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The Seneca effect, or Seneca cliff or Seneca collapse, is a mathematical model proposed by Ugo Bardi to describe situations where a system's rate of decline is much sharper than its earlier rate of growth.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 17 relations: Asymmetry, Business Insider, Club of Rome, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Fossil fuel, Haymarket Media Group, Hubbert curve, Joseph Tainter, Kodak, Mathematical model, Seneca the Younger, Societal collapse, The Limits to Growth, Tim Jackson (economist), Ugo Bardi, Vice (magazine), World3.

  2. Economics curves
  3. Peak oil
  4. Seneca the Younger

Asymmetry

Asymmetry is the absence of, or a violation of, symmetry (the property of an object being invariant to a transformation, such as reflection).

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Business Insider

Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.

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Club of Rome

The Club of Rome is a nonprofit, informal organization of intellectuals and business leaders whose goal is a critical discussion of pressing global issues.

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium

The Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Latin for "Moral Letters to Lucilius"), also known as the Moral Epistles and Letters from a Stoic, is a letter collection of 124 letters that Seneca the Younger wrote at the end of his life, during his retirement, after he had worked for the Emperor Nero for more than ten years.

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Fossil fuel

A fossil fuel is a carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants and planktons), a process that occurs within geological formations.

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Haymarket Media Group is a privately held media company headquartered in London.

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Hubbert curve

The Hubbert curve is an approximation of the production rate of a resource over time. Seneca effect and Hubbert curve are Continuous distributions, economics curves, Equations and Peak oil.

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Joseph Tainter

Joseph Anthony Tainter (born December 8, 1949) is an American anthropologist and historian.

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Kodak

The Eastman Kodak Company, referred to simply as Kodak, is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in film photography.

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Mathematical model

A mathematical model is an abstract description of a concrete system using mathematical concepts and language.

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Seneca the Younger

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (AD 65), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.

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Societal collapse

Societal collapse (also known as civilizational collapse or systems collapse) is the fall of a complex human society characterized by the loss of cultural identity and of social complexity as an adaptive system, the downfall of government, and the rise of violence.

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The Limits to Growth

The Limits to Growth (often abbreviated LTG) is a 1972 report that discussed the possibility of exponential economic and population growth with finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation.

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Tim Jackson (economist)

Tim Jackson (born 1957) is a British ecological economist and professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey.

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Ugo Bardi

Ugo Bardi (born 23 May 1952 in Florence, Italy) is a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Florence.

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Vice (magazine)

Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.

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World3

The World3 model is a system dynamics model for computer simulation of interactions between population, industrial growth, food production and limits in the ecosystems of the earth.

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See also

Economics curves

Peak oil

Seneca the Younger

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_effect

Also known as Seneca cliff, Seneca collapse.