The West’s share of world output, population and science has fallen sharply since mid-century, mostly because other regions rose. The report tests this relative-peak thesis against open data.
Has humanity passed its peak? Dating eighteen indicators, the report finds no single summit: capability keeps compounding while fertility, institutional trust, shared culture and ecological stability peaked decades apart.
The flagship statement of the Polycrisis Apocalypse thesis: ten coupled pressures, ranked by how many people they reach, and nine original calculations showing when thin buffers turn separate shocks into compounding, persistent harm.
Where Survivability Risk Regions are, who will live in them as the demographic centre shifts, and what an exposure integral over 48,000 years implies. Third in the Polycrisis Apocalypse line, after HH-2026-24 and HH-2026-33.
Flagship report in the Architecture of Creation series. Can the architecture that lets a civilization emerge, expand and dominate also explain how it loses coherence? For Europe, a qualified yes.