Another interesting post by Sarah @collapse2050 at:
https://www.collapse2050.com/how-americas-size-means-for/
“Why does America's size prevent popular uprisings and protests like seen in France and the UK? (1/3)

Another interesting post by Sarah @collapse2050 at:
https://www.collapse2050.com/how-americas-size-means-for/
“Why does America's size prevent popular uprisings and protests like seen in France and the UK? (1/3)
"The Accelerated Construction of Techno-Authoritarian Infrastructure"
This is the first in a series of articles examining BigTech’s threats to democratic society and exploring pathways forward.
https://freeknowledge.eu/accelerated-construction-techno-authoritarian-infra
'Evolution has made humans both Machiavellian and born socialists'
A timely read, arguing that many ills and inequalities in human society are born of a competition between innate evolutionary traits deeply embedded in all of us. It clearly points out scaling issues, how larger societies help enable, reward and entrench treachery.
It was also great to learn of the Masai and Tanzanian needs-based bonding sharing culture 'Osotua'. More of that.
The Murray-Darling Basin
A comprehensive evaluation of water reform in the country's largest river system
"Without bold action to recover more water, rivers that sustain life across south-eastern Australia potentially face collapse."
"There's a really important sentence in the opening of their evaluation report where they acknowledge that First Nations had been intentionally excluded from the way water is managed across Australia...First Nations peoples have been here caring for water for 65,000 years."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-25/murray-darling-basin-plan-review-water-reporter-card/105568258
#MDB #water #rivers #biodiversity #wildlife #irrigation #extraction #ecosystems #collapse
you have to accept, to some degree, that existence could not care less about your desires and opinions.
as art put it: you have to be able to sit in your room alone and be at ease with the world as it is to be able to fight.
art berman was right about a lot of things, but the most important point really was that the self, the inability or even rejection of humans to see themselves as a small part of a bigger whole, stands in the way of humans becoming resilient &, well, happy.
it is still intellectual sophistry, but he has a point there.
893 #ClimateEmergency #Trump #ClimateFascism
"Trump's regime is borne out of crisis #trump #collapse #climate #fascism" [ ± 1-3 min]
by OurChangingClimate [Jul 20, 2025]
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DeFiD3yDusY
#USriseUp #FascistsAreHere
#TalkAboutIt #CallYourRep #VoteUpAndDownTheBallot
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#StopThePlunder #StopRapingNature
#ClimateBreakDown
Escaping MAGA: The Psychology of Undoing Authoritarian Belief
Manifesto for World Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pVxcbbPtw0
Rise Up, oh people of the world
Wake up, wake up!
We’re at the cusp of a geopolitical power shift moment.
The hierarchical, top down power structures that have ruled the world for thousands of years are now collapsing right before our eyes.
The street now holds unprecedented power, unprecedented sway…
Climate change rendering Canada's largest city inoperative.
"The flooding rendered an accessibility ramp inaccessible, a TTC spokesperson said, but the flooding has not delayed streetcar or subway service."
#Canada #ClimateChange #climateemergency #climatecrisis #Toronto #flooding #transit #collapse
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/heavy-rains-bring-flooding-to-toronto-shutting-down-roads-affecting-transit-routes/article_b7854997-5d72-47de-bc03-939ce314081e.html
i want to screenshot all the #doomer nonsense from bluesky and send it to my now-doomer-guru ex-comrades and say: look what you have created.
but we are living in an age of no consequences.
maybe the creation will one day eat their creators.
I’m dealing with multiple severe chronic illnesses, including serious heart issues and frequent loss of consciousness.
Yet most days I feel like supply chain issues will be what kills me.
It’s terrifying to rely on medications & medical supplies during these uncertain times.
You can’t “just stock up” on medications.
Financial issues aside, there’s insurance issues and often limits as to how much a person can have.
There’s virtually no way you can “prep” for medication shortages, and it’s scary.
I spent this entire day trying to track down a medication that’s on back order.
Trying to find an alternative.
Trying to cobble together enough to survive.
People who are non disabled have no idea how scary it is to know that supply chain disruptions could quickly & painfully end your life.
We need a system to ensure medication needs are met.
18-Jul-2025
Why some #ecosystems #collapse suddenly—and others don’t
Laboratory experiments on magnets provide surprising insights into the future of Earth’s #tippingPoints
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1091104 #science #ecology
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And now that we have all read the explainer above on #ACC , the Antarctic Circumpolar Current(s),
we can better appreciate what Matt England explains here from about minute 50 onwards
https://www.youtube.com/live/39T7bW7KA18
He actually answers a question I put to him beforehand on Bluesky, regarding my confusion about salinification versus freshening.
The beginning of this #ClimateChat episode hosted by Dan Miller and Leon Simons
is all about Matt's paper with Rahmstorf and others about the 2023 bananas in the North Atlantic. You may recall: low wind speed as primary cause by far for the marine heatwaveS 2023 that gripped regions of the North Atlantic one after the other.
Matt explains the multiple ways wind over oceans contribute to cooling.
a) mixing b) white caps on the waves = albedo increase c) ocean spray or fog = albedo increase, and one more I now forget.
As is Dan Miller's habit, he also quickly asks Matt about #geoengineering, bringing SO2 into the #stratosphere .
Matt's reply: 1) angry that fossil fuel industry should be let off the hook by this
2) realistically, the political mindset lets Matt expect that geo engineering will be done.
3) whether he supports this is not answered.
4) as an afterthought, he adds that ocean acidification from relentless CO2 emissions does continue despite geo-engineering, and also the CO2 take-up and later re-release into the atmosphere continues.
Dan Miller also grazes his pet topic #ShippingSO2 . Matt politely agrees that it is a bananas factor – but a small one.
Then comes the Southern Ocean part (thank you!).
At which point the question is also raised and answered with a NO: whether seafloor #clathrate on Antarctica's continental shelf might thaw and cause a methane bomb.
And only one short moment at the end on #AMOC collapse, about which Matt also published a paper recently, namely the #collapse impacts non-Europe areas, such as teleconnections to adjacent basins and into the Southern Hemisphere
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01380-y
I think, my question stole precious time from the AMOC part.
The documentary Wasser, "Water" shows two installations of a fog water collector, one on a Portuguese island and one on a hill in arid North Africa.
The installation consists of a metal wire mesh standing upright on a hill, a collection vessel and a pipe to funnel collected water downhill to where people live.
Wind blows through the mesh. Moisture in the air condenses on the cool metal and the droplets run down into the collector.
This version here is a tad more elaborate than in the documentary
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-tower-pulls-drinking-water-out-of-thin-air-180950399/
This new version uses hydrogel – a chemical compound, so very high-tech:
https://news.mit.edu/2025/window-sized-device-taps-air-safe-drinking-water-0611
We depleted ground water in many areas so the wire mesh idea is relevant in parts of Germany and Europe, too.
Not being able to dig a well as deep as needed due to depletion, and not being able to run pumps without electricity anyway, such a mesh, left behind by civilisation, might be a feasible solution for survivor communities after the #collapse.
Not as sole drinking water provision. Because if it were, they also couldn't live off the – then also dry – land and should better pack up and move elsewhere.
But I see use for the mesh installation for comfortable household access to water.
The ground water table will only take 200 years to replenish to pre-industrial levels.
Le dessin de Besse : urgence climatique. (2025)
https://www.informassue.tuxfamily.org/Changement_climatique.php#dessin_de_besse_urgence_climatique_bau2
Et le #BAU2 (Business As Usual 2) : Effondrement dû à la #pollution (équivalent au changement climatique).
We can acquaint ourselves with collapse.
Sara El-Sayeh, Post Growth Fellow, introduces the idea of micro-dreaming as a practice to build imaginative bridges between the current world and the one we want to inhabit.
In this beautiful digital zine and article, Sara offers inspiring reflections on the seas (and Cs) of collapse and instructions for how to begin micro-dreaming (full zine here): https://medium.com/postgrowth/acquainting-ourselves-with-collapse-b0e1333413db
#Russia's ongoing #economic #collapse spreads to the defense industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=NmHYSw6NoHQ6Cflz&v=kAGji6lW9fc&feature=youtu.be
@owgf.org Unfortunately, #civilisation is doomed in any event. If #climate change was the ONLY problem, it MIGHT be salvageable, but it's only one problem of many, including, e.g., the #biodiversity crisis, #overpopulation & the grotesque #economic #inequality between countries & individuals. There is also instability arising from #ethnic, #national & #religious conflicts. The term that gets used is #Polycrisis, & #collapse can't be averted.