Sydney Writers' Festival: Luke Kemp: Goliath's Curse

When empires collapse, we understand this as historical failure rather than part of an inevitable cycle in the story of human civilisation.    

In Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse, Luke Kemp, a research affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, specialising in environmental and climate policy, reframes the history of civilisation over the past 12,000 years to explore why collapse happens and what it means for our future.    

Re-evaluate societal collapse with Luke, in conversation with James Bradley.