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Last Week In Collapse is a weekly newsletter which recounts important world events in the ongoing Collapse of Civilization.
  • I couldn't sleep, so crossposted it. Apologies if you had it queued.

  • Last Week In Collapse is a weekly newsletter which recounts important world events in the ongoing Collapse of Civilization.
    substack.com Last Week in Collapse | Substack

    I write the weekly newsletter "Last Week in Collapse," which recounts important world events in the ongoing Collapse of Civilization. A slightly modified version is also posted every week to r/Collapse (without images, but for free).

    Last Week in Collapse | Substack

    > I've been following this blog since my reddit days and I've found it to be a valuable source of information on global events relating to the poly-crisis.

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    We were supposed to hit peak emissions. Why won’t they stop rising?
  • People like you are why we never stood a chance. Our species deserves this timeline.

  • 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’
  • By 2030 we are going to be 40% over capacity on fresh water resources globally.

    This massive drought is likely to kill a few billion people around the world before the massive global famine will get the rest of us.

    40% of arable land has already been depleted and 95% will be by 2050.

    And this is just water and food.

    Once arctic ice sheet coverage gets below 1,000,000 square kilometres, the planet will be absorbing more heat than it reflects. This is called a Blue Ocean Event and this will trigger the Clathrate Gun Hypothesis

    2024 Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent of 4.28 million square kilometers.

    Greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing and Fuelled by climate change, the world's oceans have broken temperature records every single day over the past year.

    So it's basically a race between if the drought and famine will kill us all first, or the BOE setting off the Clathrate Gun will. Either way, it is unlikely the human race survives the century.

    (Edited to trim that weird BOE link that didn't format fully and to combine that dought/famine sentence so it parsed better.)

  • We were supposed to hit peak emissions. Why won’t they stop rising?
  • Define 'not helping'?

    Burying your head in the sand thinking this polycrisis is salvageable, is making things worse for everyone.

    There is no future. Fantasies about having a bunch of grandkids in socialist enclaves of community gardens, or whatever, is hopium propaganda. Each new person created for this future you keep talking about, is adding a truly huge amount of carbon, heat and pollution to the planet.

    Talking about how bad the polycrisis is, is hopefully getting through to enough people and making them less likely to procreate on a dying planet.

    Less children born = less resources depleted and less carbon and heat speeding shit up = fewer dying children and more time to come up with physics defying magic to solve entropy and restore our planet.

    (Or idk, god or aliens or something equally as unlikely saves us. Surviving this is not my fantasy and you should pick something that appeals to you.)

  • Trump’s Pick to Lead U.S. Military Has Tattoos Linked to White Supremacists and Nazis
  • Never said the guy was Polish, just that plenty of the elder religious folk I grew up around had that cross in their houses and that it likely had a religious meaning, before being co-opted by the far right, that may still be in use with some groups.

    Also I'm in the UK and my Polish family here arrived in the 60's, so likely a different cultural group to many of the Polish Catholic's in the US who, from what I've gathered, emigrated much earlier.

  • Last Week In Collapse is a weekly newsletter which recounts important world events in the ongoing Collapse of Civilization.
    substack.com Last Week in Collapse | Substack

    I write the weekly newsletter "Last Week in Collapse," which recounts important world events in the ongoing Collapse of Civilization. A slightly modified version is also posted every week to r/Collapse (without images, but for free).

    Last Week in Collapse | Substack

    I've been following this blog since my reddit days and I've found it to be a valuable source of information on global events relating to the poly-crisis.

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    We were supposed to hit peak emissions. Why won’t they stop rising?
  • I get that you have hope, but magical thinking isn't going to fix this unless you are literally capable of magic or you have a time machine powered by positive thoughts or something.

    We are already globally over capacity on fresh water. Crops are already failing. The earth is already at heat storage capacity. Carbon emissions are still rising. Population numbers are still rising. Capitalist industry is still posting record profits.

    Most people won't even consider a vegan diet and campaigning for community gardens and bike lanes isn't going to magically increase the heat storage capacity of the oceans.

    So I am genuinely asking you, mitigation of resourse depletion, works how? Mitigation of thermodynamics works how?

    What type of hard work do you think can fix this?

  • The Lesser Evil
  • Pretty sure the 'enlightened centrist' in this meme represents the 'leftwing' party, does it not? That's the party that 'compromises' when the Overton window moves right.

    Everybody on the actual left is represented by the crying figure.

  • We were supposed to hit peak emissions. Why won’t they stop rising?
  • It's only going to take a few more years as hot as the last two, for the ice mass at the poles to be depleted enough that the Earth will be absorbing more heat from the sun than it reflects.

    This is called the Blue Ocean Event and it will set off the Clathrate Gun.

    Once those happen (and they're going to, soon) the planet is quite literally going to be cooked in it's own atmosphere. Not much survives being cooked.

    And while we're on the topic of apocalyptic and yet fully foreseen disasters that most people are still somehow oblivious to:

    Did you know that we're going to be 40% over capacity on fresh water globally by 2030?

    And that when this drought reduces humanity's numbers by several billion (and if the BOE doesn't happen first), the rest of us are still going to starve to death anyway, because 90% of top soil globally is at risk of depletion by 2050.

    You might want to look all those things up, and maybe book a therapy appointment or something.

  • Most energy-efficient method to cook brown rice?
  • Depending on how organised you are, and how much soup/boiled root veg you eat, soaking your rice over night and steaming it over soup/veg you're boiling the next day, is going to be much more energy efficient than probably all other methods.

    I think brown rice only takes about ten minutes to steam once it's been soaked overnight, but I have never actually tried this method myself as I don't eat that much soup or boiled root veg, and I have a bad habit of forgetting things if they're not in my direct line of sight.

    I cook all the rice I eat in an enamelled cast iron pot, on an induction stove hotplate.

    (I am hella poor these days and have metered electricity, this has been the cheapest way I've found so far that works for me.)

    • Add 1 part washed brown rice into the pot

    • Add 1.5 parts cold water into the pot

    • Add salt or stock cube/seasoning if desired

    • Bring to a rolling boil for 2 to 3 minutes

    • Cover pot with foil and lid to trap heat and steam

    • Reduce heat to the lowest it can go while simmering continously

    • Simmer for 15 minutes

    • Turn off heat but do not touch or move the pot.

    • Wait 15 to 20 minutes for the rice to steam cook the rest of the way.

    This method works great, unless it is the dead of winter and cold enough in my kitchen that the pot cools too quickly to finish steaming the rice through. In which case I add a little more water and bring it to a boil again, and cover, lower the heat and steam it again for ten minutes, while hovering over the pot shivering and debating whether or not to just eat it as is, or wait for it to be both mushy and crunchy.

  • Trump’s Pick to Lead U.S. Military Has Tattoos Linked to White Supremacists and Nazis
  • Not to detract from this guy likely yes being a massive nazi piece of shit-

    -but many deeply religious Polish Catholics who lived through WW2 and the atrocities, had (maybe still have, idk all my grandparents and aunties who did are now dead) Jerusalem crosses on their walls, usually displayed alongside their many JP2 pictures, crucifixes and black madonna's.

    Also not to say that many of these Polish Catholics weren't also massive racists, but I'm pretty sure the Jerusalem crosses they displayed were a Catholic thing for them rather than a white supremacy thing.

  • KING COLEOPTERA
  • We say from our echo chambers while marvelling at how inefficient and poorly run the world around us is.

  • I don't know how to say this to you...
  • You mean non-brewed condiment?

  • I don't know how to say this to you...
  • You wanna level up? Try Brzęczyszczykiewicz.

  • Have you tried not having a smashed hand?
  • Lmao, way to go proving you can't read.

  • ‘Minimal progress’ made this year on curbing global heating, report finds | Analysis by Climate Action Tracker puts median temperature rise by 2100 at 2.7C if current policies continue
  • But hey guys, don't panic, we can still fix this!

    If every country aside from the US just massively overshoots on their Paris accord agreements for the next decade, we will stop climate change in its tracks and save the world! And you won't even have to give up animal products, fast fashion, or your car.

    So just stay positive and keep recycling everyone! Team effort, amirite?

  • Have you tried not having a smashed hand?
  • Getting diagnosed with adhd and autism as an afab took me till my late 20's and early 30's respectively, despite having been in therapy from childhood and then seeking MH help regularly throughout my teens and early 20's for audhd related difficulties.

    Every single one of my symptoms and problems were easily explained by my having undiagnosed audhd, or very convolutedly (and often times offensively) attributed to a myriad of other MH conditions. Guess what ended up happening? And guess how much the private healthcare cost to sort it all out?

    Solidarity yo. I hope you find out what is ailing you before it becomes too damaging!

  • Have you tried not having a smashed hand?
  • So what I'm seeing here is that you really don't read so good, huh? That's ok, literacy isn't everybody's strong suit. Maybe go ask your mum or sister to explain what I wrote to you, they might have an easier time getting through on your level.

  • Can We Escape Overshoot?
    thehonestsorcerer.substack.com Can We Escape Our Predicament?

    Civilization is a double-bind: damned if we continue with it, damned if we don't. Is there a way out?

    Can We Escape Our Predicament?

    Good little article, worth a read.

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    B.C. teen in critical condition in hospital with 1st presumptive human case of bird flu
    globalnews.ca B.C. teen in critical condition in hospital with Canada’s 1st presumptive human case of bird flu | Globalnews.ca

    H5N1 bird flu is widespread in wild birds worldwide and is causing outbreaks in poultry and U.S. dairy cows, with several recent human cases in U.S. dairy and poultry workers.

    B.C. teen in critical condition in hospital with Canada’s 1st presumptive human case of bird flu  | Globalnews.ca

    >B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says the teenager in Children’s Hospital with Canada’s first presumptive case of avian flu is in critical condition. >Henry said the teen was admitted late on Friday and their condition varied over the weekend but that as of Tuesday they had taken a turn for the worst.

    Click the link for the rest of the article.

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