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1. EUROPE HIT BY WORST DROUGHT IN 500 YEARS

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The landscape around Italy's river Po dried out during the summer of 2022.  The summer of 2022 was like no other across swaths of western and central Europe. The proverbially rainy England didn't see a drop of rain in weeks.

2. PAKISTAN SEES WORST FLOODS IN HISTORY

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While water levels in European rivers were hitting record lows, the mountainous Pakistan in southwestern Asia struggled with the exact opposite problem. From June to October 2022, vast areas of the country were submerged in flood waters.

3. HURRICANE IAN BATTERS FLORIDA AND FIONA MAKES LANDFALL IN CANADA

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Hurricane Ian seen from the International Space Station.  The Atlantic hurricane season of 2022 started late. For the first time in 25 years, not a single named tropical storm emerged above the Atlantic Ocean in the month of August.

4. FREDDY, THE LONGEST-LIVED TROPICAL STORM EVER, PUMMELS WEST AFRICA TWICE

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Cyclone Freddy above Madagascar.  Tropical storm Freddy(opens in new tab) received much less media attention than Ian and Fiona when it rampaged western Africa in February and March 2023. From a weather disaster perspective, however, Freddy was a storm of a kind never seen before.

5. ANTARCTIC SEA ICE HITS RECORD LOW

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Seasonal variations in the extent of Antarctic sea ice. Bad news arrived in February from scientists monitoring the Antarctic ice cap. The extent of floating sea ice surrounding the frosty continent shrank to a record low as the southern summer peaked, to only 66% of the levels usually present at this time of the year.

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The story of how one man cost us a world with less than 2°C of warming in 1989.

This is a follow-up video to Global Warming: An Inconvenient History, going into much more detail of events from 1979 to 1989. In particular this is the story of the "villain" of climate change, a man you've likely never heard of before. But is that a fair description? You be the judge.

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One understands why that was not quite as easy to put into headlines as Trump's arrest. But translated from the scientific, it's the rough equivalent of "South Pole to Planet Earth: Drop Dead." As the Guardian explained, in the best summary of the research I've seen, the study shows that "melting ice around Antarctica will cause a rapid slowdown of a major global deep ocean current by 2050 that could alter the world's climate for centuries and accelerate sea level rise."


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Yes.

Ah, another Johnny-come-lately academic has concluded that we are in danger of collapse and we need radical social and technological change, including a lower standard of living in order to avoid it.  Don't we have enough research already on this topic?  We need an MBA from Sweden to rehash Joe Tainter and Jared Diamond?

I suppose it's good to have somebody new to do the talk show and podcast circuit, since even if Joe and Jared are still alive they're also having their asses wiped by a CNA in a Gulag for Gomers. lol.  It's good to pass the Collapse Torch to a new generation of kollapsniks.

Will people pay any more attention to the Swede than people did to any of the pundits from the last go-round?  Nope.  Academics aren't Billionaires, so nobody pays attention to them.  Billionaires aren't kollapsniks, because, hey, the world isn't collapsing for them, now is it?  In fact, life couldn't be better.

So it goes.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/28/we-need-dramatic-social-and-technological-changes-is-societal-collapse-inevitable

'We need dramatic social and technological changes': is societal collapse inevitable?

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Quote"We need dramatic social and technological changes."

Which is exactly what I have been saying for twenty years.

And like most cerebral idiots he has to examine 361 studies, and 73 books to come to this earthshaking conclusion.

And the point is change, not study.  But that is too hard.

Quote from: K-Dog on Dec 30, 2024, 01:09 PM

Quote"We need dramatic social and technological changes."

Which is exactly what I have been saying for twenty years.

And like most cerebral idiots he has to examine 361 studies, and 73 books to come to this earthshaking conclusion.

And the point is change, not study.  But that is too hard.

You know what the kicker is? He can back his theory with all those 361 studies and despite all the evidence available people would rather take some video off TikTok which says you can fit 8 billion people in the state of Texas so therefore there is no population problem. This isn't a problem about information but of peoples' (and societies) inability to grasp the truth despite evidence to the contrary. But I suppose he will need another 361 studies to reach that point...

For academics who are generally impotent for making any real change, doing "studies" and writing books makes them feel like they are doing something and making a contribution.  You can't solve a problem if you haven't identified it of course.

Issue is as we have pointed out here, the problem was already identified 20 years ago, so they're not contributing anything new.  We even know not only the problem but what needs to be done.  Problem is, except for a few survivalist types who go off grid, about nobody does the necessary powering down to be doing what needs to be done.  It's pointless anyhow, since at the same time billionaires are doubling down and powering UP.

So, we get studies, not change.

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Quote from: monsta666 on Dec 30, 2024, 01:50 PM

Quote from: K-Dog on Dec 30, 2024, 01:09 PM

Quote"We need dramatic social and technological changes."

Which is exactly what I have been saying for twenty years.

And like most cerebral idiots he has to examine 361 studies, and 73 books to come to this earthshaking conclusion.

And the point is change, not study.  But that is too hard.

You know what the kicker is? He can back his theory with all those 361 studies and despite all the evidence available people would rather take some video off TikTok which says you can fit 8 billion people in the state of Texas so therefore there is no population problem. This isn't a problem about information but of peoples' (and societies) inability to grasp the truth despite evidence to the contrary. But I suppose he will need another 361 studies to reach that point...

I read this article and would not be so quick to disparage Brozovich. I, for one, am impressed that there are actually 361 studies and 73 books on societal collapse. While like most here (I assume) I have read and am otherwise familiar with many of them, I had no idea there were so many. And while we could disparage the academic as another Johnny-come-lately, I recall a lesson learned during my years as a TV producer: "About the time you are getting sick of hearing it, other people are hearing it for the first time."

Yes, study is far easier than change. Human nature being what it is, most of us are change-averse. In my dotage I've become a real rut-person. We'll keep putting one foot in front of another until the road disappears.

And in terms of "we need dramatic social and technological changes," money says not gonna happen. Idealism is dead: sold and stripped for parts. Money rules, and Mammon is hungry.

Quotethere are actually 361 studies and 73 books on societal collapse.

I was surprised too.

QuoteAnd in terms of "we need dramatic social and technological changes," money says not gonna happen. Idealism is dead: sold and stripped for parts. Money rules, and Mammon is hungry.

Not exactly, for as you say:

QuoteAbout the time you are getting sick of hearing it, other people are hearing it for the first time.

I am a critic of the academic crowd.  It takes two years to get a book written or something like that.  Academics are never up to date with real world events.  Academics abstract reality.  Abstraction is the greatest strength of humanity, and the greatest weakness.

Considering:

QuoteThe philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.  <-- Uncle Karl

My criticism is well founded.

I tend to be more tolerant of academia as a reaction to the hard-right war on expertise, and by extension, war on objective reality. Yet Mammon's greed reaches within those halls as well. You might enjoy this about Elsevier, a major publisher and thus academic gatekeeper:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees

'Too greedy': mass walkout at global science journal over 'unethical' fees
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Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon



Some lowlights:
-From 2014 to 2017, Elsevier put some articles behind a paywall that should have been open access.

-Elsevier rejected a paper for publication because it didn't cite enough of the journal's previously published papers.

-More than 40 leading scientists resigned from the editorial board of the journal Neuroimage in protest at what they described as Elsevier's "greed".

-Elsevier published six publications between 2000 and 2005 that were sponsored by pharmaceutical companies but did not disclose sponsorship.

-Elsevier has campaigned against openness to protect its paywall-based business.

-Universities have canceled their Elsevier subscriptions, citing costs and lack of open access.

Another symptom of late-stage metastatic capitalism.