THE EXHAUSTED CIVILIZATION (Fault Lines)

By: EYASU DESALEGNE BEYENE

Drawing on public-health research, labor studies, demographic evidence, social data, and real-world policy examples, The Exhausted Civilization shows how exhaustion is built into the structures of daily life. Work follows people beyond working hours. Screens invade sleep. Industrial food systems turn stress and convenience into metabolic strain. Digital platforms fragment attention. Caregiving burdens disappear into households. Young people enter adulthood already tired. Loneliness becomes a health crisis. Falling birth rates, delayed family formation, and civic withdrawal reveal that fatigue is no longer only personal, it is civilizational.

Written in the same serious, evidence-led spirit as the Fault Lines series, this book gives readers a clear language for what many already feel but struggle to explain. It turns private depletion into a visible social pattern.

The Exhausted Civilization is a book for workers, parents, students, caregivers, educators, clinicians, policy-minded readers, and anyone who has looked at modern life and wondered why simply living now feels so heavy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H23NLYHB
• ISBN13: 9798197240392
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"