The term collapsology was coined by Pablo Servigne and Raphael Stevens in their book How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual For Our Times. It denotes the transdisciplinary study of the risks of collapse of our industrial civilization. Collapsology is a systemic approach recognizing that the climate, energy, economic, geopolitical, and social systems (among others) are interconnected complex adaptive systems, each with their own independent feedback loops. Viewed from this perspective, it's hard to see that our present course will result in anything other than the collapse of our industrial civilization and its replacement with...something else, at a much-reduced level of complexity.