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Published today on Yale Environment 360, the following article concerns plastic pollution. It seems plastic pollution is uncomfortably close to behaving as a greenhouse gas and while this might be obvious to this community, it is novel research that forms a direct link.

Collapse related because plastic pollution is unaccounted for when it comes to climate models. In other words - this is very bad.

Again and again, we find new sources of warming. This does not bode well for the human race.

Published May 4th on Reactor, this article covers the striking parallels between the villain Wilson Fisk and modern day autocrats. Collapse related because autocracy is swallowing the civilized world and just as we see in this TV show - the vast majority are content to downplay or outright ignore the disaster and the grave consequences that will follow. Or they are too busy worrying about these pesky things called families and jobs.

Bit off topic but - watch any interview of the guy that plays the villain Wilson Fisk. His name is Vincent D'Onofrio and in real life he's a god damn teddy bear of a human being.

Published today on Futura, the following article concerns the growing instability of the global climate.

Collapse related because of this:

"Global warming continues relentlessly, exactly as scientists have predicted since the 1980s. Millions of people are facing ever-greater consequences."

And this:

"We do have solutions, but what stands in our way are disinformation campaigns and the lobbying power of the fossil fuel industry."

Even if you are philosophically and technologically and scientifically correct - you are still up against forces you cannot possibly fight. Unless you're a billionaire, but in that case - why would you even care?

Published today on Phys, this article concerns a new study in the journal NPJ Viruses. Spillover is one of the most horrifying words in my lexicon, in the same league as "overshoot". These are dangerous things.

Collapse related because climate change is driving zoonotic diseases and this will impact global health, trade and macroeconomic forces. It is also reminiscent of a certain rodent-carrying plague ... you know the one.

One user recently asked on this sub why we are losing subscribers so fast.

I agree that reddit and the internet as a whole has become a ghost of its former self, largely thanks to dumb bots and AI.

But another explanation was offered - that a lot of posts here exaggerate the threat level. I agree with that a lot more. I hope that my posts are not wildly exaggerated but I'm sure after over 1000 posts here I am guilty of this too.

In my defense - I have seen a lot of shocking headlines that I decided not to post because they were unnecessarily dramatic and experts on that particular subject will explain why the headline is hysterical BS.

This was published recently on Twisted Sifter and I'm sharing it because I think it helps to remember you are not alone.

Therapists don't know how to deal with this. Climate anxiety isn't really taught. But it gets worse - because how do you calm down a patient when most of what they say is true and their emotional reactions are perfectly understandable?

Forgive the clickbaity headline, I'm not the editor...

I'm flairing this as Food because that's what it's really about, for our purposes.

Soil is drying and dying at a remarkable pace and this is leading to a disastrous future for global agriculture. When it comes to global food production the fossil fuel industry has a lot of neat tricks up her sleeve but sadly all the magic in the world can't turn back the clock.

Collapse related because soil is struggling to meet the demands of billions of hungry humans. Nearly every acre of arable land on this tragic Earth has already been seized. We must now rely on industrial might to fill the ecological dead zones - simple problems for the next generation to solve of course.

One wonders how many more tricks the agricultural industry has before they really feel the squeeze.

Just kidding - tax relief, subsidies and bailouts for everyone!

I'm going to start with a quote from this article because it is more consequential than anything I have to say -

"A different version of stabilization was thought to involve Russia and the EU prior to the Ukraine invasion. Each side relied heavily on the other—EU on Russia for roughly 40% of its oil and gas, Moscow on Europe for over 45% of its exports. Neither, presumably, would risk the relationship of codependency, as both derived much benefit from it."

"But this presumption was wrong. Indeed, it was wrong even from the beginning in Russia’s case. And it has become increasingly mistaken with each passing decade in the new century."

I knew people in late 2022 that supported Ukraine. I knew people who supported Russia too. They were both *so sure* of themselves, and it broke my heart.

They all said the same - this will be over in a matter of days/weeks/months because of XYZ. Their delusions came from this idea that governments or any large group of people can act rationally and consistently, that lasting peace is just a conversation away.

Collapse related because conflict is growing worldwide for increasingly irrational and unpredictable reasons

And to anyone still spewing this apathetic arrogance that "life used to be worse" - yeah, maybe, but no dictator has ever had algorithms based on mass data collection, nuclear weapons or biochemical warfare at their disposal.

We are doing relatively better as a species, and that's wonderful, but the stakes have never been higher. We are not here because cooler heads prevailed.

Our species has thus far survived mechanized warfare. This is blind luck and you'd be a fool to thing otherwise.

This is being displayed this week at an art exhibit in Germany. The artist in the video explains what it is exactly but its pretty unsettling without context too.

Psycho billionaires run the world, how could any of this possibly end badly?

Forgive the author for describing Israel as "profoundly diverse" lmfao

Published this week on The Jerusalem Post, this article covers how civilizations fall.

Anyone familiar with the fall of Rome knows that external threats were not the ultimate end to the empire. It was internal strife and subterfuge. Collapse related because external threats are not enough when it comes to regional collapse - it almost always comes from within. No amount of division or unity will fix this.

Published today on The Mountaineer, this article covers the lack of snow among the mountains of Greece. Interestingly, despite covering the majority of the country's terrain, it has the least studied mountain ranges in Europe.

Collapse related because Greece has lost at least half of her snow in the last 40 years, which is the blink of an eye on a climatic timeline.

The article states that this cannot be explained by normal climate variability.