If you were a druid from 180 AD and had Merlin's insight, what could you tell the emperor Marcus Aurelius about the coming collapse of the Roman Empire, and how to avoid it? That is the question raised and answered by Ugo Bardi, a professor of chemistry at the University of Firenze (Florence, Italy). Prof. Bardi is also an active writer on the problem of "Peak Oil" and its consequences for our civilization. His essay on Peak Civilization, delivered first as a talk to the Association for the Study of Peak Oil, was reprinted by the Financial Sense blog (here: http://www.financialsense.com/contrib... ). It runs 24 pages and bears a complete reading.

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