Our era is accumulating a growing body of evidence that something truly dark threatens the future of our planet. Civilization seems on the verge of collapse, even if this process unfolds over many decades. Faced with this crisis, which for the elites is existential in nature, Jason Moore offers a far-reaching diagnosis. He calls it the Great Implosion and considers it the most likely outcome, not so much of the irresponsibility and consumerism of an essentialized, capital-H Humanity, but rather of the contradictions of the Capitalocene, the great age of capital.