Collapse isn't coming, it's already scheduled (Published by Big Think, featuring Professor Eric Cline)

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TheCosmosItself1@reddit

Buy gold and silver, solar panels and batteries, and learn to grow your own food.

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Rumhand@reddit

Ok so the last sentence sounds like a rock/metal band callout. I'm now imagining Axl Rose singing "Your're in the jungle baby, buy solar panels and batteries, you're gonna diiiiieeeeee"

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diedlikeCambyses@reddit

Well I just checked to daily CO2 given it's April, 431 lol.

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ParadeSit@reddit

Maybe I’m stupid, but I don’t understand what good gold and silver will be if things go to shit.

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Ozy_Flame@reddit

A healthy acceptance of death as an inevitability and a quick/painless method of when and how to go is going to be a cottage industry in the coming years.

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The idea that something can be “done” is part and parcel of modernity. We can do something about problems, but while problems can be solved, predicaments have to be confronted. The problem-solution binary isn’t entirely useful for us. We’re in a difficult transition where the stories we need aren’t readily available, but I imagine that’s one place to start without being too prescriptive.

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xjackrabbitslimx@reddit

Great point

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SaxManSteve@reddit (OP)

SS: This is clipped from a longer video about the Late Bronze Age collapse. This shorter clipped video, however focuses mainly on the present moment. You would think the title choice from Big Think is quite bold, but just skim the comments and it's wild to see how almost everyone agrees that collapse is occuring and that it's unlikely that modernity can be preserved for much longer...

Some of the top comments:

The most important sign of collapse is when everyone knows the system is broken, but nobody is able to change it because it's either too complex or the vested interests prevent it.

The problem is that our leaders are accelerating the decline. It is almost as if they want us to fail.

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FantasticOutside7@reddit

Not “almost as if”, they do. They view the poor as subhumans, and poor is anyone making less than 10 or $100 million a year (or a woman, or people of color, or non-Christian or or or). As Carlin said it’s a small group and you’re not in it.

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jayesper@reddit

But that makes them as such. And people are waking up to that fact.

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errie_tholluxe@reddit

We live in a simple complex system. And we are breaking down all the chains in ways that cannot be repaired or replaced. Nature might recover itself if given time, but we far outstrip anything Nature could do in the same timescale.

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Roofies666@reddit

Thanks for linking to the longer video, definitely going to check that out.

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rematar@reddit

It's a good watch.

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SinoKast@reddit

look how big that mu's feet are....

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/SaxManSteve:

SS: This is clipped from a longer video about the Late Bronze Age collapse. This shorter clipped video, however focuses mainly on the present moment. You would think the title choice from Big Think is quite bold, but just skim the comments and it's wild to see how almost everyone agrees that collapse is occuring and that it's unlikely that modernity can be preserved for much longer...

Some of the top comments:

The most important sign of collapse is when everyone knows the system is broken, but nobody is able to change it because it's either too complex or the vested interests prevent it.

The problem is that our leaders are accelerating the decline. It is almost as if they want us to fail.

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