New update post for my living literature review on societal collapse: https://existentialcrunch.substack.com/p/april-2026-updates
This means I go back to the old posts and add new papers I found, to make sure that everything stays as up to date as possible. Posts which got updated this time:

* What could go wrong? (https://existentialcrunch.substack.com/p/what-could-go-wrong): Added a summary of the future forecast by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence and a paper by Jessica Graham et al. which discusses how the Swiss national risk assessment can inspire other countries like Australia.

* End time economics (https://existentialcrunch.substack.com/p/end-time-economics): Added a paper by Simon Blouin et al. that estimates how destruction of infrastructure leads to decreased industrial output, to better understand the potential effects of a nuclear war.

* Systemic risk and the polycrisis (https://existentialcrunch.substack.com/p/systemic-risk-and-the-polycrisis): Added a paper by Nicholas Studzinski et al. which discusses how systemic risk might be governed at an international level.

* Economic inequality and societal collapse (https://existentialcrunch.substack.com/p/economic-inequality-and-societal): Added a paper by Guido Alfani et al. which compares inequality in the Roman and Han Chinese empires.

* Trade collapse (https://existentialcrunch.substack.com/p/trade-collapse): Added a paper by Jasper Verschuur et al. that models the economic importance of all major global ports.

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