The thesis of this work is that the present global civilisation will collapse by ca 2032, and it is too late to stop it. Humanity as a whole will then regress to a 'New Middle Ages' akin to the Dark Ages after the Fall of the Roman Western Empire in the 5th-6th centuries. Except this time it will be much quicker and more destructive. The 'dramatic lines', crises and catastrophes already tangible now (2012) will collectively converge. They will most likely reach their combined zenith in the latter 2020s. Their greatest impact will be felt in resource poor and over-populated nations first, while some of the wealthier Western nations and remote 3rd world nations will hold out longer. Eventually though all will succumb and the breaking point will be reached right across the globe. That breaking point being when their is literally no-where to escape to, and local conditions across the board will continue to disintegrate.Guillaume Faye rigorously examines these escalating crises one by one: environmental damage and climate change; the breakdown of a speculative and debt-ridden globalist economy; the return of global epidemics; the depletion of fossil fuels and of agricultural and fishing resources; the rise of mass immigration, terrorism and nuclear proliferation; the worsening of the rupture between Islam and the West; and the dramatic explosion of a population of the elderly in the wealthy countries - all of it leading to an unprecedented worldwide economic recession, an increase in localised and possibly large-scale armed conflicts...and perhaps worse. Still, Faye reminds us, we should not give in to pessimism: what we are experiencing is not an apocalypse, but a metamorphosis of humanity. We might have reached the end of what the Hindu traditions refer to as the Kali Yuga, the 'age of iron' marked by materialism and selfishness, but those who survive the catastrophe and chaos will perhaps build a new and better humanity...With a doctorate in political science fr