Dmitry Orlov (; born 1962) is an American engineer and writer on subjects related to "potential economic, ecological and political decline and collapse in the United States", something he has called "permanent crisis".John Gibbons, Punishing Greens puts climate crisis on back burner, The Irish Times, June 11, 2009. Orlov believes collapse will be the result of huge military budgets, government deficits, an unresponsive political system and declining oil production.
