ABSTRACT
Most species eventually go extinct. For humans there are at least two possible types of extinction: collapse of complex civilization (a type of “super-organism”), and biological extinction of the species, Homo sapiens (or more precisely Homo sapiens sapiens). In this section I want to discuss from a mathematical perspective just a few fundamental weak links in the way society is now organized which could lead to its disintegration. Hopefully, suitable changes will be made so that social disintegration is made improbable.
