At this point this isn't an authoritative list. Some key terms are missing, other non-essential ones are included.
- Notions from Surplus Energy Economics
- Notions from John Vervaeke: domicide
- Notions from Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (2019), see Weekly wiki discussion series : CollapseNetwork
- Notions from Joseph Tainter - What is Transformation?
- Terms from John Michael Greer - How Civilizations Fall - A Theory of Catabolic Collapse (2005)
- Terms from Richard Heinberg's books
- Terms from James Howard Kunstler's books
- Terms from Joseph Tainter's books
- Terms from The Lexicon.org: words to change your world
- Indexes and glossary from Long Descent
This is written as Markdown with Python Markdown Extensions (Table of Contents, Definition Lists, Abbreviations, Footnotes, Meta-Data, etc.). I use Sublime Text with the MarkdownPreview package as described here.
As work continues this format will probably become unwieldy, we should reassess.
It's meant to be included (or linked to) in the /r/collapse/wiki.
Some terms aren't the best fit for the concept they're meant to put across. Others designate new notions that haven't yet got a name but would warrant one.
Mark with an Identify / Coin tag.
Some of the concepts – while useful – are not directly related to collapse.
Mark with Tangential.
In the interest of minimizing clutter they could be taken out.