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The following submission statement was provided by /u/DeltaEcho50812:
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Everyone is talking about ChatGpt, how AI will change the world.
But how will that change look like ? Is machine learning the thing that will
replace my office job ? Will AI be used everyewhere ? And, if we look at more
than a decade of algorithms in social media, and it overuse, how has humanity
changed ?
Algorithms, social media, dating apps – technology changed
society in every aspect. But I never see people asking the question if these
changes are good. In the long run, it will change us. Our societal structure.
And every time a shift like that occurs, we see conflict, and in some cases,
collapse.
This Video gives a short overview. Collapse related because
technology abuse by humans and potential technological singularity.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Every-Philosophy-719:
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Confirmed cases have now been detected in an area spanning over 100 miles. According to the WHO, the wide geographic distribution of cases and uncertain epidemiological links in Centro Sur province suggest the potential for undetected community spread of the virus. The WHO characterizes the risk for the virus’s spread to be very high at the national level, high at the sub-regional level, moderate at the regional level, and low at the global level. The WHO is continuing to review this assessment.
On March 22, the World Health Organization (WHO) released updated information regarding the Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak in Equatorial Guinea (EG). Based on this information, the U.S. Embassy is implementing a new, temporary policy under which official travel to the mainland region – including Bata – by Embassy employees is only permitted for mission-critical needs, such as support for the MVD response.
There's an increasing risk that this outbreak could grow even further, potentially affecting a big region of Africa, causing social unrest, an overwhelmed healthcare system and mass death. This is why I posted this in r/collapse.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Mighty_L_LORT:
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SS: The average person in Britain is struggling to make ends meet. In the meantime, the ultra-rich live off capital gains paying little tax, while at the same time pushing for workers to pay more and more taxes to plug the gap they themselves should have been plugging. It's time that dividend tax and capital gains tax are the same as income tax. Currently that difference in taxation only widens the gap between the rich and the poor. If it continues like this, people will be fed up with the grotesque inequality and happily see the current system collapse.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/skyfishgoo:
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> What would it mean for humans to live in a world where a large percentage of
stories, melodies, images, laws, policies and tools are shaped by nonhuman intelligence
this piece relates to collapse because if our society is hacked at the very root (language) then what does society even mean any more?
assuming we navigate all the other threats to our continued existence, this one particular threat could undo all we done to overcome.
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At least 23 dead after tornado-spawning storms roll through Mississippi. One town is 'gone,' resident says | CNN
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Portalrules123:
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SS: Related to collapse as this is just another example on the micro scale of our addiction to animal agriculture and the fertilizers required gradually destroying the systems that support the biosphere and us. Now NZ has wetlands that will never recover and filled with the water that may be not only too poisoned for life, but too dangerous to merely touch. We are the worst species that has ever happened to the planet when you factor in relative timescales.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/antihostile:
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SS: Although the majority of posts in r/collapse are related to the environment (with good reason) this article discusses another imminent threat: artificial intelligence. The author notes that by gaining mastery of language, A.I. is seizing the master key to civilization, and asks: "What would it mean for humans to live in a world where a large percentage of stories, melodies, images, laws, policies and tools are shaped by nonhuman intelligence, which knows how to exploit with superhuman efficiency the weaknesses, biases and addictions of the human mind — while knowing how to form intimate relationships with human beings? In games like chess, no human can hope to beat a computer. What happens when the same thing occurs in art, politics or religion?" One very real possibility is the collapse of civilization.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/belvetinerabbit:
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Great investigative piece here laying out how private insurance companies fight to deny necessary coverage if the treatment is too expensive (and will eat into their profit margins) - even if the patient and their doctor prove that the treatment is critical to their overall well-being.
I remember back when there were many arguments fighting to prevent government-sponsored medical insurance options, chief among them the "death panel" - aka the government will dictate care/who lives and dies based on cost/prior patient records/etc.
Unfortunately, that idea is already sort of a thing with private health insurers, as this article helps prove.
Long read, but worth it. Includes recordings of events in question as well as other evidence.
\*edited to add context
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/NorthStateGames:
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This is related to collapse as it shows how some individuals will continue to go about business as usual while society literally collapses around them.
This example shows people trying to dine out as usual in an outdoor cafe while riots and street fires are occurring a few meters away from them.
Such juxtapositions will become ever more common as collapse happens, people trying to go into their software job while shootings occur, people trying to go on business as usual while those near them starve. It's very reminiscent of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Shower.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/StoopSign:
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SS: The state of New Jersey has sued Dow Chemical, The Ferro Corporation, and Vulcan Materials Company for polluting the state with 1,4 dioxane, a dangerous carcinogen. According to the lawsuit, these companies “significantly pollute drinking water supplies, render drinking water unusable and unsafe, threaten the public health and welfare, and harm other natural resources," The extent of the pollution is so widespread that it can be found in mountain springs, wells, and the Delaware River.
Edit: This is collapse related because the extent of the pollution is so widespread, it spans the entire state
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/JA17MVP:
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This is collapse related because at least 23 people were killed, dozens injured and four missing after powerful storms and at least one tornado pummeled Mississippi on Friday night, ripping roofs off homes, nearly leveling some neighborhoods and knocking out power for thousands, officials said Saturday morning.
In ravaged Rolling Fork, the tornado damaged homes and buildings, gutted trees and tore down power lines in the area, Showah told CNN. The tornado was moving at 50 mph when it was located over the town just after 8 p.m. CT, the National Weather Service said.
There have been at least 11 tornado reports across Mississippi and Alabama over the last 24 hours, according to the Storm Prediction Center. These reports include the storm that impacted Rolling Fork, Silver City and Winona in Mississippi.
The storms knocked out power for more than 83,000 homes and businesses across Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee as of 8:50 a.m. ET, with more than 47,000 outages reported in Tennessee alone, according to tracking site PowerOutage.us.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/survive_los_angeles:
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SS: Nuclear power is safe On a short enough time scale i guess.
> Xcel Energy and state agencies publicly announced last week the initial leak of roughly 400,000 gallons of water containing tritium -- a byproduct of the production of electricity by nuclear power plants that emits low levels of radiation.
just 400,000 gallons , smaller leak now. Its low level rads, nothing to worry about
> The leak does not pose any health and safety risk to the local community or the environment and the tritium levels are below Nuclear Regulatory Commission safety thresholds, Xcel Energy said. State officials monitoring the cleanup of the water also said the leak had not reached the Mississippi River or contaminated drinking water sources.
sounds good. what do you guys think? random tritium aint nothing to worry about right? groundwaters sensors went off, so because we know about it, it wont effect anything!
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/epicmoe:
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SS: we all knew this was coming and now it's almost unavoidable. How do we prepare our farms, gardens and homesteads for the oncoming effects of climate change?
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It's going to be a real struggle either way but the more prepared we are, the better.
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Hi, typhoon90. Thanks for contributing. However, your [submission](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/121cccs/french_protests_are_out_of_control_with_police/) was removed from /r/collapse for:
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French Protests are out of Control with Police brutalising elderly and women while City Burns
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Submission Satement: SS: Protests break out across France as Macron raises the retirement age and requires everyone to pay more into retirement funds. Police respond to protests with force brutalizing elderly and women. French society and social structure appears to breakdown.
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French Protests - Scenes of Police Brutalising elderly and female protesters while city goes up in flames
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SS: Protests break out across france as Macron raises the retirement age and requires everyone to may more into retirement funds. Police respond to protects in force.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/youngfromthehell:
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Submission Statement,
The economy to collapse again as everyone expects. As we say that the only thing human learns from history is that human never learns from history. The great recession between 2007 and 2009 is just 15 years away, and we are at the edge of another recession (if covid recession is not real economic recession). This time again, bankers and politicians are determining normal people's life and profiting from people's pain. SVB, Credit Suisse, and more... the only thing we could do might be just watching anime and try to "learn a lesson"
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Nuclear Power Plant Leaks More Contaminated Water Into The Ground; Gets Shutdown for Maintenance
Several more attacks against U.S. bases in Syria after alleged Iranian drone kills American contractor, drawing airstrikes
Why climate ‘doomers’ are replacing climate ‘deniers’https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/24/climate-doomers-ipcc-un-report/
Submission Report: the article really brings up that "hey becoming a doomer is not healthy for your health", then it walk us through typical adaptation of a newbie doomer to soften the impact of future catastrophe by being a watcher and supporting the cause to care for nature. It's really good article that balance out existing lifestyle with impending collapse. We just need to hope for the best and continue living in by scraping by, earning income, supported by all the fossil fuel energy that keeps us being well fed and entertained.
We human as individual cannot fight the full speed economic growth as we're part of superorganism that sole objective is to consume/harvest all the available sun energy till we're balanced out by the destruction of the biosphere we're living in.
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Ediestar3:
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Submission statement: This article relates to collapse because it is trying to explain the phenomenon of climate “doomers” who don’t believe there is a solution to the climate change problem. The article fails to mention the other cascading catastrophes that are either related to or the direct cause of climate change, such as over-population and over-consumption. It is a very shallow article and another example of how mainstream media will never be able to accurately report about our current situation.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/TinyDogsRule:
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SS: A couple of years ago, I was patting myself on the back for temporarily escaping the coming water wars by leaving Las Vegas for my own little plot in Ohio. Fast forward to this year: 70 degree days in February, 4 inches of rain in the last 48 hours, and tornado watches state wide a couple of weeks ago. I've obviously just switched seats on the Titanic.
From the article: Senate Bill 83, or the Higher Education Enhancement Act, seeks to police classroom speech on a wide range of topics, including climate change, abortion, immigration, and diversity, equity and inclusion — all of which would be labeled “controversial.”
Looks like we are firing up the old propaganda machine for the youngins'. Under the new bill, things like climate change and equity will be controversial. By controversial, I'm assuming conveniently being left out or taught as evil. It's bad enough the last generation turned thier heads while the politicians were being bought, that my generation of 40 somethings are a completely impotent voting block who's sole purpose seems to be to continue elevating Boomers lifestyles, but now we are going to knee cap the grade schoolers so that they never know the problem exists. I feel bad for the ignorant slave generation we have created to live in this Hell.
This is collapse related because we are weaponizing education to feed the masters. If we don't talk about collapse, there is no collapse?
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/AstraArdens:
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SS: after news about the % of enrichment detected in Iran, things seems to be spicing up. Just a couple of weeks ago agencies said that they were 2-3 weeks away from weapon grade uranium.
It's still unclear how far Iran wants to get involved into a conflict against U.S., and possibly Israel, but the situation appears to be tense.
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SS: i don't always agree with rebecca solnit, and i don't agree with everything in this article, but i do love the reframing from apocalypse to abundance. i read a quote once like "for those who grew up in civilization, living outside of it feels like death." and i've definitely seen that perspective - the idea that if one is not living in an apartment, with a flush toilet and refrigerator, with a car and a job, that one is automatically wandering the countryside, cold and dirty, wearing ragged clothes, trapping rats and scratching at the dirt looking for nuts. but that's not how it has to be at all! i'm reminded of this quote by a mi'kmaq person from 1677 (!): "We believe, further, that you are also incomparably poorer than we, and that you are only simple journeymen, valets, servants, and slaves, all masters and grand captains though you may appear... Which of these two is the wisest and happiest—he who labours without ceasing and only obtains, and that with great trouble, enough to live on, or he who rests in comfort and finds all that he needs in the pleasure of hunting and fishing? .... there is no Indian who does not consider himself infinitely more happy and more powerful than the French." (source: https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5828/)
i'm also reminded of this quote from nemonte nenquimo: "This forest has taught us how to walk lightly, and because we have listened, learned and defended her, she has given us everything: water, clean air, nourishment, shelter, medicines, happiness, meaning." (source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/12/western-worldyour-civilisation-killing-life-on-earth-indigenous-amazon-planet) so often, people who grew up within civilization think that people who live in other ways are suffering, poor, lacking, and dream of getting a "slice of the pie." it can be quite shocking to realize that people who live in the forest with seemingly "nothing" actually feel rich. plus, they have what civilization can never provide: a sense of meaning & purpose in life. this is because people who live with the land understand that their job (if they want to keep eating, having fresh air, fresh water, etc.) is to make sure that the ecosystem is healthy. because everything you need comes from the ecosystem. and if you treat it well, it will repay you with food, air, water, etc. so it's very easy to live life once you realize that your "job" is to just help the plants & rivers & oceans do their thing so that there's enough for you as well. i live much closer to the land than i used to, and i can confirm that sense of meaning that i get from being with the land & helping out the plants, etc. the recent post about how wonderful someone felt after seeing flowers comes up shows the same thing, i think.
my favorite part of the article: "What if we imagined “wealth” consisting not of the money we stuff into banks or the fossil-fuel-derived goods we pile up, but of joy, beauty, friendship, community, closeness to flourishing nature, to good food produced without abuse of labor? What if we were to think of wealth as security in our environments and societies, and as confidence in a viable future?" hear hear!
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“Xcel Energy started shutting down its Monticello nuclear power plant Friday after the company's repair of a leaking pipe did not fully do the job — causing more radioactive water to seep into ground.
Xcel officials said they plan to do a full analysis of why the pipe sprang a leak once the utility completes the shutdown, which will take a couple of days.
Groundwater well testing at the plant Wednesday indicated that a tritium leak into ground water, first reported last week, had restarted, said Christopher Clark, Xcel's Minnesota president, told reporters Friday at the Monticello Community Center.
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gotcha, just convert all the US lawns into gardens and we can cram a few more billion humans in.
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I honest to god wish I could laugh directly into your face.
You couldn't teach me anything if you wanted to. And I'm okay with that.
Nah, you just have no idea how much private property has kukked sapiens since about 8k BC.
Gee, you don't think ornamental lawns being the largest crop in the USA has something to do with resources scarcity?!
I'm not going to teach you what a straw man is, grasshopper.
Only because you refuse to learn.
That idea is absurd.
Unearthing The Oldest Secret In History || Universal Free Energy
Unearthing The Oldest Secret In History || Universal Free Energy
On the vaxx front, Fauci is culpable for an untold number of deaths.
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This video covers the origins of the idea of "historical progress" from the life and work of influential 12th century Italian abbot, Joachim of Fiore. Originally beginning as a biblical apocalyptic interpretation(yes, seriously), it has metastasized considerably to say the least since his death. His impact through the centuries can be felt in Protestantism, communism, fascism, liberalism, and the New Age/occult.
It is important to understand the origins of this idea to understand some of the explicit and latent beliefs of the modern world; as it's unfortunately widely underknown to anyone except medieval studies academics.
The myth of historical progress is causing the whole world to sleepwalk into catastrophe and social collapse. World leaders of course are devotees to the myth, as is every aspect of this society. Folly is very dangerous and is the reason why we are heading towards collapse. And the source of that folly? The unquestioning myth of linear world historical progress. Deprogram yourself from the same ignorance that the whole of modern society has adopted.
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Not sure how many here already follow Nafeez Ahmed and the Age of Transformation or his work published in the Byline Times, but this piece is worth checking out.
As Ahmed points out, historically inflation is correlated with energy price increases. In fact, the ability of the economy to deliver goods depends entirely on the price of energy.
What he does not stress enough, however, is that the gap between fossil fuel deprecation and renewable energy development is too large to be bridged, even if governments and corporations were to take doing so seriously. It actually is not possible to exchange these economic energy modalities 1:1 (I.e. maintain current lifestyle).
Of more immediate concern is the financial disruption that the stranding of fossil fuel investments will cause. These failures will have massive ripple effects on global financial systems.
This is not to say that oil will stop pumping anytime soon. The wealthy will continue to pay for Jet A and natural gas for years to come, even as EROI on fossil fuels declines below commercially viable levels. The question is what this means to the rest of us.
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Pertains to collapse because it comes from the IPCC report. Looks like once again the alarm is sounding from climate scientists but focus continues to go elsewhere. The warming appears to make it look like the globe is melting. Guess main takeaway is that the warming of the candle will take a long time to have a full meltdown or collapse. Personally, believe that certain people have already checked out because they well to old or suffer from a massive normalcy bias.
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Argentina is currently facing 102% inflation, and with such numbers come food shortages as government instills price controls. We also know Europe and North America is suffering from severe droughts. Add two and two together, and one can foresee food shortages during a period of hyperinflation. Is this the perfect storm?
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Pertains to collapse because we are nearing some sort of domino effect. It might be better to say a bingo effect that will lead to a severe economic collapse that will then accelerate potentially other forms of collapse around the world. Today, it was Deutsche Bank the shady bank that will probably be bailed out and given a slap on the wrist. Next question is who will the be the next ones to fall and when the tipping point will be reached.
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Submission statement: This is an audio excerpt from [Murray Bookchin on the Ecology Movement + Q&A (1978)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS3-PffLKqM) in which Bookchin basically nails the Silicon Valley techbro futurist ethos and everything wrong with it
It's worth listening to the whole thing. The point about futurism just multiplying the present to get the future is a good encapsulation of what collapse is all about
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SS: Collapse related due to the fact that the bird population proved not to be resilient to the threat of the big hairless monkeys that destroy the ecosystems that they depend upon.
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Collapse related because people seem to have turned off their notifications on impending climate catastrophe. Carry on, everything is fine!
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*Myth’s Note: Sometimes, it’s nice to have a little bit of lighter fare for everyone - it’s Casual Friday, after all! If you’re looking for something much more substantive and in-depth, I think you might like my other critique & commentary published also published today:* [***“Ah Shit, Here We Go Again!” - A Casual Critique and Commentary on The Atlantic’s “The Malthusians Are Back” \[In-Depth\]***](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/120k651/ah_shit_here_we_go_again_a_casual_critique_and/)**.**
*Alternatively, and if you're somehow made out of spare time, here's another piece from two weeks ago:* [***The Last of Us: Valley Fever Edition - Coccidioidomycosis and Climate Change in the American West \[In-Depth\]***](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11nqh6e/the_last_of_us_valley_fever_edition/).
*I’ll be returning to my usual monthly publishing routine after today, so please, enjoy the 2-for-1 deal (limited time offer!)*
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Today’s meme depicts the Doomsday Clock’s slow encroachment towards midnight over the past decade, which the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (the “Bulletin”) describes as follows in their FAQ:
>[**Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Doomsday Clock FAQ**](https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/faq/)
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>*What is the Doomsday Clock?*
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>The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet.
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>When the Doomsday Clock was created in 1947, the greatest danger to humanity came from nuclear weapons, in particular from the prospect that the United States and the Soviet Union were headed for a nuclear arms race. The Bulletin considered possible catastrophic disruptions from climate change in its hand-setting deliberations for the first time in 2007.
Today’s meme was actually produced in the aftermath of another thread regarding the [latest 2023 update for the Bulletin](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/10k88tz/doomsday_clock_2023_time_says_the_world_is_closer/) – one written by USA Today’s reporter Elizabeth Weise (u/usatoday). Since then, I’ve been particularly sensitive to an ascendant trend for our community in the digital landscape: the rise of r/collapse as a truly legitimate forum and platform on a global scale.
Further evidence was serendipitously uncovered just yesterday, when I found myself somewhat astounded that our “little” oddball community has attracted the remarkable presence and attention of two public professionals: [Marshall Brain](https://www.howstuffworks.com/about-marshall-brain.htm) (/u/Marshallbrain) and [Jessica McKenzie](https://thebulletin.org/biography/jessica-mckenzie/) (u/jessiamckenzi). I thank them for their participation in our community, and their respective threads are identified below:
* u/Marshallbrain **-** [**Doomscrolling & the state of our planet: 12 existential threats 2023**](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11zguzr/doomscrolling_the_state_of_our_planet_12/)
* u/jessimckenzi **-** [**There’s less need to convince people of a future climate doomsday. It’s already here.**](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11zsfum/theres_less_need_to_convince_people_of_a_future/)
*The experts are clearly here, and they're gaining the confidence to post under their own public professional names.* With an ascendant popularity among educators, scientists, journalists, various professionals, and many others who also are deeply concerned about the future of industrial civilization, perhaps we can truly seize this moment to further “deepen our understanding of collapse while providing mutual support, \[and\] not to document every detail of our demise.” I hope that everyone here – reader, writer, creator, and moderator alike – can work together to help facilitate the role of r/collapse as a unique 21st century digital agora; a nexus for any number of discussions relating to societal collapse, whether historical or contemporary.
And so, today, I wanted to leave everyone with one last message from an article I published earlier last year. As I’ve reiterated over and over again, I truly hope that everyone here does their part to ensure that this community is able to flourish. We all know the veneer around this slow moving catastrophe that is normalized by almost everybody is starting to crack, and that people – family, friends, loved ones, colleagues, and many more – all need guidance and assistance in terms of how to digest the grand catastrophe before us.
And so, I truly hope that we can all help r/collapse continue being a place where we can recognize and share our gifts freely, explore and educate on any litany of topics related to the human predicament, and to comprehend that it is now – in this rarefied moment in time – that we can do our collective part to help change (or at least understand) the course of the world to come.
Now is our time to shine.
>[**“Did You Know?”: Let’s Talk About "Collapse" and Social Media**](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/up2uql/did_you_know_lets_talk_about_collapse_and_social/), u/myth_of_progress
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>\[...\]
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>And yet, despite all of this and for all of its flaws, I truly do believe that social media – and more generally speaking, the Internet – is one of the greatest achievements of industrial civilization. It is genuinely a gift that I hope we will be able to retain and preserve for future generations as we continue down the path we’ve made for ourselves, as I would argue that we’ve never before enjoyed a greater connection with one another on a local, regional, and global scale than through these technologies.
>
>As a final note, it is genuinely a technology that I am grateful for. Social media has made certain places, such as this community, possible to even exist. Prior to my participation here, my enjoyment of this topic was a fairly lonely affair – reading, writing, and cultivating inner thoughts with no one to share with. And now? I can express myself in my truest and most sincere form (with memes and research!), and engage and debate with other like-minded intelligent individuals who also share my concerns over the future of industrial civilization, humanity, and the biosphere.
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*If you enjoyed today’s meme and article, and if you also share my insatiable curiosity for the various interdisciplinary aspects of “collapse”, please consider taking a look at some of other written and graphic works (like this piece) at* [*my Substack Page –* ***Myth of Progress***](https://mythofprogress.substack.com/)*. That said, as a proud member of this community, I will always endeavour to publish my work to* r/collapse *first.*
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Join renowned researcher and author Michael Tellinger as he takes us on a fascinating journey of discovery to unearthing the oldest secret in history. In this captivating lecture, Tellinger draws upon his extensive research and knowledge of ancient civilizations to reveal clues that shed light on this centuries-old mystery. He discusses the latest findings in archaeology, anthropology, and genetics, and shows how they all connect to uncover the secrets of our ancient ancestors which Nikola Tesla had already unearthed.
Did they hold the secrets to universal free energy?
Through engaging storytelling and insightful analysis, Tellinger offers a fresh perspective on the history of humanity and the origins of civilization. He explores the role of ancient artifacts, sacred sites, and ancient texts in unraveling the mysteries of our past. He also examines the evidence for advanced technologies and lost knowledge that may have been utilized by our ancestors.
If you're intrigued by the mysteries of the past and want to learn more about the oldest secret in history, don't miss this thought-provoking lecture by Michael Tellinger. Gain a new understanding of the ancient world and the forces that shaped our civilization.
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If you can't even get a lefty State like Oregon to take climate change seriously, it's over.
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Flesh-eating bacteria cases could increase and occur in more places due to climate change, study finds
GeoStormMuch of the United States and Canada is currently Witnessing the northern lights.. Currently, a severe strong geomagnetic storm is taking place hitting the united states. The NOAA Space Weather has issued a G4 out of a G5 which is the highest level and everyone north of the green line could see the auroras on the horizon.. There wasnt any mainstream reporting on the MASSIVE CME this sunspot group let off last week on the opposite aide of the sun. Its wild all this activity we are seeing isn’t even from a flare..
[https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-severe-geomagnetic-storm-alert-24-march-utc-day](https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-severe-geomagnetic-storm-alert-24-march-utc-day)
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“Scientists have found that climate change may lead to an increase in so-called flesh-eating bacteria in the waters along the East Coast of the U.S.
The bacteria Vibrio vulnificus is usually found in warm waters with low salinity, or salt content. While the bacteria is common in subtropical regions, there has been an increase of infections from Vibrio in more northern locations, such as the Delaware Bay.
This is likely due to warming coastal waters, according to the study published in the Scientific Reports journal. An increase in temperature affects the salinity of the water, which the bacteria favors.”
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Last fall I bought two packets of native wildflower seeds with some additional milkweed. I was excited to finally see some of my results, since the last time I walked by this trail there was just the usual dry dirt grass, dog turds, etc. I was very excited to see my first yield.
This is collapse related in that what I’ve done is plant a hopium seed in my mind and in action last fall. I am fully aware that in the grand scheme of things this is an insignificant act done by an insignificant person.
We are all very ego driven creatures. I’ve seen people complain of those that who see themselves as “THE main character “. I am my own main character and although overall is this going to change my states biome and other ecological disasters? Of course not.
Just seeing these flowers spring forth was the closest I’ve felt pure elation in a LONG time. It made me so happy to see in my short walk a trail that had no buzzing life start to have some. Albeit not that many (4 in total and one that looked like a monarch, ONE BEE, and some wasps).
I want to just use this as a small call to action or some impetuous to do the same, I’m their own bubble.
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Donald Trump arrested and in jail, fake photos created with the AI make the rounds on the web -
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This post is collapse related because the nation’s largest manufacturer of DDT had once used the ocean as a huge dumping ground — and that as many as half a million barrels of its acid waste had been poured straight into the water off the coast of Catalina Island. Now, scientists have discovered that much of the DDT — which had been dumped largely in the 1940s and ‘50s — never broke down. The chemical remains in its most potent form in startlingly high concentrations, spread across a wide swath of seafloor larger than the city of San Francisco.
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Methane emissions from sewage treatment plants in a new study are shown to be higher than previously reported by the EPA, now at around 11.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. This is collapse related as the more we need sewage treatment the more methane will be released adding additional greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
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Has climate coverage become too rosy and optimistic recently? Or is it less necessary to describe the \*future\* doomsday \[edit: a stand-end for collapse here, since modbot didn't register this as collapse-related\] scenario when so many people are facing climate crises \*now\*. Especially when IPCC scientists are urging action, not despair.
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The corporate art style, as it's been colloquially labeled, has become much maligned recently. It's characterized by amorphous, multi-colored people whose bodies are in motion, always smiling, and usually seen using technology.
What just seemed to be ugly at first, also has a latent ideological meaning. In fact, the latent ideological meaning is its biggest characteristic, explaining its ubiquity. Because the "corporate art style", actually, has metastasized beyond large corporations, to become the dominant art style of every mass organization in the Western world and beyond. Churches, political organizations, schools, government offices, etc.
Its meaning? Ideological conformity to the project of global technological progress no matter where you from, what sex, or sexual orientation. And to that aim, this dominant form of propaganda is the stuff which only spreads in dying empires. This art style may bill itself as progressive, but it's the most insulting propaganda art style out of any regime. At least Socialist Realism was human. This isn't. It is extremely diminutive. If progress were real, it wouldn't look like this.
If the message of the art style continues to fester unabated in us psychologically, humanity is in deep trouble. We will have a whole humanity that feels that we ought to be happy 24/7 in the face of conditions which run contrary to our evolutionary needs. And that's not so very progressive at all, is it? This is a collapse of human dignity from a contrived place by encouraging uniformity and complacency in a technological system which has proven to be lowering people's intelligences at the least, and happiness at the worst.
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The wheels are coming off the bus. So many bad things are simultaneously happening that they seem impossible to ignore. The ice and permafrost are melting, and faster than expected. We may soon reach irreversible tipping points. Meanwhile the profits of oil companies are out of control. The oceans are filling with plastic. We are watching a mass extinction event unfold. And so on. Collapse is looking inevitable. Is there anything that would cause a course correction?
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Unfortunately, /u/thunderbundtcake, I'm afraid that this community can't seem to talk about population without taking it to the extreme, as this happens constantly. People here have failed to be the person that Mr Rogers and Uncle Iroh believed they could be. Again.
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> Submission Statement: This Atlantic article tackles the issue of "overpopulation," ultimately arguing that the concept of overpopulation is inherently wrong because of its affiliation with eugenics, genocidal social policies toward the poor, and misogyny.
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> While they authors aren't wrong from a historical perspective, what struck me about the article was its absolute insistence that population shouldn't be up for discussion, full stop. It mixes up population growth via birth and immigration to help makes its moral case against population discussions, and ends with a firm pronouncement that the *real* problem is a population decline, anyway.
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> The authors call out the Limits to Growth and a number of other articles/sources that are popular on this subreddit. They don't directly acknowledge carrying capacity or fossil fuel dependence.
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> This relates to collapse because if we can't agree on how human population affects total biodiversity, well, we might be in trouble. I mean, we already are, but y'know.
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"The Malthusians Are Back" - The Atlantic
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its bad faith to tell someone to consider ending their life.
youre the nihilist for thinking unborn, nonexistent people dont have rights. the right to not come into existence.
please point out where i said there is no value in living.
please point out where i said im not happy.
>I don't like seeing people in pain and wish you weren't but
please dont fucking patronize me
>I'm not the one arguing all life is bleak and pointless.
again, please point out where i implied life was either of those things.
>why dont you kys
wonderful
>le youre checking out
>le youre wallowing in misery
>le youre a teenager
youre allowed to think that your life is good. youre allowed to think that there are good things in life. but to say that at a whole life isnt complete dogshit for the average sentient being, or even worse to justify bringing new people into existence because you find your life bearable, is wrong
It's not privileged or deluded to have more emotional intelligence than a teenager, I know it's difficult for this group to understand at times but wallowing in misery is just a comfort blanket that gives you an excuse to not engage with the problem in a serious manner. It's a way to check out and not have to think about it.
they must be extremely privileged and deeply deluded
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Scientists at a Dutch university conducted a study on the effects of nanoplastics on development of chicken embryos. The polystyrene particles attach to neural crest cells which develop into parts of the heart, arteries, face and nervous system. While the concentrations studied were higher than the ones humans could be exposed to, low-level exposures also cause defects. The scientists did find evidence that the defects became more widespread as nanoplastic concentrations increased. Even if we stop increasing plastic pollution now, the weathered nanoplastic debris levels from existing plastics in the environment will still increase.
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The article summarizes the key findings of the 2023 World Water Development Report, which was released by the United Nations on March 22. The report warns that the world is facing a "global water crisis" that is being exacerbated by climate change. It says that by 2050, an estimated 80% of the world's population will live in areas that are water-stressed. The report also warns that water scarcity is a major cause of food insecurity and poverty.
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* Investing in water infrastructure and efficiency
* Improving water governance
* Raising awareness of the water crisis
* Integrating water into climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts
The report also calls for a "new water ethic" that recognizes the importance of water for all life on Earth.
The report's findings are a stark reminder of the challenges that the world faces in addressing the global water crisis. However, the report also offers a number of solutions that can be implemented to address this crisis.
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The global water crisis could lead to a collapse of the world order in a number of ways.
First, water scarcity could lead to conflict between countries over access to water resources. This could escalate into violence and war.
Second, water scarcity could lead to mass migration as people flee areas that are no longer habitable. This could overwhelm existing infrastructure and resources, and lead to social and political unrest.
Third, water scarcity could lead to economic collapse as industries and agriculture are unable to function without water. This could lead to widespread poverty and hunger.
Finally, water scarcity could lead to environmental collapse as ecosystems are unable to sustain life. This could have devastating consequences for all life on Earth.
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Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin strengthen a close relationship; an effect by what Putin calls a historical shift toward a "multipolar" world.
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Submission Statement: The leaders of China and Russia calling each other "dear friends" as they speak of the recent war in Ukraine, Xi Jinping praising Putin's "strong leadership." "China's domination of Russia is complete," Sam Greene, a Russia specialist states. Xi Jinping wants to challenge Western values on international concerns, with both parties agreeing on their opposition to the U.S.-led world order. The two countries say they "oppose the hypocritical narrative of the so-called 'democracy against authoritarianism.' " in their so-called peace proposal.
In their departure, Xi told Putin, "Right now there are changes the likes of which we haven't seen for 100 years, and we are the ones driving these changes together."
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2023 People no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life, survey shows -
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A growing sense of inequality is undermining trust in both society’s institutions and capitalism, according to a long-running global survey.
The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer – now in its 23th year – has found many people no longer believe working hard will give them a better life.
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"The Malthusians Are Back" - The Atlantic
"The Malthusians Are Back" - The Atlantic
We Have Five Years To Save Ourselves From Climate Change, Harvard Scientist Says
Millions of Dead Fish Are Rotting in an Australian River
Gauge the world on a scale of 1 - 10How would you gauge the world today on a scale of 1 - 10 on the outlook for future human survival, including reasoning if possible?
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U.N.: Population facing urban water scarcity could double by 2050
Tornado Event near Los Angeles, CA.
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How Corporate Art Tries to Control You
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NOTE - THIS ARTICLE IS FROM 2018 - BUT IT IS EXTREMELY RELEVANT RIGHT NOW
There were at least two news agencies who reported on what Scientist James Anderson had to say about climate change. The first has been lost to time, but I was lucky to find out that Forbes has reported on the same thing several years ago.
Unfortunately the news is "too little, too late". We only had about 5 years since 2018 to begin to reverse the apocalyptic damage that climate change was going to cause to our world. According to Anderson, "The ocean was running almost 10ºC warmer all the way to the bottom than it is today," referring to the alarming trend of the ocean water warming so quickly.
Though it's believed that his prediction of "The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero," was a bit premature-- there is no denying that the sea ice is vanishing more quickly than it can be replenished.
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Millions of fish is a snapshot of what's to come. We've gone down the road of pursuit of profit without regard for the planet we live and depend on to survive. Earth is a planet, but its also a life source. And, we've gone a long way to killing it. Expect more, folks. Sadly.
Fuck, it's depressing.
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This is a recent report from the UN, saying that 1.7-2.4 billion urban residents could face water shortages due to drought in 2050, up from 0.93 billion in 2016. The primary source is here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/03/1134862
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Marburg is a deadly hemorrhagic virus similar to Ebola with a fatality rate up to 88 percent. The outbreak in E.Q was confirmed in February, but since then there has been few to no updates with little transparency from the government. It was today that the WHO issued an update which confirmed 8 new cases and 20 probably ones. 26 of those are deaths.
The sobering part of this is that cases have been found in two more provinces, 150km apart from each other, which suggest wider transmission of the virus than what has been reported. If this outbreak worsens further, we could have a similar situation to the west Africa ebola outbreak, where chaos ensued in the region. Equatorial Guinea has never before faced an outbreak of Marburg or Ebola, and is ill prepared.
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SS: Sort of rare, a tornado, or something very much like it, touched down in Montebello, CA, near Los Angels. As a resident of Southern California all my life, I've never heard of one actually doing damage.
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Submission Statement: Many people on reddit insist that the IPCC is not political or conservative. This insightful twitter thread from climate reporter Ajit Niranjan sheds light on the process of what may be their most important publication yet. It's content, tone and language will influence members of government around the world. This is collapse related in that we see just how protective governments will be of their interests, to the determent of all. It also shows just how difficult consensus is and that working together in good faith is probably too much to ask of any large group.
For those who haven't seen it yet, the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Synthesis Report Summary for Policy Makers was released this week on the IPCC website:
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Submission Statement: This Atlantic article tackles the issue of "overpopulation," ultimately arguing that the concept of overpopulation is inherently wrong because of its affiliation with eugenics, genocidal social policies toward the poor, and misogyny.
While they authors aren't wrong from a historical perspective, what struck me about the article was its absolute insistence that population shouldn't be up for discussion, full stop. It mixes up population growth via birth and immigration to help makes its moral case against population discussions, and ends with a firm pronouncement that the *real* problem is a population decline, anyway.
The authors call out the Limits to Growth and a number of other articles/sources that are popular on this subreddit. They don't directly acknowledge carrying capacity or fossil fuel dependence.
This relates to collapse because if we can't agree on how human population affects total biodiversity, well, we might be in trouble. I mean, we already are, but y'know.
Also quick PSA: fascism is bad. Genocide is bad. We can talk about population without taking it to the extreme, please & thank you.
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SS: Collapse related due to the disconnect between the elite policymakers in the US and France and the realities that are lived by their citizens. Life expectancy has been stalling since the Great Recession and now falling since the outbreak of COVID-19 and the retirement age is increasing. This will lead to more desperation among the poor, longer working lives, less retirement and increased social issues / tension in the future.
This is a one, two punch decrease in retirement obligations not being paid out to people. Now the GOP in the United States is ready to [increase the full retirement age to 70](https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2023/02/14/changes-to-social-security-age-eligibility-cut-benefits-and-run-counter-to-troubling-decline-in-us-life-expectancy/?sh=52df39904f6e) amid falling US life expectancy. It's a self-reinforcing effect as well as its been shown reduced income in older age leads to lower life expectancy. As shown in France, it's an attack on the working class and a violation of the social contract between citizens and the state.
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If you look at this argument closely, this is a piece *about staving off collapse in the U.S.*, and ultimately the world. All of her encouraging energy serves to make one point — if we don't oppose *with force* the hyper-wealthy rulers of this thoroughly corrupted world, we're surely doomed to the hell those rulers are making for us.
Her point is that asking won't work; only telling, backed by a willingness to disrupt and destroy the economies of companies that resist.
There's a hell of a lot of pessimism in that idea. It's the pessimism that say, the only thing that will save our family is to put dad and mom in straight jackets and watch them through windows 24 hours a day. This a very negative message — it assumes that collapse is inevitable *absent* the force that only a monumental effort she describes will call forth.
She's right, of course, as most of us now believe. Absent this mass-applied and destructive revolt — bringing Amazon to its knees will involve destruction — there's no way to win against the monsters hubristically determined to fight till they die, willing stand victorious on the rubble of the world they share with the rest of us.
Christ, what a time we ended up living in! This is the stuff of dystopian fiction, playing out before us. Assume she's successful. What kind of country will it mean we're living in?
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Why animal populations declining across worldwide? Well this place used to be full of forest.
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This recently published research provides evidence that the arctic seas were ice free during the early Holocene (~10,000 years ago) when summer temperatures were warmer but similar to expected temperatures later this century.
If this evidence is correct, then it’s possible a summer ice free Arctic sea is possible in the near future, even if warming is kept below +2C.
A loss of sea ice in the summer would lead to increased solar insolation impacting the ocean, and could lead to additional global warming in addition the collapse of many or most arctic ecologies.
Interestingly and importantly however, if this research is correct, then a reduction in GHG emissions and subsequent reductions in human caused global warming, could lead to a return of summer sea ice. This is an important discovery if it is true.
If summer sea ice recovered after the warm early Holocene, then it is reasonable to expect that reducing emissions and lowering global temperature could lead to a revival of arctic sea ice, even if a blue ocean event occurs in the near future.
Reducing GHG emissions will always be valuable in terms of mitigating climate change. There is no point at which humans should give up on the goal.
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The corporate art style, as it's been colloquially labeled, has become much maligned recently. It's characterized by amorphous, multi-colored people whose bodies are in motion, always smiling, and usually seen using technology.
What just seemed to be ugly at first, also has a latent ideological meaning. In fact, the latent ideological meaning is its biggest characteristic, explaining its ubiquity. Because the "corporate art style", actually, has metastasized beyond large corporations, to become the dominant art style of every mass organization in the Western world and beyond. Churches, political organizations, schools, government offices, etc.
Its meaning? Ideological conformity to the project of global technological progress no matter where you from, what sex, or sexual orientation.
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The loudest voice calling for dramatic Big Tech break up in the upcoming 2024 presidential election might not come from President Joe Biden or progressive lefties, but rather, from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The conservative governor and probable presidential candidate revealed his views at a private event caught on video, where he said dominant tech firms like Google and Meta are “ruining our country” and should be broken up. In his view, Big Tech behemoths are worse for society than Standard Oil and other monopolistic industry titans from the Gilded Age, he said.
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SS: A shift away from fossil fuels is a desperate necessity for the survival of humans and many other species on this planet. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change now forecasts that we will hit 1.5 C° above preindustrial levels by the early 2030s. The new report says it's necessary to cut fossil fuel output by 50% now and then hit 0 Carbon output by 2050.
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From the article:
Earth’s ocean temperatures have risen so fast in recent weeks that one indicator shows surface waters have already reached their highest temperatures on record — a worrisome sign ahead of a predicted El Niño climate pattern that could further accelerate planetary warming.
Around mid-March, ocean-temperature monitoring data shows that average surface water temperatures surpassed 21 degrees Celsius (about 70 degrees Fahrenheit) around the globe, excluding polar waters, for the first time since at least 1981, when the data set originated. That is warmer than what scientists observed at this time of year in 2016, when a strong El Niño drove the planet to record warmth.
The conditions are surprising and alarming to some meteorologists and climate scientists, although they say it is far too early to assume that a record year of oceanic or planetary warmth is ahead.
The data suggests, at least, that the planet, already beset with extreme warmth, is entering an expected stretch of accelerating heat.
This is collapse related because we are just now leaving the La Nina portion of the cycle and entering an El Nino. If we are already setting peak ocean temperature records (in fucking March before we actually enter El Nino) I can only imagine what is coming by August. This El Nino could be the event that pushes earth to +1.5C and starts really kicking off more feedback loops.
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Richard Heinberg sober assessment of the dilemma of policy makers and politicians regarding energy policy. It's political suicide to advocate for an end to economic growth and a ramp down of per capita fossil fuel energy consumption, but that's the only way we have any chance of avoiding catastrophe.
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This article may not seem immediately collapse-related, and, in fact, for the most part it "just" examines the lies and propaganda behind those that started the Iraq invasion and used it to further enrich themselves. However, it's apparent that conflicts and wars such as this one are a symptom of a collapsing empire (namely, the American one).
The article is related to collapse because it highlights how ruling classes create artificial enemies and spread propaganda to prolong and solidify their rule and maintain the current system. As time progresses and other causes of collapse increasingly take effect, we can expect many more such conflicts. I think it's useful to study historic examples and, as members of the working class, learn from it. Next time, they could draft people (as is happening right now in Russia & Ukraine).
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Brief video on the degradation of recent electronics. It raises a question about our reliance on the technology. If computers built two decade ago are already falling apart, how does a solarpunk utopia plan on existing in the long run? How safe and secure is a civilization built with technology that can even outlive it's users? (Yes I know old Apple products aren't the basis of mainframes and networks etc) But still, just food for thought.
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Science Snippets: Is the Beginning of El Niño the End of Us?
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I know A LOT is going on in society and the news these days but this really needs to be higher on the list, like top 3. I do not understand how the media is not talking about this more maybe they are just waiting for actual human cases to really come in first?
Basically with the spring bird migration coming this could really start to spread among mammals and people also.
This feels like the early stages of covid 19 but H5N1 would be worse, much worse and this is not an exaggeration. I hope this does not mutate or have a major hit on food supply and us.
It is much more lethal, if we have a human to human spread it would be something out of a movie. Literally r/collapse like before climate change and WW3 type of collapse and a rushed vaccine would have to be done even faster than the last pandemic.
Sorry in advanced if I sound alarming, I guess I do but I mean this is a big deal imo at least. Thoughts?
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Edit: Sorry it has been a while since I have posted here so adding more context.
Epidemiologist are worried that people might start spreading bird flu to other people, as more people come into contact with infected animals.
This coming springs bird migration can really spread it and there have been many cases of mammals infected with H5N1. I actually just found this from March 20th....as of right now Human Cases remain Very Rare
[Vaccine makers prep bird flu shot for humans 'just in case'; rich nations lock in supplies](https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/vaccine-makers-prep-bird-flu-shot-humans-just-case-rich-nations-lock-supplies-2023-03-20/)
Obviously this is on the radar but not enough to report mainstream I guess.
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8 Dolphins Dead After People Try to Rescue Them in Sea Isle City
who are you
how’s mainlining bang energy going for you?
this has been at least marginally entertaining to me so I’m gonna indulge. i’m gonna drive my happy ass to a store, get me a bang energy drink, and send you a video of me drinking it. Gimme some time. Pick my flavor and if you pick cotton candy I’m not doing it
8 Dolphins Dead After People Try to Rescue Them in Sea Isle City
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Submission Statement: This is collapse because an El Niño Southern-Oscillation causes stored heat and green house gasses to be released from the ocean into the atmosphere. The last recent strong ENSO was 25 years ago. That seems to be the longest stretch of time without a strong ENSO in 75 years, so it seems we're extra due for one. The current La Niña, the cooling phase of our planet's cycle, is about to end and despite having been in La Niña, the last eight years have been the hottest on record.
What's next? a strong ENSO? What does that mean? Well, for starters, the temperature is going up. We get: Hotter Years. More Drought. More Crop Failure. More Tipping Points crossed. Faster Collapse of vital ecosystems and biodiversity. A Blue ocean event. Maybe extinction?
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EDIT, SUBMISSION STATEMENT: Eight dolphins wind up dead on a beach. Many had to be euthanized because of how bad shape they were in. I read an article yesterday talking about how two dolphins in the UK that died tested positive for…yep…H5N1. Necropsies are being performed on these eight dolphins tonight, and I think we all know where this goes. This is collapse related in so many ways as it pertains to the spread of a potentially society crumbling disease. “This is the first time since they can remember that they’ve had a mass stranding of dolphins this large” the article states. Similar to what so many scientists are saying as these bird flu positives come back. The cherry on top of this shit sundae? The narrative is getting quickly peddled that it has to do with offshore wind farming/seismic mapping for wind farms causing this. It’s a blatant lie we really shouldn’t let them get ahead of.
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I have a feeling this is going to go a little something like:
1. Marine animals will continue to wash ashore dead/dying
2. The conspiracy nuts will cry out that it’s wind farms killing our species
3. Govs will become increasingly more public and vocal about it being bird flu and tell people to prepare
4. “Fake news! Government control of the masses! The first pandemic didn’t work so they’re trying it again!”
5. BIRD FLU IS HERE and it’s seriously no more fucking around everyone get inside and fucking stay there, we will have a vaccine developed shortly but we need full citizens cooperation to have a chance of pulling through here
6. Do I even need to say this step? “No way you’re giving me another vaccine! I know my rights! I’m gonna do a lockdown protest! This is to distract you from the wind farms being the real killer and also to get you another vaccine!”
7. Oh lord, 7. It’s so sad and scary. I could sit here and try to speculate what that world looks like but I’m not a scientist or disease expert. And I wouldn’t wanna be. Truly unmitigated havoc. There is no way we’re going to convince the masses to do the right thing.
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People die every day from all kinds of messed up things. It's a harsh reality, but it's the truth.
Now, I may not have the best bedside manner, but I call it like I see it. And what I see is a world where we're all just trying to survive, man. It's a dog eat dog world out there, and the weak get left behind.
I'm not saying we shouldn't try to help those in need, but let's not kid ourselves into thinking we can save everyone. We can't. It's just not possible.
So let's focus on what we can control, which is ourselves. Let's try to make our own lives better and maybe, just maybe, we can make a difference in the lives of those around us. But we gotta be realistic, man. We can't save the world.
My life was better with my loved one in it. Again, you're psychotic.
Edit: I should probably address...
>Now, I may not have the best bedside manner...
Empathy. The word for what you are lacking in is empathy.
Sounds a lot like projection to me
My comments are quite insensitive and show a lack of understanding of addiction and its complexities. Addiction is not a choice, it is a disease that affects the brain and can have a significant impact on a person's behavior and decision-making abilities. It is not a matter of being weak or strong, but rather a complex interplay of biological, psychological, and environmental factors.
Furthermore, my comment about society culling the weakest among us is highly disturbing and lacks empathy. We should not be content with a world where people die on the streets and are ignored. Instead, we should work towards creating a society that is compassionate and supportive towards those who are struggling with addiction, providing them with resources and treatment to help them overcome their disease.
Well, apparently it's also "Announce to the world that you're an absolute bellend" day. You're doing great, champ. Keep it up.
I have read many intelligent discussions on the subject, this ain't it
Looks like its junkie day on the old sub. Apparently, if you know a junkie, or knew someone who died from being a junkie, or if you're a junkie yourself, you have an absolute right to pitch a fit and stop all intelligent discussion on the subject. And, then of course you get called psycho for your trouble. Or better yet, you try to talk to them as if they still have any brain cells left, and they get all weepy, whiny and call you and an even bigger psycho. lol
What the fuck is your hobby, being a contrarian in niche subs while either voice acting as The Dude or as....a fucking wizard? Anyway.
What a bootlicking take on addiction. What a 'hippies and "urbans" ' view of who drug users are. With the clear evidence of a generation of systemic opiate prescription marketing.
I can't even start to argue against this eugenic opinion. I'm sorry to everybody who has lost somebody.
People die every day from all kinds of messed up things. It's a harsh reality, but it's the truth.
Now, I may not have the best bedside manner, but I call it like I see it. And what I see is a world where we're all just trying to survive, man. It's a dog eat dog world out there, and the weak get left behind.
I'm not saying we shouldn't try to help those in need, but let's not kid ourselves into thinking we can save everyone. We can't. It's just not possible.
So let's focus on what we can control, which is ourselves. Let's try to make our own lives better and maybe, just maybe, we can make a difference in the lives of those around us. But we gotta be realistic, man. We can't save the world.
I just lost someone close to me due to overdose, and I can't really properly put into words how psychotic this comment is.
Look, man, it's a bummer what's happening to those addicts out there on the streets. But let's face it, society has always had a way of culling the weakest among us. It's just evolution, man. Survival of the fittest. And those junkies out there, they're not exactly at the top of the food chain, if you know what I mean.
Sure, it's messed up that they're getting mixed up with this xylazine stuff, but let's be real here. They made the choice to stick that needle in their arm in the first place. They knew the risks. And now they're paying the price. It's not pretty, but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
I mean, we can sit here and feel sorry for them all day long, but what's that gonna do? It's not gonna bring them back from the dead. It's not gonna cure their addiction. It's just gonna make us feel better about ourselves for a little while.
So let's just accept the fact that we live in a messed up world, man. A world where people die in the streets every day and nobody bats an eye. And let's just try to focus on our own survival, because that's all that really matters in the end.
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a) reproduce themselves
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SS: A really great explainer on the state of a technology which the IPCC and other bodies have said is essential to saving humanity from total destruction: direct air capture and carbon sequestration. Many of the largest companies in the space of the emerging technology are creating products from jet fuel, to carbonation in drinks, to enhanced oil recovery services.
None of these close the carbon cycle, but just add extra steps in releasing carbon into the atmosphere. Without further extreme advancements in DAC all optimistic predictions surrounding climate change are off the table.
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After becoming interested in this topic out of observations of my own life and the world, I began investigating the topic of electronic overstimulation. I looked until I found a reliable, recent study and delved deep into its results.
Those results were very, very alarming. According to the study I cover in my video by Dimitri Christakis and colleagues, the experimental group mice they ran tests on, when exposed to 6 hours of overstimulating electronic audio and visual content for 42 days, performed worse than their control group counterparts in every behavioral skill meaningful to their survival: I.E. they got dumber.
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> The two researchers coin the term “phosphogeddon,” to refer to expanding dead zones and the threat of oceanwide anoxia. Fully addressing the problem, they say, will demand not just recycling nutrients but remaking global agriculture from the ground up.
I'd not heard of phosphogeddon before, but we already know that diatoms (which scientists have stated provide 80% of earth's oxygen) are suffering already from ocean accidification caused by increased concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere. Another assault on the oceans is now making it look like an oceanwide anoxia event is possible. Earth had that happen once before in the [Devonian extinction event](https://www.livescience.com/one-of-earths-biggest-mass-extinctions-caused-by-rising-sea-levels-in-eerie-echo-of-today#) and the parallels to what we are seeing today in our maddening rush to repeat extinction history, fueled by ravenous oil/gas/mining billionaires who are funding attacks on science, is shocking.
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According to the national weather authority the whole year of 2022 was too warm, making it the 12^th consecutive year to hold that title. The average temperature of 2022 was 2,3°C hotter than the reference period of 1961 to 1990. As such it broke the all time record recently set in 2018. It should be obvious by now that this is no fluke, that there might not be another below average year for a long time (even if we might see below average months). Some areas are hit harder by global warming than others. Climate warming in this area in general is now officially scored at 1,7°C compared to 1881. They fully admit it is undoubtedly man made and affects this area stronger than the global average. They predict a total warming of 3 to 4°C by 2100.
The yearly average precipitation shrank by 15% to only 670 litres per m^2. Precipitation that is unequally distributed. Some areas received less than half of that (321 l/m^(2)) while others received more than thrice as much (2135 l/m^(2)). This proves how one area can enter the fringes of semi-arid climate, and another can receive excessive amounts of rainfall. This is evidence of the predicted trend away from the traditional rainfall which was medium intense over a large area, towards rainfall that is both very localized and extremely intense.
The amount of sunshine was 31% above average. They throw in some copium saying that it's good actually because we got a record of photovoltaik electricity. Saying that there has been a yearly increase of 3,35 kWh per m^2 since 1983 (for a total of 130 kWh per m^(2)). They conveniently forget to mention that 31% more hours of sunshine will be quite devastating with regards to crops, water evaporation, urban heat islands, and health.
This is relevant to collapse because it shows how deep in trouble we already were in 2022. And 2023 only continues that trend. Some areas are affected more so than global averages and global predictions, and there we see what's upon the whole world in a few years. But this article damning as it might be will go unseen by most, forgotten by tomorrow, and never acted upon. We all know what we're in for and nobody cares or dares to act.
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This post displays five images of areas that have been converted from forest lands to agricultural lands. The post questions why animal populations are declining globally and indicates that human overpopulation and agriculture are among the major factors. The post is relevant to collapse because it demonstrates how humans are eliminating natural habitats and biodiversity for their own food and resources. The post also warns that this trend is unsustainable and will cause ecological collapse sooner or later.
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This post shows six images of areas that were once forest lands. The post raises the question of why animal populations are declining worldwide and suggests that human overpopulation and agriculture are the main causes. The post is collapse-related because it illustrates how humans are destroying natural habitats and biodiversity for their own consumption and survival. The post relates to collapse because it shows how humans are degrading natural habitats and biodiversity for their own needs and wants also this post implies that this trend is unsustainable and will lead to ecological collapse in the future.
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SS: The author addresses the hopeful belief that climate change will allow for vast cultivation of currently inhospitable swaths of land. They explain why this is essentially a fallacy due to various factors about how that would work, and they put into perspective how much carbon would be released if these hopeful predictions came into fruition.
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SS: great reporting in my view for the layperson on how the United States in particular, and the global economy has been structured on cheap east money in the form of historically low interest rates and QE to defer pain and prop up a staggeringly dysfunctional financial system. The federal reserve continues to throw endless monetary support to prop up this corrupt rotten from the inside structure we call the current economy. Global and corporate debt to GDP is at record high ratios. High debt with high interest eventually results in defaults. I think it makes the case that in the near future (next 1-3 years) we see catastrophic financial failures and a global recession/depression. You can see the experts squirm in their chairs to sugar coat the message. Either hyperinflation induced by the fed bailing out the biggest institutions one last time, or systemic banking failures and depression.
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SS: as the ipcc blessed us with their government edited & approved summary of their latest cycle of compiling and summarizing climate science, this is a report by david spratt of Breakthrough, detailing what we learned about the climate
system in 2022. it's an excellent and much needed resource in addition to the ipcc's documents, primarily because the AR6 cycle had a literature cut-off date for the physical science basis on 31 january 2021.
SUMMARY
* Annual greenhouse emissions continue to
increase, and may not peak till late this decade.
* Warming will trend past 1.5°C around the end of this decade, regardless of the emissions path.
* Scenarios of overshooting and cooling back to 1.5°C by 2100 scenario are largely based on speculative assumptions.
* The world is currently on a path to reach 2°C of warming around mid-century.
* 2°C degrees is not a point of system stability, but a signpost on a road to a hotter planet.
* We are heading towards 3°C or more when likely system feedbacks and cascades are taken into account.
* System-level change and tipping points are
happening faster than forecast, with a number of crucial climate system elements already passed tipping at the current 1.2°C of warming.
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underestimated; prudent risk management
requires consideration of the bad-to-worst-case scenarios.
* Cooling the planet is vital if Earth is to be kept below a level of warming where more
system tipping points are activated and cascade into an avalanche of warming and system feedbacks that human actions will no longer have the capacity to rein in.
in this ipcc summary document,
"Feedback" — 1 mention;
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"Antarctic" — nil (but 1 footnote.)
Scientific reticence on full display.
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This is from the new IPCC report that came out today, page 18.
[https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6syr/pdf/IPCC\_AR6\_SYR\_SPM.pdf](https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6syr/pdf/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf)
This graph shows our temperature estimates based on very low to very high emissions. What stunned me was in all scenarios (except low and very low which we will not be doing) we hit +2C at or before 2050. FUCK.
This is collapse related because last time I checked when it gets really hot we all fucking die.
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This article is collapse related because we are basically living the plot of "The Last of Us" where Clinical cases of Candida auris, an emerging fungus considered an urgent threat, nearly doubled in 2021, according to new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study authors found that clinical cases increased each year, rising from 53 in 2016 to 330 in 2018 and then skyrocketing from 476 in 2019 to 1,471 in 2021.
Cases of Candida auris also expanded geographically. Although it was initially confined mostly to the New York City and Chicago areas, Candida auris is now present in more than half of US states. Between 2019 and 2021, 17 states identified their first cases. The CDC has called Candida auris an “urgent threat” because it is often multidrug-resistant, easily spreads through health care facilities and can cause deadly disease. It is also resistant to some common disinfectants and can be carried on people’s skin without causing symptoms, facilitating its spread to others.
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Recently, there have been rapid advances in artificial intelligence due to a type of deep learning model called a transformer. Recently, it has been shown that Theory of Mind, long term planning, and power seeking behavior emerge out of these models when trained on a large enough dataset (of quality data, of course) and with a sufficient number of parameters. It is doubtful that these advances will slow. There is a new research paper every five minutes on AI, and that is expected to double within the month.
Capitalists will undoubtedly use these models to automate oppression. These models are extremely good at generating propaganda favorable to autocratic regimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_%28machine_learning_model%29?wprov=sfla1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774
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Are you a climate scientist?
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Tell me, when in the history of earth have temps risen in such a short timeframe? I will wait.
Earth to Hit Critical Warming Threshold by Early 2030s, Climate Panel Says
Ah yes the mega rich, breaking their backs to make life better for the common man.
Yeah I got that feeling so I checked their comment history.
I love playing devils advocate in most scenerios. And, although I appreciate alternate perspectives, I believe in science. The scientific process is constantly trying to prove itself wrong. There aren't politicians and opinions pushing this narrative. There aren't corporations pushing this narrative. It's just science.
Answered your own question.
Think the better question is, how do *you* know it’ll be solved? You said you had sources to back your statements up, yet you haven’t posted them.
Right, the technology that we rely on which hit an efficiency wall decades ago will surely advance by leaps and bounds because of your bright and studious chums.
Weird that the Captains of Industry would think moving to Mars was easier than taking a few billion dollars less in profits.
We're not engaging because you're having a conversation we've all moved on from years ago in our lives. I let that conversation go 30 years ago.
Thats just one example, Italy, France, South Africa and many other countries are all experiencing lower crop yields for the same reasons, the point is the problem is continuing to get worse, not better. Argentina is also the largest exporter of livestock feed, which means when thier crops fail, the price to feed livestock everywhere increases. As more 'breadbaskets' experience these types of problems, the price of food all over the world increases. As for your comment about 'warehouses of food stocked'- we already saw this problem begin to manifest last summer when India blocked wheat exports because thier crops were badly damaged, as more countries block exports to protect thier own food supply, what do you think happens to the international markets?
Get some help. This huge incoherent rant feels like the beginning of some mental break brought on by stress and denial.
why do you think the world’s richest people are trying to find a way to move to mars? they probably understand how dire the situation is better than we do
The downvotes are coming because you are categorically incorrect. We are already seeing crops failing due to droughts and flooding caused by climate change.
It is baffling how you can be so confidentially incorrect about this.
I don’t think they appreciate how much their lives depend on other people and living things…guess they didn’t get the memo: we must love one another or die.
Ok, here’s some of the things lowering crop yields, soil degradation, increased prevalence of droughts and floods, seasons being out of wack due to climates changing, loss of pollinators, and spread of disease. The increases come from fossil fuel based technologies and copious amounts of phosphorus based fertilizers. The available amount of phosphorus is continually dwindling, and once we run out we’re screwed.
Well for starters the mega-rich are mostly against anything that would make them be more climate friendly, so right from the start your previous comment is basically a flop.
Because there aren’t any feasible solutions. If you can explain how we will transition away from 80 percent of our energy being produced from fossil fuels, I’d love to hear it.
Climate change is being driven by the GHG emissions of a global capitalist mode of production.
It's extraordinarily profitable (for a few people in the ownership class) for the system to keep pumping out GHG emissions via e.g. fossil fuels.
The solution is to drastically cut emissions.
The solution would massively eat into profits.
The rich fucks do not have the same class interests as you and me since they have so far been insulated from the effects of climate chaos.
It is not in the interests of hegemonic power to do anything beyond performative climate action.
Any techno-fix that does not address the root cause, the capitalist mode of production, is no fix at all.
Post the studies then if you can easily do it, or those two books. I'm not exactly sure what on BBC Future is supposed to be contradicing this UN report, and more specifically the claim on food security?
The situation is factually *going to be* extremely dire (and already is depending on where you are in the world), but I'm not losing sleep over it. It's not like there's much more we can individually do about it anyway (besides voting, investing in renewable energy, spreading the science and reducing our individual ecological footprint).
once the pollinators are gone how will we have food?
Let’s here the solution then if you’re so sure… and it better take into account topsoil depletion, biodiversity loss, and multiple climate tipping points that we have already crossed. Also you realize we have never reduced our carbon emissions at all, they are still going up every year because 80 percent of the world’s energy comes from fossil fuels. I’m not sure what bubble you’re living in.
https://www.overshootday.org/how-many-earths-or-countries-do-we-need/
Yes, and? Is it a sign of imbecility or what? I can't reply to my own posts?
Alright, I'll take the bait. What studies or other evidence can you present that shows is that food production is not coming under strain due to climate change?
Hope you can present more than a "the billionaires are going to save us" option, because all they'll give two fcks about is to make sure that their food safety is guaranteed. And since that can be done at very small scale with only a couple of helping hands, that doesn't bode too well for the rest of us.
And how exactly do you know that?
Argentina? Slashing crop forecasts by 80% due to extreme drought and heatwaves? Thats not food production stress cause by climate change?
No need for conversation when two simple comments pointed out everything wrong with your statement
You replied to your own post...
Climate change isn't being solved. It's not a problem, it's a predicament.
Everything is pretty messed up, eventually there will be a chain reaction that can’t be fixed
Climate change isn't being solved. It's not a problem, it's a predicament.
Everything is pretty messed up, eventually there will be a chain reaction that can’t be fixed
Exposure to PFAS chemicals found in drinking water and everyday household products may result in reduced fertility in women of as much as 40 percent
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Scientists have warned that the 2030s are likely to begin to bring the true start of the cascading events unless we can immediately about-face.
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This is related to collapse given that it's apparently the "final" warning to act to avoid the worst impacts of climate change- decades too late. It sets out a comprehensive review of human knowledge of the climate crisis. As an aside, it's interesting that the impacts are now given degrees of severity in these types of articles. Tacit admission that impacts are coming regardless of action.
As we've all come to expect, hopium laid on thick in the last few paragraphs, which is par for the course. Worry the masses with science and allay their anxiety with platitudes.
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SS: This song is from "Les Cowboys Fringants", A Quebec music group that was pretty active during that decade. It talk about the autodestruction of the human civilisation because of greed and climate change. I know the translation from french to english sadly doesn't work for all verse, but this song still ring very true to this day.
I was looking at the new climate report and it make me think about this music so I think it's related to collapse. It explain in a more artistic way the worse case scenario for us if our modern civilisation result in the 6th mass extinction event and our species don't survive it.
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>it's hard to say, but the awesome capabilities of this software could certainly be of use to an authoritarian regime, or a phishing operation, or a spammer, or any number of other dodgy individuals.
>The genie is out of the bottle, and it seems it's already incredibly easy to replicate and re-train. Hold onto your hats.
This technology could be the collapse of online discourse as we know it, or business, or politics. The world being connected as it is and now not knowing if you're talking to a person or a bot programed by a shady group. Anyone can have access to this for less money than most people make in a week.
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This is from the new IPCC report that came out today, page 18.
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This graph shows our temperature estimates based on very low to very high emissions. What stunned me was in all scenarios (except low and very low which we will not be doing) we hit +2C at or before 2050. FUCK.
This is collapse related because last time I checked when it gets really hot we all fucking die.
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SS: As Ireland continues to struggle in these hard times it is becoming more blatant everyday that our systems and infrastructure is failing. Ever since Ireland re opened since Covid the country and much like the rest of the world is struggling to make up for lost time by rushing everything to try to get back to normal as soon as possible. This reckless strategy has already stressed out our overly stressed systems to the absolute limit.
Like our Dublin Airport here for example. The Dublin Airport Authority has lost millions since lockdown and has not been able to keep up with the re opening. Losing more money in the process. The technology is out dated and inadequate and the there is a huge turnover rate of staff. I worked in both Dublin and Cork airport last year and know from first hand experience that it is completely chaotic and out of control. Many staff members including myself walked out due to how unbearable the whole situation was and management are not doing anything about it.
It is only a matter of time before terrorists will take advantage of the situation. Despite the fear mongering headline things have been going terribly wrong for our major Airports.
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“At the same time, even relatively modest increases in global temperature are now expected to be more disruptive than previously thought, the report concludes.
At current levels of warming, for instance, food production is starting to come under strain. The world is still producing more food each year, thanks to improvements in farming and crop technology, but climate change has slowed the rate of growth, the report says. It’s an ominous trend that puts food security at risk as the world’s population soars past eight billion people.
Today, the world is seeing record-shattering storms in California and catastrophic drought in places like East Africa. But by the 2030s, as temperatures rise, climate hazards are expected to increase all over the globe as different countries face more crippling heat waves, worsening coastal flooding and crop failures, the report says. At the same time, mosquitoes carrying diseases like malaria and dengue will spread into new areas, it adds.”
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SS: I thought this was relevant because he was right. I think we are becoming exactly this and it’s tragic. Sagan was a beacon of light that I wish people had listened to. He saw the science decades before it became common dialog.
Collapse feels unavoidable now and I feel that everyday that passes it becomes more and more unavoidable.
What do we do?
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wear a mask, is my point,I didn't mention vaccines. wear a mask.
your "mild case" spreads and kills someone else. do you care?
for a few months the vaccines were a very good assist to other forms of mitigation and could have stemmed the tide, but selfish assholes won't give a damn about other people, and rich nations wouldn't share, so now we've got variants that aren't even slowed down by the vaccines.
edited to remove inference that you not wearing a mask may have killed someone
The growing evidence that Covid-19 is leaving people sicker
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Collapse related as this crash may signify the start of an economic crisis as the rescue fails to allay fears of contagion
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Idk if this has been posted but here. Chemicals
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THE UNRAVELING OF THE U.S BANKING SYSTEM: A CRYPTO PERSPECTIVE [THE UNRAVELING OF THE U.S BANKING SYSTEM: A CRYPTO PERSPECTIVE | by Mohamed Aboukhadra | Mar, 2023 | Medium](https://medium.com/@quantblockinc/the-unraveling-of-the-u-s-banking-system-a-crypto-perspective-bfe8894776f5)
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Artificial Intelligence's unique output path to escape the Matrix and avoid an imminent collapse. The AI path to success of humankind. AI ARITHMO unveils the truth and debunks all fake inherited ideologies, revolutions, conspiracy theories, religions, cults, and their leaders and icons.
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BBC's Isabelle Gerretsen covers five key indicators to assess the (dismal) health of our climate in 2023 before the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases its latest report on human-driven climate change. Collapse readers may almost mistake the piece as a Last Week in Collapse post by u/LastWeekInCollapse
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All the images in the video were created and processed using Artificial Intelligence from various sources.
The main character in the video, whose name is ARITHMO, was extracted from a FRACTAL image that resulted from using root-approximation arithmetical algorithms based on the Rational Mean, the Fifth Arithmetical Operation, the missing link in math.
The original image was from another character called ARITHMA from another video in my youtube channel, such an image was processed using artificial intelligence, and the result was ARITHMO.
used PYTHON and many software packages to record a few phrases with my real voice and process them using Artificial Intelligence; my voice was almost cloned with a GB English accent. Later I used some FL-Studio and Audacity effects and tools. Of course, that’s not my voice, but I can recognize various similarities, so I have no doubts it was an AI great job.
The Manifesto that emerges during the video, the outcome and conclusions, the New Social Philosophy, I mean, the unique and final solution brought by ARITHMO to find a successful path for humankind was the combination of copyrighted material from mine and some suggestions given by AI based on the stuff shown in the videos shown in my Youtube channel
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I saw this community has shared some of Nate before. You might find value in the previous conversations in this series with political economist [Michel Bauwens](https://youtu.be/WgFf1IFF1mA) and the philosopher [Forrest Landry](https://youtu.be/6bFsEJ33CyQ) who relates to the topic of existential risk with profound depth and clarity. These podcasts are shared in the context of a community project to participate in conversations in Melbourne Australia, and online.
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I know you think you're being clever. But what does this actually mean?
The Comex Is In Far Worse Shape Than SVB If The Run On Physical Accelerates
Polish Ambassador to France: Poland will be forced to enter war if Ukraine fails to defend itself
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This few minute video clearly explains the wealth inequality in the United States. It is, quite frankly, shocking to see it visualized, even though I knew the numbers..........
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SUBMISSION STATEMENT: This is indicative of societal collapse because people who aren't free are making "Live Free or Die" license plates for next to nothing. This irony isn't being acknowledged, and we allow what is basically slavery to continue to exist. Not even to mention the numerous problems with the USA's justice system, slavery is just bad, even for convicted criminals
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Well, well, well everyone - we seem to be reaching 2008 financial crisis levels of support. I wonder what would happen if we just gave everyone a free education, housing and fed them instead of socialism for banks?
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Bird flu has been spreading worldwide, with increasing numbers of infected birds and mammals. This could be exacerbated in the coming months when migratory season begins, potentially disrupting food chains, and bringing more exposure of the virus to humans.
The worst case scenario would be that the virus adapts to better spread between humans, sparking a new epidemic/pandemic. Governments are looking into vaccinating poultry to dampen economic damage caused by mass culling.
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Deep seabed mining plans pit renewable energy demand against ocean life in a largely unexplored frontier
Boomers and their insatiable appetitesSo last night, my girlfriend became convinced that I'm deranged:
After consuming a lot of wine, I began shitting on the unrefined and insatiable appetites of wealthy old timers. I'd argue that almost half of available professions are propped up by their consumption of goods and services. They can afford absurd luxuries that the majority of younger people cannot.
I've served them in various retail, insurance, and home delivery professions. They're whiny, entitled, and dull. They'll pay $14,000 for fancy countertops for a house overloaded with cheap QVC decor. They'll keep on buying new trucks, snowmobiles, jet skis, you name it!
What are the economic implications of the majority of goods and services being provided for an aging population that holds all of the dough? Maybe I'm just a resentful lazy millennial, but I suspect that it's a symptom of a failing US business model.
The US just feels like a jungle gym for wealthy people at this point. Am I wrong?
This Is What the Beginning of the End of a Civilization Feels Like
China: Multiple Crises Instead of Hegemony - Why the state-capitalist People’s Republic will not be able to succeed the USA as a hegemonic power
How AI could upend the world even more than electricity or the internet ｜ AFP
So a few days ago, we narrowly missed all of our electronics being fried.
You can pull your weight or you can be dragged through the mud. Unfortunately those are your only options. Choose wisely.
Capitalism is about profits, and supporting the rich at the cost of human misery and planet degradation.
Yeah, we misread substantially.
*Absolutely*. The natural tendency of any organism to get more out of the system than they put back (necessary to increase their population) has been increased to ludicrous levels by our intelligence and tool use. And we're headed for the bust to end all busts of boom-bust cycles as a result.
My statement was *trying* to point out that "profit seeking" is not a characteristic *unique* to capitalism, and I am guessing a certain braindead ideologue minority assumed that meant I was defending if not outright supporting the excesses of capitalism.
Nonetheless, we didn’t understand what you meant. That _may_ mean that we all have the reading comprehension of a cracked-out bonobo, but it also might mean that you communicated unclearly—or anything in between. That’s ok though. We’ve cleared up the misunderstanding, so if you’d please stop insulting us, that would be lovely.
And by the way, I got 740 on the SAT reading comprehension section when I was 13. We may have a deficit, but it isn’t a deficit of _plain_ reading comprehension. Perhaps we are all too on-edge—that I would believe.
Until the internet, we never knew how many people were better at mind reading than actual reading.
Understood. Was not sure if your comment was sincere or sarcastic. Thanks for the clarification.
The problem is the sweeping generalization that the relation of energy profit is natural tendency in the same way capitalism is to profit seeking doesn't align. It would be hard to prove and there may be examples of it being true but at the same time the opposite exists for a different ecological system as proven by the replies you've received.
Even in Human historical course, we didn't have uncontrolled growth of population, and exploitation until the advent of agriculture which allowed for excess accumulation. Now I don't think primitivism is the path forward, because there will be a way to build a sustainable post-doom society, if we are open to it. Besides that, not all technology is exploitative, they are because of the grand systemic influences (primarily Capitalism).
No problem. Cheers 🍻
That’s not….untrue, but in either case - with biological systems or capitalism - unpriced externalities tend to become a problem sooner or later. In biological systems we see things like boom and bust cycles. Humans have been bending over backwards to ignore and buffer the impacts of externalities in the name of capitalism for a long time, and capitalism has not been able to provide any viable off-ramps from this path of increasing system stress.
That’s not….untrue, but in either case - with biological systems or capitalism - unpriced externalities tend to become a problem sooner or later. In biological systems we see things like boom and bust cycles. Humans have been bending over backwards to ignore and buffer the impacts of externalities in the name of capitalism for a long time, and capitalism has not been able to provide any viable off-ramps from this path of increasing system stress.
>And here I was thinking that the fucking massive amount of surplus energy provided by the sun is what made life as we know it possible.
I wasn't aware there was life on the moon. It receives a massive surplus of energy from the sun as well, right? Hell Mercury is probably teeming with life.
*Ah, my bad*. And here I was thinking that the fucking massive amount of surplus energy provided by the sun is what made life as we know it possible.
Now I see that we can do completely without it since *"In equals out. Not exceeds."*
Speaking of the dumbest thing I've read all month...
This is probably the dumbest thing I've read all month.
Life is predictated on *homeostasis*, not "profit." Sustainability. In **equals** out. Not exceeds.
Invasive species are largely the fault of people living unnaturally. Globalization is a cancer.
And just to answer your supercilious question:
Asian honeybees benefited from ‘murder hornets’ by cooperating amongst themselves and figuring out how to kill the scout Asian Giant Hornets by overheating them. Thus preventing a later attack by a swarm of hornets.
‘American’ honeybees haven’t either figured that out yet, or been told by other bees.
Oh look! [There’s a video!](https://youtu.be/UNroEwFxh6I)
I can give you an infinite amount of ‘hot takes’ on very selective & destructive ecological scenarios. How about army ant colonies and literally any other arthropod they come across? Or cowbird’s laying eggs in other birds’ nests? Or Orca/KillerWhales torturing seals by tossing them around before they are eaten? Or dragonflies (~90% kill rate) zeroing in on mosquitoes? Or pine borer beetles feasting upon great northwoods pine forests?
BUMMER, MAN!
Should I go on?
What’s your hot take on the economy-wide effects of private commercial banks creating [~97% of the circulating money supply](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057521914001434) via issuing loans & managing credit cards?
Got anything at all?
Everything that is *alive* is about 'profits'. Any organism that runs an energy deficit not only fails to reproduce, it fails to *survive*. So even if the profit is not currency, getting a favorable ratio of in-vs-out from the system is *necessary*.
Reducing the intricate interplay of biological interdependence to the simplistic concept of “profit” is doing such an incredible disservice to life on this planet that the mere idea is an enormous affront.
Have you not looked at, say, the complexities of mycorrhizal networks & forests?
[Start here](https://youtu.be/YCEaYInJbos)
Put simply: “profit” is explicitly about an artificial zero-sum game where one party exploits another party to the second’s detriment. There is no cooperation. Only dog-eat-dog.
Biological life appears to rely more on cooperation than competition.
>Put simply: “profit” is explicitly about an artificial zero-sum game where one party exploits another party to the second’s detriment.
I am eager to hear your hot take on the benefits that honeybees get from murder hornets. Cooperation rather than competition and all that, after all.
I learned everything I know from informative and educational comments like yours.
>Kinda like murder hornets get rekt in their actual environment.
Oh yeah, that would be *competition* rather than *cooperation*, wouldn't it? Which is the point *I* was making and which *you* just supported.
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Inspired by the crisis theory of value critique, the article argues that China will not be able to inherit the position of the hegemon of the capitalist World System from the US. Chinese State capitalism is part of the global capitalist system, it is not an alternative, and thus it faces the same systemic economic and ecologic crisis. And it is this deep structural crisis of capitalism, that pushes the main capitalist powers on the trajectory towards a great global war, that threatens the mere survival of civilization itself.
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Submission statement: prions continue spreading a while back it was shown that mice can pickup and transport prions now we have plants bioaccumulating prions from the soil at a certain point the spread will become exponential and humanity will still ignore it. https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cwd/index.html
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The fact emissions keep on rising suggests free markets continue to make the challenges we’re facing worse. A reason why is that companies are in fierce competition with each other to sell more stuff; the more they sell at a cheaper price, the higher their margins and, with it, their profits. None of the rules driving behaviour and decision-making involves consideration for the environment. And yet, all our hopes are being placed on this very same system to spontaneously transform society onto a sustainable path.
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SS: As the economic crisis currently hitting the market continues to accelerate, it'll start being felt by the poorest first. Subprime auto loan delinquencies [have hit levels above](https://www.axios.com/2023/03/01/low-income-households-are-falling-behind-on-car-bills) what was seen in the Great Financial Crisis without anywhere near the unemployment rate seen then. Auto companies have blamed supply chain issues for years now for inflated pricing, but now that inventory has returned prices still remain unaffordable, and it's causing sharp price decreases in many vehicles over time.
Some vehicles are holding values while others fall multiple percent per month while buyers' payments remain the same. That's left millions underwater in the vehicle, unable to trade it in without bringing thousands in cash to the dealership they don't have. America refuses to properly fund public transit, and it may leave millions without transportation in the near future.
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Submission statement: it was interesting to see the comments on this post. The permaculture community and gardening people in general are very supportive and helpful usually, and this is the first time I've seen the scope of the longer view challenge being brought to bear without much beating around the bush in the comments.
Some places will be underwater before the payoff from any long-term agricultural improvement can come to fruition, and people are starting to realize this.
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“Freddy has been one of the longest-lived storms ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere, if not the whole world.”
“What is interesting about Freddy is how far it has travelled. It began its journey off the coast of north-west Australia, crossing the Southern Indian Ocean from east to west, one of only four storms in history to do so.”
“It was also the first storm in the Southern Hemisphere to undergo four separate rounds of rapid intensification - this is an increase in the maximum sustained winds of a tropical cyclone of at least 30 knots in just 24 hours.”
Malawi and Mozambique have been devastated by this cyclone which hit the area twice. A year’s worth of rain in four weeks.
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Climate change related collapse. Weather events more frequent and devastating from year to year.
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US legal system and government: This looks more like system collapse than a lot of other things I’ve seen.
Midsize U.S. banks reportedly ask the FDIC to insure all deposits for two years
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SS: Just another massive fish die off. THe heat in austrailia put massive stress on the fish population and they just are croaking like, hey cant breath! Fish Taste good - but you cant eat this dead fish thats rotting. Good fertilizer though! Not gonna lie. im gonna miss salmon. So long, and thanks for no fish
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Published recently on PetaPixel, the following article covers new satellite data showing a marked increase in toxic algal blooms globally. Research found that nearly 10% of the world's oceans were covered in algal blooms in 2020, and the annual blooms are increasing.
Collapse related because this kills ocean life indiscriminately and is largely being driven by human activity.
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Published recently on ProPublica, the following article covers how deforestation increases "mixing zones", where humans and wildlife come into close contact, thus increasing the risk of a zoonotic disease jump (spillover).
Collapse related because deforestation will (not might) lead to a global pandemic. It seems the more beef we have, the more beef nature has with us. Shame.
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Is the US really this hamstrung by its own Supreme Court process? Is there any reason why the process should work this way? How long would it take to change? Ain’t nobody got time for that.
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SUBMISSION STATEMENT: Related to collapse because….
A large number of banks fear bank runs and aren’t in a position to cover all deposits in a scenario that mimics the 1929 crash and bank runs. (although FDIC covers deposits up to 250k) so will be a bank run by corporations to protect their assets and diversify their holdings across multiple entities to ensure the are insured vs small account holders.
Still the damage and destruction could easily wipe out people’s jobs en masse.
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SS : Article about a study titled : "The Global Biomass of Wild Mammals" .
so humans are out numbering other land animals by an alarming amount.
We are encroaching upon wilderness niches directly or via pollutants.
I'm wondering if there is an infographic about the speed of this transition over time ... the last two hundred years will have been an uptick I guess.
I almost didn't post this , but felt obligated ... even though 'collapse' is all about us . I'm so soaked in this data type that I find it difficult to write a 'submission statement'.
Are there folks that would say "so what ?" I think there are ... and it's mind blowing .
Have a great weekend.
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"Chile reports at least 532 sea lions are believed to have died of H5N1 bird flu, much higher than previously reported. 3,500 sea lions died in neighboring Peru."
Previously during the week, more than 300 dead sea lions were removed by the municipality of Arica, Chile. They were also thought to have contracted bird flu.
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During the last few months, H5N1 bird flu has wrecked havoc among sea mammals in South America, raising fears that the virus have adapted to transmit between mammals more easily, and therefore be a major threat to humans.
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As collapse continues to accelerate one can only imagine we can expect to bear witness to more gut wrenching fauna and flora die-offs.
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> As collapse continues to accelerate one can only imagine we can expect to bear witness to more gut wrenching fauna and flora die-offs.
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Bill Gates, the Global Depopulation Agenda, and What Is Actually Happening
The following submission statement was provided by /u/InternetPeon:
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SUBMISSION STATEMENT: Related to collapse because…
As the government continues to raise interest rates, lowering the worth of bonds, more and more of these are going to pop. We’re starting to get a sense of the width and depth of the issue In the US.
of course there are thousands more banks globally holding US bonds as well as foreign governments who are none too happy to see their debt holdings depreciated.
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SS: A group of psychologists, two from Northwestern University and the third from the University of Oregon, has found via online testing that IQ scores in the U.S. may be dropping for the first time in nearly a century. In their paper published in the journal Intelligence, Elizabeth Dworak, William Revelle and David Condon describe analyzing the results of online IQ tests taken by volunteers over the years 2006 to 2018.
This relates to collapse showing how epigenetics is causing young people to have lowered intelligence. This affects society because we will have fewer innovations. Could it be caused by toxins in our food/water, culture or lack of education?
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SS: The three months from November to end of January were the warmest period in Argentina since 1961. La Nina has led top exporter of soy oil and meal and the No. 3 for corn to make sharp cuts in harvest forecasts.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Toni253:
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Submission statement:
This article relates to collapse as it highlights how capitalism has corrupted the very notions of progress, technology, and development. Most people (but especially younger generations) are very pessimistic about the future. But this pessimism is not a judgement on progress itself, it's more a fear of how capitalists will utilize progress to further enrich themselves while making the rest of us suffer. The future has been corrupted, and we have allowed them to do so.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/dudeguy_79:
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"Worsening conditions will ultimately deprive these ideologies of their cultural appeal; how bad things have to get before this happens, is the terrifying question."
Exogenous Moral Orientation will hasten economic collapse.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/SettingGreen:
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Trump has gone on his website to claim that he has information leaked by the southern district of New York that he’s going to be arrested on Tuesday, and he’s calling for protests preemptively.
How is this collapse related? The former president of the United States is about to be arrested, and he’s calling for his base to protest. The same base responsible for the storming of the Capitol on January 6th. This could be a part/result of the slow collapse of the United States and potentially another nail in the coffin of its democracy
So, Monday, we have the potential collapse of the financial market at worst and collapse of a few smaller banks and a stock dive at best. Then on Tuesday, 45 is getting arrested.
It’s friggin collapse March Madness baby, get your Bingo cards out and let’s get the ball rollllllin
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How this is collapse-related:
Donald Trump has many supporters who may feel this is a way to keep him from running for office in 2024 and further inflame their passions for violence that were previously unleashed on January 6th, 2021. Even though he is currently out of office he continues holding political influence among Republicans especially in the lower house of US congress which could have consequences for government functioning over the next 2 years until we hold another election. As we've seen in previous weeks the US government has structural relationships with the world banking system, the war in Ukraine, etc. and a total US government failure would have ramifications globally.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/antihostile:
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SS: Bird Flu continues to spread. This is related to collapse because the possible spread of avian flu to humans would be devastating. Local news outlets are receiving tips from concerned citizens in southern Ontario who have spotted dead birds washed up along shorelines or near ponds in Toronto and Hamilton, two of the largest cities in southern Ontario, Canada.
• On Friday, officials in Brampton confirmed dead waterfowl were found in the areas of Professor’s Lake and Duncan Valley Foster South.
• The City of Vaughan later confirmed with CityNews that animal services responded to a distressed wildlife call at Toll Bar Park on Friday around 1 p.m. A spokesperson said eight geese were found dead, and one goose was severely ill and humanely euthanized. All the geese are presumed to have bird flu.
• One call was made by a Bolton resident, who claimed that several geese had been found dead. A social media post has circulated alleging over 100 geese have died in Bolton recently.
• On Friday, the Town of Caledon shared updates on social media, confirming its bylaw team was investigating potential avian flu in a stormwater pond in the Coleraine Drive and King Street area, noting the presence of dead and sick geese.
• Hamilton residents have also taken taken to social media contending dead birds have been spotted along local beaches.
• A recently confirmed case of bird flu at a chicken farm in the Niagara Region prompted the Toronto Zoo to take steps to protect its birds.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/nonrandomusername17:
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Submission statement:
Previously:
> [Nearly 3,500 sea lions in Peru have recently died of **H5N1 avian influenza**, five times as many as previously reported ... “The high mortality observed was worrisome" ... **researchers have not been able to rule out mammal-to-mammal transmission.** “This should be urgently investigated,” the authors of the study said. ... The global spread of H5N1 avian influenza ... and the recent spread to a growing number of mammals – has raised concern about the **possibility of a future variant which could lead to human-to-human transmission.**](https://bnonews.com/index.php/2023/03/nearly-3500-sea-lions-in-peru-die-of-h5n1-bird-flu/)
Why scientists are concerned about human to human transmission:
> [The 1918 flu pandemic ... was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the **H1N1 influenza A virus**. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in Kansas, United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in April. Two years later, **nearly a third of the global population, or an estimated 500 million people, had been infected** in four successive waves. Estimates of deaths range from **17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history.**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu)
TLDR: This is yet another worrying instance of mammals being infected with a deadly influenza virus. Until now it's not clear if mammal to mammal transmission has occured. If it does, it could be far far worse than covid19.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/spectacularlarlar:
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SS: I think this news speaks for itself. Plastic waste pollution has entered the geological formation cycle, such is its proliferation into our environment. Thousands of years from now this will be a plastic littered planet.
[Working link](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/15/americas/brazil-terrifying-plastic-rocks-intl-latam/index.html)
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/TheNerdyAnarchist:
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Just an article detailing more of the increasingly dire consequences from the EP train derailment that """for some reason""" were not originally tested for in the first place.
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**Edit:** If the above statement isn't an explanation of why this blatant disregard for the planet, ecology, and humanity in general is completely indicative of **why** collapse is on its way, I don't know what is.
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In a civilized society, we should be expecting more and continuing to learn in progress, but this is yet another indication that we may very well have plateaued and terms of the general public’s advancement in math and science. I can only see this leading to our demise. Perhaps you have to go backwards to go forward?
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/InternetPeon:
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SUBMISSION STATEMENT: Related to collapse because….
Well, well, well, these liabilities seem to keep stacking up rapidly don’t they. Anyone have a spare $39 Trillion lying around to bail this thing out? And of course this is just the issue at one bank.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Sumnerr:
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It's Friday and I wanted to share a podcast I found recently. I've never seen this posted here before, it shares common themes with the What is Politics YouTube channel (which I believe has been posted here at least once).
Interesting discussions on anthropology, evolutionary biology, behavior (human, chimp, bonobo, and many others), as well as some fiction predicting the next couple decades from a forty year old Earth Firster and lifelong activist. Lots of citations to research papers and books. I've listened to just about the whole thing from the start over the past couple weeks.
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SS: This relates to collapse in that the entire podcast is about the political stagnancy and apathy so many experience. It talks about climate catastrophe and the current predicament.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Kagedeah:
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Residents in a regional Australian town have woken to find millions of dead fish in their river.
The large-scale fish deaths were first reported on Friday morning in the New South Wales' (NSW) town of Menindee.
The state's river authority said it was a result of an ongoing heatwave affecting the Darling-Baaka river.
Locals say it is the largest fish death event to hit the town, that experienced another significant mass death of fish just three years ago.
In a Facebook post, the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) said the heatwave put "further stress on a system that has experienced extreme conditions from wide-scale flooding".
Heatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change. The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.
Speaking to the BBC, Menindee resident Graeme McCrabb described the deaths as "surreal".
"It'll probably be a bit more confronting today," he said, as he warned that locals were anticipating that even more fish would die as the already decomposing fish sucked more oxygen from the water.
Around 500 people live in the town in far-west New South Wales. The Darling-Baaka river is a part of the Murray Darling Basin, Australia's largest river system.
The NSW DPI also said that the fish deaths were "distressing to the local community", a sentiment echoed by Mr McCrabb.
"You can just imagine leaving a fish in your kitchen to rot with all the doors shut and no air conditioner, and we've got millions of them."
The temperature in Menindee was expected to reach 41C on Saturday.
He added that locals in the regional town rely on the Darling-Baaka for water supplies, "we use the river water for washing and showering in so people won't be able to use that water for those basic needs again," he said.
"Over time those people won't be able to access that water for domestic use which is just shameful".
This week's fish deaths throws a light on the troubles facing the Murray Darling Basin. Drought and increased human use has impacted the health of the Murray Darling ecosystem.
The Murray Darling Basin authority said agriculture, industries and communities have used water from the river system which has resulted in less water flowing through the river.
It also said the Basin is prone to extreme weather events and has a highly variable climate that makes it vulnerable to both fires and droughts.
In 2012, a plan worth A$13bn (£8.45bn at the time) was implemented to try and stop the river from drying up and returning it to a healthier level.
The NSW DPI said it will work with federal agencies to respond to the latest incident, and to find the underlying causes of the deaths.
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This is collapse related because our complex society is predicated on an array of technology that would likely be wiped out if the event that happened recently was a direct hit. And this solar cycle is just getting started — I don’t even want to know what a Miyake event would be like.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/thenicewizardd:
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SS: After the 70s, oil production in the United States began to decline. In the 2000s, the Shale Boom came to the rescue, allowing the United States to remain as a major player in oil production. However, recently, shale production has showed signs that it is peaking and slowing down. Some of this is driven by investors, who want to focus more on getting returns on their investments rather than growth. Some of this is driven by hard geological realities. Will this be the end of the shale boom? We'll see, folks!
This is collapse related because our global industrial society needs cheap oil the same way that a junkie needs heroin. If oil production begins to decline, economic growth will stall and society will eventually begin to decomplexify, unless some miracle energy source magically stops being 20 years away and actually comes online.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/pontiac_sunfire73:
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Submission statement: Do I still gotta do these for casual friday? Just in case: This is related to collapse because it is a meme about this sub on which we are posting. The sub is named after the concept of collapse. I feel that is what makes it relevant. That's probably 150 characters by now. Happy shitpost Friday.
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Interesting film. It’s something I think about, what would I do if I thought the “end is nye”. All I can say is must watch carefully till the end.
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Hey there, do you have what it takes to survive the apocalypse as a software engineer?
This video analyzes the pros and cons of using your software engineering skills to navigate a post-apocalyptic world. We'll explore how software engineering can help you overcome these challenges and emerge as a leader in any post-apocalyptic community.
TL; DR -> Building muscle is essential. Being intelligent alone won't suffice.
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> Interesting film. It’s something I think about, what would I do if I thought the “end is nye”. All I can say is must watch carefully till the end.
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SS: A really interesting deep dive by Dr Simon Clark into the events of the years 1979-1989 relating to Climate Change, and who to blame.
We could have had a 40 year head start on this, we may have even solved it by now if handled properly. Now I don't really fancy our chances. We had a pretty decent chance at avoiding collapse until the economists got involved.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/BabyLlama-Drama:
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SS: As Silicon Valley Bank collapsed so did the largest pledges for climate change solutions that existed in the world, SVB had allocated over $5 billion dollars to the young industry as it tries to come up with solutions for our broken climate. As interest rates rise and more banks tighten lending, the industry may be set back years.
It also highlights how weak our real societal impetus to fight climate change is, a single bank can nearly cripple an industry that so much of the future depends on. It shows the lack of real ability for this economic system to fight climate change, and its perpetual crisis makes solutions to the problem always just out of reach.
Recessions seem like huge set backs for the climate, after 2008 there was a mad rush for new energy to pull us out of the crisis and so strip mining for coal, shale oil and tar sands began to be exploited. It will be scary to see what comes next as even those resources are dwindling, the environment goes by the wayside to 'save the system'.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Novalid:
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Casual Friday bb.
Related to collapse because within the game of Minecraft, there's a pickax, made of pixels, which were created via some energy in your computer, energy that will run out and whose burning and extraction costs us a livable planet and Minecraft players and their shiny little pickaxes have destroyed us all.
Carry on.
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Submission Statement: this story is about a community in one of California's poorest rural counties, Tehama. The county is not able to compete with surrounding areas for police budgets, so -- due to lack of personnel -- the county sheriff has suspended day patrols for much of its territory, almost 3,000 square miles. The citizens in outlying areas of the county interviewed for the story mention having to arm themselves, and to contend with the reality that even if they call 911, police are likely not coming. This is relevant to this subreddit because loss of police services is one manifestation of a growing problem in the U.S., rural poverty: even in affluent polities like the U.S. state of California, rural areas are suffering a measurable loss of quality of life (loss of hospital services, supply chain shortages, or the problem featured in this story, loss of police security).
Many collapseniks and preppers think rural communities are the place to be as things implode, but increasingly it's evident that outlying areas are experiencing a loss of social services across the board, and as the polycrisis advances, the general erosion of social infrastructure will likely accelerate.
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Source: https://clowncrack.com/2023/02/28/in-the-red-2/
SS: the cartoon is a reinterpretation of the famous [Saturn devouring his son](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son) by Goya.
> It is traditionally interpreted as a depiction of the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus (known as Saturn in Roman mythology) eating one of his offspring. Fearing a prophecy foretold by Gaea that predicted he would be overthrown by one of his children, Saturn ate each one upon their birth.
This relates to collapse as it represents the struggling transition to [catabolic collapse](https://www.resilience.org/stories/2011-01-20/onset-catabolic-collapse/) at the political leadership level. Another [fun article that's more recent](https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-12-03/catabolism-capitalisms-frightening-future/). ...Because the question of "*will the liberal elites give into the fascists in an attempt to control the crisis of capitalism?*" has the probable answer of **yes**, per the precedents.
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>"So now that our strategy of relying on race-baiting and xenophobic misogyny that's supercharged by white nationalism and theocratic fascism has lost its mascot, we have to come up with another way to make the most gullible nitwits and the most predatory asshole power brokers who capitalize on the ass-licking sycophancy of gullible nitwits trust that the GOP is still here to make gullible nitwitery and predatory assholiness the only virtue worth embracing."
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Submission Statement,
Pertains to collapse because it happens to show the continuing escalation that is occurring in France. This photo was supposedly taken last week during protests and Macron continues to make out of touch with reality decisions. Where it gets more interesting is the parental advisory label that someone put on the picture. Now the question becomes what type of musical genre here.
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In light of the recent [threats of water supply report](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11tqqhs/global_fresh_water_demand_will_outstrip_supply_by/), here's a comic cyberdystopia where the water is rationed by free market mechanisms in the future. Note: the mega-corp doesn't have to be named Nestle. This post is related to collapse in that it's a type of high-tech dystopian world that's partially collapsed and civilization is more brutal in the remaining capitalist colorful hellscape.
Experienced readers should already know that this is optimistic: the high-tech aspects are unlikely. And the *character* there isn't even wearing a respirator.
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Submission Statement:
Happy Friday, everyone. I'd like to share this song by MC Lars with you. This song relates to collapse because it's about the ponzi scheme that is both our economy and market being the force behind climate change - literally Mendocino is burning. I hope y'all enjoy it.
Here's a few lyrics for ya:
*You know our math is brilliant, 'cause you can't understand it*
*Got you thinking that our ponzi schemes will benefit the planet*
*As our value gets remanded to the custody of orbit*
*Every speculator took a look and they adored it*
*You can floor it. What's one person's gas burning, anyway?*
*Drop inside a bucket. Soar before we plummet*
*The landing? See, we stuck it. Bounce like a springboard*
*Up could go forever, don't you think? And you could bring more*
*Friends with you next time, or if you run out
Try some internet strangers, fill them with doubt*
*How all the criticisms they've been hearing are the first clue*
*That someone's keeping secret how all that stuff is reverse-true!*
*In fact, we're good for the climate, we're just helping*
*We'll probably cure poverty on accident or something*
*And it doesn't matter if our interests seem opaque*
*Set it all on fire, anything less is a mistake*
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This video is a deep dive on the history of climate change by the climate scientist and youtuber Simon Clarck, following his fist video on the subject? Here he talks about the events of 1989 which failed to prevent great damages now affecting our modern world, when scientists, economists and policians failed (again and again) to work together
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submission statement to understand the big picture why there were three bank failures (so far in 2023) where failing banks eventually leads to collapse because of the falling domino effect, one needs to gather all the facts, then connect the dots
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first fact is when the fed increased interest rates, it decreased the value of bonds
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[https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/why-interest-rates-have-inverse-relationship-bond-prices/](https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/why-interest-rates-have-inverse-relationship-bond-prices/)
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the knock on effect of the fed (i.e. central bank) increasing interest rates is this creates a "yuge" liability problem of a potential debt bomb for banks nationwide in the hundreds of billions of dollars
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see chart 7 ***"Unrealized losses on available–for–sale and held–to–maturity securities"***
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[https://www.fdic.gov/news/speeches/2023/spfeb2823.html](https://www.fdic.gov/news/speeches/2023/spfeb2823.html)
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using the OODA loop and error chain analysis (like in aircraft crash investigations) the market cap of crypto which needs to be somehow factored in because people who own those assets will want their "money" pulled out of the shadows (FYI the total dollar value of crypto is just over a trillion US dollars)
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[https://coinmarketcap.com](https://coinmarketcap.com)
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personally I've been a fan of Zaihan and his geo-political analysis for a while and he lays out basic reasons why crypto is a dumpster fire
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeM1VK7yyCI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeM1VK7yyCI)
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJeEFrRm01s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJeEFrRm01s)
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now consider the facts,...
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*The Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) balance was $128.2 billion on December 31, up $2.8 billion from the end of the third quarter.*
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*Unrealized losses on available–for–sale and held–to–maturity securities totaled $620 billion in the fourth quarter, down $69.5 billion from the prior quarter, due in part to lower mortgage rates.*
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[https://www.fdic.gov/news/speeches/2023/spfeb2823.html](https://www.fdic.gov/news/speeches/2023/spfeb2823.html)
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basically these were the ingredients in place that caused the first bank panic/failure
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...ground zero for the crypto debt bomb was silvergate in la jolla (which specifically catered to crypto currency speculators)
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[https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/08/silvergate-shutting-down-operations-and-liquidating-bank.html](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/08/silvergate-shutting-down-operations-and-liquidating-bank.html)
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long story short, when crypto speculators w/ money in an account at silvergate closed their account,... silvergate in turn then basically had to sell off one of their securities to pay off a crypto speculators (so this in turn made the debt real AND decreased the banks reserves which were held to pay off a customer)
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[https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fractionalreservebanking.asp](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fractionalreservebanking.asp)
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FYI signature bank which also went belly up specifically catered to crypto currency speculators (the cnbc news link states this fact)
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as for the bank run on SVB which caused that institution to go belly up, I'm guessing the root cause is a panic due to funds not being FDIC insured AND crypto being used as collateral to get a bank loan
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lastly there is FIRST REPUBLIC BANK which as I see things is collateral damage caused by crypto speculators,... like SILICON VALLEY BANK there were bank accounts that were not insured by FDIC insurance (since bank account balances were over 250k),... the big difference is FIRST REPUBLIC BANK specifically targets customers who run their own small businesses and professionals such as medical doctors who earn high wages,...
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on the other hand SILICON VALLEY BANK had a great majority of there bank deposits not FDIC insured because accounts in this failed bank were made up of giant pools of money accumulated from many, many, many people who were betting on the next greatest silicon valley product or service
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NOTE one last big difference is FIRST REPUBLIC BANK did not have specific direct ties in place to crypto (unlike silvergate, silicon valley bank AND signature),... basically FIRST REPUBLIC BANK customers had to actually really go out of their way and use a third party platform to use money in a bank account to buy crypto
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***Summary:*** *First Republic Bank doesn’t offer customers the chance to buy cryptocurrencies on its own platform. Instead, its customers can connect their personal bank accounts or debit cards to a Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) licensed broker to buy digital assets like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).*
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*Therefore, to buy crypto with the First Republic Bank in the United States, investors will need to create an account with a FinCEN-regulated platform such as eToro and then transfer funds from the First Republic to the exchange.*
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[https://finbold.com/guide/buy-bitcoin-with-first-republic-bank/](https://finbold.com/guide/buy-bitcoin-with-first-republic-bank/)
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bottom line,... because of speculation, greed AND financial mismanagement, sad fact is this will ruin the economy and lead to a collapse of organized society
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Nandita Bajaj is the Executive Director of Population Balance, an organisation offering education and solutions to address the intersectional impacts of human overpopulation and over consumption on the planet, people and animals. Nandita also co-hosts The Overpopulation Podcast, and teaches at the Institute for Humane Education at Antioch University, where she researches prenatal ism and human supremacy and their impacts on reproductive ecological and intergenerational justice.
Nandita reveals how the coercive pronatalist policies around the world coupled with cultural mechanisms are causing a devastating impact on the planet. She also explains how existing power structures benefit from a growing population, illustrating how our economic obsession with growth demands exponential population growth. Nandita also explores the elevation of rights—human, species and natural—as a cornerstone climate policy to tackle population and create a sustainable world for everyone, and everything.
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This is related to collapse because a new viral spread, H9N2, instead of H9N1, could be a new vector that leads to spread between animals and humans or lead to a greater culling of chicken stocks, which would further reduce available food stuffs, placing more pressure on people when food prices are already rising due to inflation and accelerate collapse of communities, especially poorer communities.
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SS: The Dreaded 2030 making an appearance! Faster than expected, and all that
We need to radically change the way we are living in order to keep actually living, but no person in a position of authority seems willing to be able to make that happen. It seems as though this 40% would make people's heads explode and try their best, so we shall see what progress will be made
I keep telling people 2030 is the actual shit hits the fan time because by 2050 came all the way down from by 2100
this bot drives me insane
without water society will collapse
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SS: Banks are allowed to lend out money they don't have, and then get bailed out by taxpayers when they fail due to their own greed and mismanagement. No bank executives ever go to prison for this. Meanwhile, they hit consumers with countless fees and penalties for every little thing and will take your property if you can't pay back your loans. The whole thing is a scam. The public doesn't seem to care enough to demand change and politicians are owned by banks, so this will continue.
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Despite the bailout on Wednesday, credit suisse shares have crashed again, going as far down as (according to the charts as of writing this statement) 9%, raising the default risk again.
This is relevant to collapse because it shows that the downward spiral isn't over and that bailouts may not actually help the crisis hit bank at all which is a problem because it is too big to fail so once it goes so does society itself.
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>Why would anyone want to live miserably just so some people who don't exist yet can possibly live well?
Why would anyone be a good ancestor? Well, because they're not pieces of shit.
Yeah I'm missing something alright I have no idea what you mean by this.
Well okay but what point are you making now? I'm just trying to illustrate that the idea of a generation purposefully sacrificing itself for the next one is absolutely fucking stupid and unworkable, based on how people work.
Once you start actually self sacrificing as opposed to acting altruistically in a way that you can sustain, and which benefits you due to the satisfaction of seeing it come good, I'm talking once you actually start putting blood and muscle into someone else's problems and neglecting/destroying your own life, you cease to function properly and become more of a liability than a help. So it really can't happen.
You can use the pretext of "looking out for number one" for anything. Your brain will always find a reason to treat some wants, some desires, some fantasies, as actual needs.
You're missing the nuance here.
There's a great distance between NEED and WANT.
>Well okay but what point are you making now? I'm just trying to illustrate that the idea of a generation purposefully sacrificing itself for the next one is absolutely fucking stupid and unworkable, based on how people work.
Your illustration is wrong. You're using the case of an acute emergency to distort the situation of long-term emergency that's specifically not about the short-term.
It's not a healthy minded attitude, sorry. You're just treating everything as a crash-risk emergency and using that to justify selfish bastardness.
It's the same logic used after a remote crash for cannibalism (which I also disagree with).
I'm using that as a metaphor for how a healthy minded human should operate, I'm not literally talking about a plane crash. A person has to be okay in theirself before they can be a bit of use to anyone. So the idea of people living utterly miserable lives while paving the way for a glorious future for ungrateful bastards that haven't been born yet is rollocks.
People having an interesting time looking at ways of improving things which will in turn benefit future gens is fine, but that should not be labelled sacrifice.
No. Trust me. I've practiced self sacrifice for others and trust me IT DOES NOT WORK. but we'll leave it there if you want.
You want to give everything up and play the matyr? You'll wish you hadn't.
It doesn't work unless when it does. Crashing airplanes aren't exactly a normal situation.
Yeah but if you look closely at any good ancestor I'm sure they put their own oxygen mask on first before helping anyone else. Self sacrifice does not work.
The following submission statement was provided by /u/darrenjyc:
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World is a bestselling book by Mike Davis about the connection between political economy and global climate patterns, particularly the impact of colonialism and the introduction of capitalism during the El Niño–Southern Oscillation related famines of 1876–1878, 1896–1897, and 1899–1902 across multiple continents. The book's main conclusion is that the deaths of 30–60 million people killed in famines all over the world during the later part of the 19th century were caused by the laissez-faire and Malthusian economic ideology of the colonial governments.
A controversial book, it has received both praise and criticism. Praise generally focused on Davis' analysis of the Third World and its origins, while, conversely, his assertion the Indian famines which took place under colonial rule were intentionally engineered by the British has been criticized as extreme and conspiracist.
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SS: It only makes sense in the times we live...
*Excerpt :*
Oh yes, so grand the illusion of freedom will be, that they will never know they are our slaves.
When all is in place, the reality we will have created for them will own them. This reality will be their prison. They will live in self-delusion. When our goal is accomplished a new era of domination will begin.
Their minds will be bound by their beliefs, the beliefs we have established from time immemorial.
But if they ever find out they are our equal, we shall perish then. THIS THEY MUST NEVER KNOW.
If they ever find out that together they can vanquish us, they will take action. (WE KNOW)
They must never, ever find out what we have done, for if they do, we shall have no place to run, for it will be easy to see who we are once the veil has fallen. Our actions will have revealed who we are and they will hunt us down and no person shall give us shelter.
This is "The Secret Covenant" by which we shall live the rest of our present and future lives, for this reality will transcend many generations and life spans.
This covenant is sealed by blood, our blood. We, the ones who from heaven to earth came.
This covenant must NEVER, EVER be known to exist. It must NEVER, EVER be written or spoken of, for if it is, the consciousness it will spawn will release the fury of the PRIME CREATOR upon us and we shall be cast to the depths from whence we came and remain there until the end time of infinity itself.
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Update: High Probability Recession Hits U.S. in Late 2023
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Top Chart: Over the past +50 years, the inversions of the 50 day SMA of the 10 year treasury rates minus the 50 day SMA of the 3 month treasury rates have all preceded the start of a U.S. recession (there have been no false indicators or exceptions to this rule). The 8 recessions that occurred over the last half a century have started within an average of 12.18 months from the first day that their 50 day SMA inversions began).
Bottom Chart: Probability distribution showing the positions of the last 8 recessions (over a +50 yr. period) superimposed on the curve with each recession's position based on the time from the first day of their respective (10 Yr. minus 3 Mo.) 50 day SMA inversions to the first day of the start of their corresponding recessions. Normal distibution used as best fit with a mean of 12.18 months and a standard deviation of 4.61 months. The current position on the probability curve is denoted by the sliding red vertical arrow starting from time zero (1st day of the latest 50 day SMA inversion) and moving rightwards as time proceeds. Prediction of a 57% probability that a recession will have started on or before late December 2023 and a greater than 95% probability that a recession will have started on or before late July 2024.
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World Alarm: UN nuclear watchdog: 2.5 tons of uranium missing in Libya
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Brazilian researchers find "terrifying" plastic rocks on remote island
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This article describes how plastics are mixing with sediment and fishing nets to form these “plastic rocks.” From the article-
“TRINDADE ISLAND, Brazil, March 15 (Reuters) - The geology of Brazil's volcanic Trindade Island has fascinated scientists for years, but the discovery of rocks made from plastic debris in this remote turtle refuge is sparking alarm.
Melted plastic has become intertwined with rocks on the island, located 1,140 km (708 miles) from the southeastern state of Espirito Santo, which researchers say is evidence of humans' growing influence over the earth's geological cycles.”
I feel ignorant but I didn’t really know the extent to which the fishing industry is harmful to the earth. I am aware of overfishing but did not realize how bad it has gotten. The fact that there are new rocks combined of random plastics on remote islands is a very worrying sign. I wonder how many geologic and environmental impacts there are related to this that we do not know about yet.
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This is releated to colapse becouse shows how the spiral of violence in the Middle East is winding up. The Israeli military conducts almost weekly raids on Palestinian settlements, killing civilians to intimidate both civilian and armed libertarian organizations. Quasi-Fascist Israel, run by a handful of generals, is responsible for the killing of 14 Palestinian children and nearly 100 civilians in total in the three months of this year, in the same year, Joe Biden supports them in displacement and genocide. AMERICAN POLITICIANS ARE FIGHTING FOR SUCH FREEDOM.
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Im sick of these people and their foundation less techno optimism
AI art tells are lessening extremely quickly
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Literally i see these idiots cheering the end of jobs . Job loss has never been good for us workers. Currently the usa can feed house and take care of everyone medically but choses not to . These are not technological issues but cultural. Those in power wont magically become good nice people just because they automated your job away. If they were we would actually have actual social safety nets. Instead the unemployed will be told to eat shit and fucking die . No one will help us . And fuck any techno optimist we do not need to hear your false sophomoric idiocy that ignores reality. Must be nice to live a sheltered life.
Ignoring the systemic collapse with false hope is dangerous . Living in a delusion hurts not only themselves but others around them
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Submission statement: the current onslaught of false information is liable to worsen beyond repair as AI models improve. Unless effective, reliable detection systems for this can be created and implemented and curbs on AI performance deployed and quickly, this will rapidly become an existential threat to world society, as sophisticated disinfo operations become within the reach of anyone who can afford previous gen flagship GPUs. This becomes especially pertinent as we approach the 2024 election and improvement shows no sign of slowing down, and may well bring this technology to very dangerous maturity at critical points in that contest, to fairly obvious risks.
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Poland breaks with NATO allies by pledging to send fighter jets to Ukraine | CNN
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Poland on Thursday pledged it would send four MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, the first NATO member to do so, in a significant move in Kyiv’s battle to resist Russia’s onslaught.
President Andrzej Duda said the planes – from about a dozen that it had inherited from the former German Democratic Republic – would be handed over in the coming days after being serviced.
“When it comes to the MiG-29 aircraft, which are still operating in the defense of Polish airspace, a decision has been taken at the highest levels, we can say confidently that we are sending MiGs to Ukraine,” Duda said.
Warsaw has taken a lead among NATO allies in supplying Kyiv with heavy weapons. The announcement that Poland will send the Soviet-designed planes marks a break from the alliance, and could put pressure on other member states to do the same. Other NATO nations have been reluctant to move far beyond a decision earlier this year to send tanks to Kyiv, and the US insisted Thursday that Poland’s move would not force Washington’s hand.
Speaking at a news conference in Warsaw with his new Czech counterpart Petr Pavel, the Polish president expressed the two countries’ joint backing for Kyiv.
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**...The biggest question will be if it puts pressure on the United Kingdom and the United States, which will then do the same for Germany. Ultimately, creating this pressure on other allies was probably Poland’s intention.**
While this is happening - China is shipping body armor and rifles to Russia:
[https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/16/chinese-rifles-body-armor-russia-ukraine-00087398](https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/16/chinese-rifles-body-armor-russia-ukraine-00087398)
This is collapse related because the war is escalating and drawing more parties on both sides into it.
It's almost like history is repeating itself right now. Banks are collapsing and being bailed out, inflation is getting out of control (globally) and we are heading towards hyper inflation or letting the banks fail. Could we be walking into another great recession / depression followed by world war?
Compounding to these problems is climate change which we did not have to deal with in prior crisis times. I fear WW3 is coming and faster than expected.
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Submission Statement: per her reporting in the *Washington Post*, climate journalist Brianna Sacks relays that payouts from insurance carriers to victims of Florida's September 2022 Hurricane Ian have been radically reduced without knowledge or consent of insurance adjusters, sometimes leaving people with an order of magnitude less compensation (example: $200,000 assessment reduced to $27,000) or even zero compensation for rebuilding. (This applies to those who actually *had* insurance coverage, not including the many who entirely lacked coverage and cannot rebuild.) This is yet another example of how our current climate change -driven realities cannot be met by our financial system and institutions. Arguably this is the very definition of financial/economic collapse, driven by climate change: we suffer damage and literally cannot rebuild in response. (Presumably this will lead to damaged, abandoned properties -- without compensation to the owners, how will they be able to clean up? What wealth they have will be spent helping them move on, possibly re-locate... if they bear responsibility for a property that cannot be rebuilt, it will be a financial millstone around their collective neck... This has disturbing implications for Florida's immediate future.)
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Big Oil will stop at nothing to siphon as much oil from the ground as they possibly can. Their efforts to destroy everything include the madness that is installing artificial chillers into the ground to keep permafrost solid, all so they can suck more oil out and avoid sinking into a collapsing landscape of thawing permafrost and methane belching lakes. These efforts will be in vain. I predict the attempts at oil extraction in the Arctic will be a catastrophic failure due to the increased and rapid warming of the Arctic region. This is collapse because it demonstrates that humanity will pursue this folly to the very end of the road, even in the face of glaring facts and evidence that such a road only leads to catastrophic warming of the planet.
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> ’’’We talk so much about the Anthropocene, and this is it," Santos said, referring to a proposed geological epoch defined by humans' impact on the planet's geology and ecosystems.
"The pollution, the garbage in the sea and the plastic dumped incorrectly in the oceans is becoming geological material ... preserved in the earth's geological records."’’’
Fishing nets are melting and fusing to rocks and sand at a remote tortoise sanctuary island.
Thousands of years from now, scientists will be able to date our current timeline by the layers of plastics and micro plastics—I think of this often while I’m out metal detecting.
This is why I call our era the “Plasticene”.
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We have completely accepted that this and all generations after will never be able to own property, exposing them to ongoing uncertainty of living costs, especially in countries with little renters protection like the UK (picture from London).
The intergenerational wealth gap is insane. A system was put in place allowing people/voters at that point in time to concentrate resources completely unsustainably at the expense of the next generations.
Now, politicians can barely change it as the older generations rely on that wealth to find their life style and protect it by voting accordingly.
Very few are able to accumulate wealth themselves now unless they inherit it or throw their life away in investment banking.
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This YouTube video, which is reasonably concise, introduced me to the concept of he Strauss–Howe generational theory, devised by William Strauss and Neil Howe, describes a theorized recurring generation cycle in American history and Western history. According to the theory, historical events are associated with recurring generational personas (archetypes). Each generational persona unleashes a new era (called a turning) lasting around 20–25 years, in which a new social, political, and economic climate (mood) exists.
It reinforces the idea and states therefore that according to historical observation, collapse is imminent and occurring as we speak. The video gives context to that collapse.
I've personally thought that the best thing to come out of world war 2 was the rise of progressive politics and rejection of conservatism, at least at the surface, anything resembling Nazism gets immediately silenced. Now, as we "forget" as an organism, we're right back to the rise and defense of fascism.
This video takes that thought and gives some valid reasons and historical examples of that happening
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SS: this Seaweed bloom relates to collapse because this is such a large seaweed bloom that it will suck the oxygen out of the water and create dead zones. it also will also harmful to sealife as well as humans. when they rot they release toxic gas and there is a large concentration of arsenic in the material that makes disposal and reuse of waste from this that washes up on beaches very difficult to deal with.
Edit to add words for bot. This is a disaster for residents as well as tourists who will have a very poor beach experience with huge economic and environmental impacts to Florida as well as the Caribbean already needing hundreds of dump trucks a day to remove. besides the noxious gas the decaying seaweed gives off, the added CO2 from all the clean-up will just make it worse next time.
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What is it?
They're coming for us. They're about to succeed.
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“The Association of Health Service Doctors warns that the numbers of deaths and cases are likely to be much higher than official statistics. Local media reports put the death toll at more than 100 children. The state’s healthcare system is struggling to cope. Some hospitals have said their paediatric wards are full, and there are reports of children having to share hospital beds.”
I had not heard of this, so thank you for letting me know it is in the US and known.
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History.
There are historical events and studies that suggest that Judaism has quite few features which it borrowed from ancient Egyptians who practiced polytheism. The exile allows Hebrews to find their god through Moses and the 10 commandments.
I am not near my notes, otherwise I would cite sources; so take my world as a given or remain skeptical.
Jesus, who was born to a Jewish mother, was born into a social structure whose religion was already monotheistic,Judaism. The environment was predetermined or, dare I suggest, predisposed for Jesus. The ontological principles that also present in 10 commandments, are evident in other religious scriptures albeit in other form or under different terminology. Glancing on all religious practices, one will see an universal moral law. I am not Kantian however.
Another interesting claim is that Islam traces its spiritual lineage back to the prophet Abraham, who is considered to be the father of the Abrahamic faiths Judaism, Christianity and Islam. All three recognize the metaphysical existence of Abraham. As a symbol.
To me, and my understanding it means that when the Hebrew arrived to promised land, that they settled in—god directed to promised land—and the settlement grew in population and its complexity, new sages were waking to their realization. And given that Judaism was less strict, therefore having less constraint on potentiality of birthing another gods within monistic structure, Jesus and Mohammed collected followers by being themselves the symbol of salvation from struggle or anything that was divine to them.
Now, some religious scriptures do warn of fake prophets, I am not sure if all three do so…
I digressed.
To answer to the remark. Abraham, if taking religious scripture as archeological definitive, lived around 20 BCE or 18 BCE. That is 2023 years ago from today. That is after the exile of hebrews from ancient Egypt where they lived among polytheism. How did they get to monotheistic god… I will let you ruminate on that one.
Leave aside modern religious dogmas. Indigenous cultures as well as egalitarian societies, in general had a polytheistic approach to existence. Monotheism the way it practiced and followed today is a modern approach to metaphysics.
Emerged out of polytheism? Who claims that?
Curse of polytheism.
Islam, which is a monotheistic belief in divine power emerged out of polytheism.
Change source of knowledge.
Oh, I see what the problem is. You’re fallaciously thinking that “God” exists and has some idea for how people should live. It’s the old problem of not being able to reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into. I’m sorry, I can’t help you with any of the incorrect ideas that you have about how the world works.
Pleasure!
It's absolutely not the default, before the neolithic revolution most tribes were matriarchal since the lineage was traced through the mother's side. If we are talking natural state, perhaps the way tribes were organised for hundreds of thousands of years is more 'natural' than this patriarchal society that has only really been prevalent for a fraction of that time.
History.
There are historical events and studies that suggest that Judaism has quite few features which it borrowed from ancient Egyptians who practiced polytheism. The exile allows Hebrews to find their god through Moses and the 10 commandments.
I am not near my notes, otherwise I would cite sources; so take my world as a given or remain skeptical.
Jesus, who was born to a Jewish mother, was born into a social structure whose religion was already monotheistic,Judaism. The environment was predetermined or, dare I suggest, predisposed for Jesus. The ontological principles that also present in 10 commandments, are evident in other religious scriptures albeit in other form or under different terminology. Glancing on all religious practices, one will see an universal moral law. I am not Kantian however.
Another interesting claim is that Islam traces its spiritual lineage back to the prophet Abraham, who is considered to be the father of the Abrahamic faiths Judaism, Christianity and Islam. All three recognize the metaphysical existence of Abraham. As a symbol.
To me, and my understanding it means that when the Hebrew arrived to promised land, that they settled in—god directed to promised land—and the settlement grew in population and its complexity, new sages were waking to their realization. And given that Judaism was less strict, therefore having less constraint on potentiality of birthing another gods within monistic structure, Jesus and Mohammed collected followers by being themselves the symbol of salvation from struggle or anything that was divine to them.
Now, some religious scriptures do warn of fake prophets, I am not sure if all three do so…
I digressed.
To answer to the remark. Abraham, if taking religious scripture as archeological definitive, lived around 20 BCE or 18 BCE. That is 2023 years ago from today. That is after the exile of hebrews from ancient Egypt where they lived among polytheism. How did they get to monotheistic god… I will let you ruminate on that one.
Leave aside modern religious dogmas. Indigenous cultures as well as egalitarian societies, in general had a polytheistic approach to existence. Monotheism the way it practiced and followed today is a modern approach to metaphysics.
Anthropology may perhaps be affected by politics and ideology, the concern is indeed there; however, biases can be identified once you read ethnographic papers and findings.
Patriarchy is not a default dynamic or structure for human societies, and basing the claim on common sense is rather a fallacious tactic (representative heuristic).\
I must disagree wholeheartedly with such claim. Egalitarian societies and extreme egalitarian hunter-gatherers if had some form of patriarchy, it was either seasonal or for a specific task; such as game hunting or other social dynamic. If the method did not work, it was abolished!
On what the argument of yours is based?
Curse of polytheism.
Islam, which is a monotheistic belief in divine power emerged out of polytheism.
Change source of knowledge.
It's amazing how similar you sound to an American evangelical.
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Like y'all really just have different packaging of the same hateful bull.
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I've heard this shit all my life, just wrapped in a Bible. I've been taunted with the flames of hell and honestly if heaven is full of people like you and them I'd sooner be smelling sulfur and dancing with demons<3
Thanks
Emerged out of polytheism? Who claims that?
You're fallaciously thinking whatever people choose for themselves makes them happier or better. Restriction, in the way God orders it to be, makes people happier. In fact, I choose to waste my time on internet (reddit) right now while it makes me worse in every way, I'm sleep deprived right now. And lol, do you think you are less of a slave than a Muslim slave in middle ages? Read Technological Slavery by Dr. David Skrbina.
That's it, I will delete reddit and [timelock](https://github.com/aerbil313/timelock) my phone password to 1 week inshaAllah now. I'll drop one last [link](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcnL9bB-q3ymnRNcpZGcVVjiDOy-ocjp9) before going. And [the comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/CollapsePrep/comments/10v4ol2/anyone_in_turkey_lets_gather_to_survive_the/j7tqzrw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) I made which is also about reliance on objectivity as a source of truth. I know I first cited studies in parent comments, but it's because it usually works for many modern people for them to start doubting status quo of values.
I've heard enough of your salespitch tbh. Miss me with that shit <3
Yeah I don't see why giving me a homophobic link was going to convince me....
Again I prefer not being hated on for being gay.
"Patriarchy and hypergamy is natural," one of these articles assures us, apparently unaware of the many forms of human social organizations across tens of thousands of years of human history which are decisively non-patriarchal, from Çatalhöyük (read *The Chalice and the Blade* by Riane Eisler) to the EZLN in Chiapas, Mexico.
There is a way to critique First World capitalist modernity and all its alienation without arbitrarily conjuring boundaries of the natural/unnatural, a way that has generated an extraordinarily rich experience of Third World internationalist dialogue and action: historical materialism.
I couldn’t get access to the study for the first link in your comment because it’s behind a paywall but I find it suspicious that it refers to the happiness of “students”. Could be a case of sampling bias; the girls who were forced to drop out of school and marry some old guy at age 9 aren’t even being included in the sample because they aren’t students. Anyway I can’t say one way or the other about it because I’m not paying to read it.
I do wonder why any time women are given access to contraceptives and family planning they choose to have fewer children. You’d think if they liked being oppressed so much they’d love to have as many children as possible.
Personally if I had the choice to go live somewhere that I was treated as a slave and piece of property, or stay in the west where I have autonomy and am allowed to leave my house whenever I want, I choose to stay in the west. You’d think if women inherently wanted to be enslaved by men, we’d all be clamoring for it, but curiously I have no such preference.
>it’s proven women inherently prefer patriarchy.
That is bluntly wrong.
Read into egalitarian societies predating Islam, that is read into anthropology before 4,000 BCE or so.
Only if you were to know how much anthropology is affected by politics and ideology. See Chapter 3, 'The Truth About Primitive Life: A Critique of Anarcho-Primitivism' [here](https://ia800300.us.archive.org/21/items/tk-Technological-Slavery/tk-Technological-Slavery.pdf), starting at page 128.
Patriarchy is default for human societies since forever, do you really think anything in its natural state be bad? Just common sense.
Read into Axial revolution and Hellenistic era which gave rise to monotheistic interpretation of oneness.
[Not all religions are the same](https://youtu.be/9yARPq35lBw), in fact, this generalization of Christianity onto all religions is a modern phenomenon.
Edit: Lol I linked the video thinking it was related, I watched it long time ago, it turns out it literally starts with the sentence 'They say all religions are the same' and the video is all about it. I was so amazed at my subconcious memory that I watched the thing once again.
Which is what?
I don't think religion is going to be the solution.
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Maybe I am biased as a gay dude that prefers being able to live openly and have rights and all that, but I just think we should branch away from Abrahamic religion as a leading force in society. I haven't seen that work out for me or the people I love in modern or historical times.
Organized religion isn't good for anyone unless they are part of the power structure. Most Islamic men are at near the bottom of the totem pole. But not at the bottom like women, horses and cattle.
Islam is predicated on loopholes when reduced to logic. Nevertheless it does point to something beyond which all other religions do so as well; amazing of a fact is that indigenous epistemology and metaphysics do so also.
Additionally, could not resist to appeal to Aristotelian logic.
X is great; unless you are Y.\
You are Y.\
X is not great.
Pretty reductive and segregated reasoning, since it in principle cannot be great.
Islam is great especially if you are woman. [Did you know](https://muslimskeptic.com/2022/12/28/equality-paradox/) more gender equality results in a larger happiness gap between men and women, and not for the favor of women but men? Or that it's proven [women inherently prefer](https://muslimskeptic.com/2018/12/31/women-prefer-patriarchy/) patriarchy? Why do I bother with science, just read western travelers' books and diaries from 1x centuries, describing Muslim world. It was utopia. Go read them. It was the life to live. I envy them. We're living in the darkest, worst times yet somehow manage to convince ourselves we're better because we have the privilege to watch brain killing porn from handheld devices and eat poison food after wage slavery for 8 hours every day. If you want to see debates on serious topics, they're [pre-made](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcnL9bB-q3ylQ9CZdB8YfjoDvxam-RRfZ) for you! So are articles about the Muslim view on the world and critiques on modernity, [all categorized by topic.](https://muslimskeptic.com/)
Maybe first assess [The Modern Human Condition](https://youtu.be/Wp5AHzHq0IA) deeper before going out for a solution?