From the deforestation that caused the collapse of the Mayan civilisation to the fatal breaches in the mega-dam of Marib, the capital of Sheba, man-made environmental catastrophes have often set the precedent for the fall of empires. - Rarely has the planet concurrently experienced such peril. Policy profiteering from Tibet to Angola has ensured the co-modification of every inch of “discovered” land. We’re skating on thin ice: though GDP has more than doubled during the past 25 years, over 60% of the environment is critically exploited, from fisheries to farmland. Monetised industrial economics, formulated on the basis of financial and intellectual capital, is delinked f…