Summary

Coming into this topic few months back I was determined that the future looked bleak because of the lack of progress with the reduction in CO2, the unrest in Middle East and the world's general progress on climate change. I have say that looking through the different factors I explored in the blog it confirms my initial thoughts. A comprehensive review has been given to examine these factors. This blog has given summary of the different factors, which in most cases tends to be evidence for greater future societal disorder. At the same time, drawing from historical examples we get to see how our ancestor coped with the problems they faced.

The Mayans was an example of civilization thinking they had the technologies to cope with climate changes but in the end failed to do so and payed for their exploitation of nature. This is a lesson for the world and that we shouldn't overly relay on technologies as a method of mitigation. Climate related problems should be tackled at the onset. Indeed there are global targets that are in place to prevent climate change by curbing the levels of emissions, but the world is way too inefficient at working together and a new framework is needed.

However, there are many different ways to reduce the likeness of societal disorder. For example water and food insecurity could be tackled in many ways, but it mainly depends on the effectiveness of local institutions. Weak and corrupt institutions especially in the developed world reduces level of mitigation and increases vulnerability, as in the case of most African countries.

One thing to mention is that societal disorder doesn't mean societal collapse. Societal  disorder refers to factors that hinder the progress of societies. This blog has given physical and human factors that leads to that. The future looks bleak and given the lack of progress with climate related international/regional/national policy, coupled with ineffective government in developing countries, people are looking more vulnerable to climate induced disorder that ever before!