Pandemic, climate change or war - our era is saturated with the aroma of Judgment Day. Modern films, books and other sources are filled with creepy fantasies about life after the apocalypse. We imagine terrible, abandoned cities and returning to the ground in a desperate attempt to survive. In his book, Chris Begley argues that our ideas about how disaster occurs are fundamentally wrong. Using the example of the collapse of past civilizations, such as the Maya and the Western Roman Empire, the author shows that this is, rather, not a collapse as a result of a cataclysm, but a long process of gradual changes. Some people abandon their homes and neighbors. Others band together to start over. What matters most is what happens after the event that triggered the reaction. Begley emphasizes that communities, groups of people, and not individual heroes survived the end of the world. And so it will be during the next apocalypse. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.