during the second half of 2008 showed that dynamic leadership is a quality widely appreciated by the European public. With his sense of showmanship, Sarkozy almost effortlessly eclipsed Barroso when handling the Russia Georgia crisis in August, followed by the EU s responses to the autumn crisis of cascading bank collapses.

Will the world s trade ministers eventually sign a new multilateral trade agreement that reduces agricultural subsidies and industrial tariffs, or will they walk away empty handed? The saga has been ongoing since November 2001, when the current round of negotiations was launched in Doha, Qatar, with numerous subsequent ups and downs, near collapses, and extensions.

North Korea is perhaps the most noxious regime in the world today, and one can only hope that its cruel government collapses sometime soon. The Kim regime has clung to power despite being subject to severe economic sanctions, perhaps because China, fearing a united Korea on its border, has not yet been willing to withdraw its support.

It is also significant that big financial collapses occurred again in the 1970 s, after being virtually absent in the 1950 s and 1960 s, when the Keynesian system of managed economies and the Bretton Woods system of managed exchange rates was in place. The major post war crises that Reinhart and Rogoff consider run from 1977 to 2001.

The bond channel doesn t work when bond yields are already low and the credit channel doesn t work when banks hoard liquidity and velocity collapses. Indeed, those who can borrow (high grade firms and prime households) don t want or need to, while those who need to highly leveraged firms and non prime households can t, owing to the credit crunch.

And, as for protecting the financial system against disaster, the current majority on the House Financial Services Committee is clear they favor use of the bankruptcy system when megabanks get into serious trouble. If the eurozone crisis continues to spiral out of control, the US should expect to see Lehman or near Lehman type collapses among exposed financial institutions.