13. Re-Framing the Threat of Global Warming

Using a systems dynamic approach, this chapter suggests that a Causal Loop Diagram (CLD) can be utilised as a means to build an evidence base of the relationships between climate change, food insecurity, and societal collapse. Reviewing relevant literature, the authors define a set of primary and secondary determinants of societal collapse, establishing an empirical evidence base which then allows for the authors to construct a CLD to illustrate the identified causal relationships. This chapter helps to develop readers’ understandings of the existential threat of climate change, and the causal pathways through which it may pose a risk to humanity, therefore bettering possible risk management and future prevention methods.