“Apocalypse”: Lizzie Wade on the collapse and the rebuilding of civilizations

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“Apocalypse”: Lizzie Wade on the collapse and the rebuilding of civilizations

Writers, After Dark

1 hour 6 minutes 30 seconds

4 months ago

“Apocalypse”: Lizzie Wade on the collapse and the rebuilding of civilizations

Science journalist Lizzie Wade talks about how her interests in archaeology and anthropolgy led to her researching how apocalypses througout history have changed civilization.
Her curiosity about collapsing societies adapting to change and working to recover and rebuild led her to research how people lived through those transformations and things that changed to help people begin to thrive again. She goes into how archaeologists have found evidence of people collaborating and surviving after cataclysmic events, and how these should be looked at more often as endings that lead to transformations and new beginnings.
Lizzie also talks about the apocalyptic effects of colonialism and slavery can have, and how long-lasting those effects have been and continue to be on our current world, but she also talks about reimagining the possibilities for hope and rebuilding for the future.

APOCALYPSE: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures is available now.
Website: lizziewade.com
Substack: The Lizzie Wade Weekly
Science articles: https://www.science.org/content/author/lizzie-wade

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