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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 7 months

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Homo Sapiens Are Working Overtime to Join 'The Great Silence'

And if it does affect the economy, we’ll find a way to extract a profit from it…. Driven mostly by rising global temperatures from the continued burning of fossil fuels, extreme weather events such as typhoons, hurricanes, floods, heatwaves and drought are becoming more frequent, increasing 83% worldwide in the past 20 years (as of 2020), and the costs have increased by 800%…

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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 2 years

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Ticking Off The Checklist For Mass Extinction

Nate Hagens’ recent interview of Professor Peter Ward, entitled “Oceans – What’s the Worst that Can Happen?”, serves as a good overview of mankind’s destruction of the marine biosphere and our road to extinction. The title is a rather rhetorical question because very bad things have happened, are already happening, and even worse things are unavoidable and on the horizon despite hopes that humans…

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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 2 years

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Heads-Up! Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction

“I’m telling you that we’re putting our kids onto a global school bus that will with 98% probability end in a deadly crash.” ~ Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director Emeritus of Potsdam Institute I recently saw the movie ‘Don’t Look Up’ after avoiding it since its release and I must say, that movie mirrors the tragic state of our society to a T. When you see Dr. Randall Mindy (DiCaprio) finally…

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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 3 years

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Man In The Box

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ~ Aldous Huxley The foundation beneath our house of cards is beginning to buckle and heave. For far too long, humans have poked the sleeping monster of abrupt climate change and it’s starting to awaken. Thus far, nearly a thousand deaths in British Columbia alone are likely attributable to hyperthermia caused by a persistent heat dome that…

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#Abrupt Climate Change #Aldous Huxley #Anthropocene Extinction #Atomization of Society #Chemical Pollution #Collapse of Industrial Civilization #Dr. Peter Ward #Dystopic Future #Ecocide #Global Warming #Heat Dome #Loss of Biodiversity #Micro-Plastic Pollution #Ocean Acidification #Ocean Dead Zones #Pacific NW Heatwaves #Techno-Fix #Widespread Deoxygenation of Temperate Lakes #Widespread Ocean Anoxia

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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 3 years

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We're All Just Temporary Passengers on Spaceship Earth.

We’re All Just Temporary Passengers on Spaceship Earth.

I recently asked a scientist on Facebook how he copes with the knowledge that we are destroying the planet within the geologic blink of an eye. Here is his answer: Pot helps! 🙂 But psychologically, I reread Catton’s Overshoot recently, where he talks about how once humans starting burning fossil fuels, we evolved (devolved?) into detritivores, species that depend on dead organic matter for our…

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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 3 years

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Tim Garrett, physicist/professor of atmospheric sciences who hypothesised that civilization is effectively a heat engine whose power is expressed in the form of economic growth, admits that we will never decarbonize.

It’s rather jarring to see an expert like Tim Garrett, whose work I have followed for many years, come out and say so bluntly that we will not do the steps needed to save ourselves. And the reason is very simple…

People will simply raise hell if their right to pollute and consume is severely curtailed. We see this today with people’s refusal to simply wear a damn mask and do what’s for the…

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#Abrupt Climate Change #David Spratt of Climate Code Red #Decarbonize #Dr. Kevin Anderson #Prof Tim Garrett #Techno-Utopians

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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 4 years

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A Second Trump Term Will Prove Even More Deadly For Americans

“It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle – it will disappear.” ~ Trump

Who would have guessed that a reality TV “star”, con-artist, and political hack would be the one person to shake America’s institutions of government to their core? Then again, Hitler was a down-and-out artist before he became a dictator. Lots of people warned that this time with D.J. Trump would come even before…

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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 4 years

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Age of Annihilation

“We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.” ~ Thomas Berry

As governments stared glass-eyed at what was unfolding in China earlier this year, the fragility of modern life’s interconnectedness was soon to be laid bare by a microscopic organism. Within a couple months of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic,…

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#Amazon Fires #Antarctic Ice Melt #Anthropocene Mass Extinction #Climate Change #Collapse of Industrial Civilization #Coronavirus Pandemic #COVID-19 #Greenland Ice Melt #Greenwashing #Heatwaves #Marine Heatwaves #MegaFires #Pyrocene #Stephen Hawking #Thomas Berry #Zoonotic Diseases

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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 4 years

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The Apocalypse Will Not Be Televised

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“3D visualization” of the Australian fires by Anthony Hearsey, compiled from NASA satellite data collected across the span of a month/an injured koala bear sits alone on the ‘apocalyptic’ Kangaroo Island

The year is 2020 and climate change-related disasters are in full swing while at the same time, the most influential country in the world is under the leadership of someone who calls…

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#Abrupt Climate Change #Anthropocene Extinction #Australian Bushfires #Collapse of Industrial Civilization #Ecological Overshoot #Fossil Fuel Industry #Omnicide #Overpopulation

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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 5 years

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Greta Thunberg Speaks the Horrific Truth of Humanity's Fate

Greta Thunberg Speaks the Horrific Truth of Humanity’s Fate

When a 16 year-old girl named Greta Thunberg spoke with trembling anger of the unspeakable crimes today’s adults are committing against her and future generations, a chill ran down my spine. She will be alive to see the pulses of rapid sea level rise, the unraveling of industrial agriculture, the mass migration of hundreds of…

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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 5 years

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Weekend Funnies for the Depressed Collapsitarian #11

It’s been a while since I’ve published one of these dark humor posts, but I think that as the catastrophic flooding events, heat waves, and other extreme weather events continue to multiply and intensify and as more and more people start losing their minds, all we can do is laugh at the absurdity of our self-inflicted predicament. As has been said many times before, the Anthropocene carbon spike…

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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 5 years

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Concerning Humanity's Future: Interview with Nick Humphrey, Climatologist and Geoscientist

Concerning Humanity’s Future: Interview with Nick Humphrey, Climatologist and Geoscientist

NOAA image of the “bomb cyclone” that struck the Midwest earlier this month, triggering flooding in three states and taking the lives of humans and livestock. The National Weather Service described it as “incredible” and a “Great Plains cyclone of historic proportions.”

I first discovered the writings of Meteorologist/geoscientist Nick Humphrey with his brutally honest essay The Conversation No…

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#6th Mass Extinction #Abrupt Climate Change #Antarctic Ice Melt #Desertification #Extreme Weather Events #Geoengineering #Monoculture Farming #Nick Humphrey #Nuclear Energy #Overpopulation

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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 5 years

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The Inconvenient Truth of Modern Civilization's Inevitable Collapse

The Inconvenient Truth of Modern Civilization’s Inevitable Collapse

“My early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves.” ~ David Buckel

Today’s global consumption of fossil fuels now stands at roughly five times what it was in the 1950s, and one-and-half times that of the 1980s when the science of global warming had already been confirmed and accepted by governments with the implication that there was an urgent need to act. Tomes of…

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#Antarctic Ice Melt #Climate Change Denial #Climate Tipping Points #David Buckel #Donald Trump #Douglas Theobald #Food Shocks #Fossil Fuel Industry #Greenland Ice Sheet Melt #Loss of Biodiversity #Micro-Plastic Pollution #Nate Hagens #Overpopulation

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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 6 years

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Have things improved since I wrote my last essay a year ago for this blog? Have we miraculously transformed our entire energy system into one that does not poison and degrade the natural world? Have we slowed the onslaught of plastic pollution choking the planet’s rivers, lakes, and oceans? Have we done anything meaningful to halt the deterioration of the planet’s biodiversity toward mass extinction? Has this global, hi-tech civilization done anything significant to avert its own demise?...

#6th mass extinction #capitalism #collapse of industrial civilization #donald trump #ecological overshoot #peak oil #micro-plastic pollution #blue ocean event #elizabeth kolbert #herman daly #william e. rees #svante arrhenius #stephen boyden

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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 6 years

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Evolutionary Dead-Ends

“It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.” ~ Elizabeth Kolbert Have things improved since I wrote my last essay a year ago for this blog? Have we miraculously transformed our entire energy system into one that does not poison and degrade the natural world? Have we…

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#6th Mass Extinction #Arctic Blue Ocean Event #Capitalism #Climate Change #Collapse of Industrial Civilization #Donald Trump #Dr Charlie Veron #Ecological Overshoot #Elizabeth Kolbert #Micro-Plastic Pollution #Peak Oil #Professor Stephen Boyden #Svante Arrhenius #Techno-Fix #U.S. National Climate Assessment #William E. Rees

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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 7 years

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The Trumpocene: Darkness Gathers

“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” – Gary Kasparov With each passing day, the mental stability of our narcissistic, megalomaniacal president is increasingly being called into question by those unnerved by his erratic behavior. The unhinged press conferences, comically embarrassing meetings with…

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collapseofindustrialcivilization · 7 years

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Extinction is the End Game

Civilizations are living organisms striving to survive and develop through predictable stages of birth, growth, maturation, decline and death. An often overlooked factor in the success or failure of civilizations are cultural memes—the knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors passed down from generation to generation. Cultural memes are a much more significant driver of human evolution than genetic…

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