Collapse is multicausal and rarely abrupt

Evidence

Collapse, environment, and society (PNAS)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Traditional social structures and orders can disintegrate over time; Traditional societies and structures can collapse under external pressures; Metropolitan complexity forces exact punctuality to prevent social collapse — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 751

Broader Connections

• Metropolitan complexity forces exact punctuality to prevent social collapse #complicates (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 751
• Traditional societies and structures can collapse under external pressures #qualifies (0.70)