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Scientists Predict There's 90% Chance Civilization Will Collapse Within 'Decades'
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2020-08-24 at 5:53 PM UTC
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2020-08-24 at 10:43 PM UTC"Collapse" is not like an apocalyptic event, it is more like a slow and steady erosion in the quality of life. Civilization collapse really encompasses many things. Just off the top of my head: poverty increases, food security decreases, inequality increases, ecosystem deteriorate, etc. Unless you are in a conflict zone, it's not like you will wake up one day and your life is inexplicable different, but overtime the trend for society is downwards. If x million people lose their jobs or are evicted, you may not even notice in your part of the country. But all these things add up.
Lets roleplay a very likely scenario:
You may be paying 30% more for pork cause of the collapse of the swine industry of china. All your other groceries have increased in price too because the migrant laborers are quarantined. Not a big deal to your life on its own. Then a war breaks out in the middle east. Okay, your gas price increases, but you'll just drive less. The pandemic causes your company to make cuts, but luckily you keep your job. To make up for the lost workers you work more hours for the same salary. You're more exhausted, but that's just life right? The city has lost all its revenue due to the pandemic too, and can't afford to fix the roads, and your already more expensive car hits a pothole, which will cost you $1000 to fix. Then a riot breaks out because the police shoot an unarmed man in the downtown of your city and the courts refuse to charge the police officer. Your company has to close down for a couple weeks due to the riots. Now the accumulation of all this: Your groceries are more expensive, gas prices are up, you don't even have your car and you have an unexpected bill that you no longer can afford due to your job loss. Let's throw in a hurricane or a wildfire into the mix too.
Take that and add it with the millions of jobless and homeless and the now millions of people that find themselves in your shoes. This is not even an absurd scenario. This is the reality of collapse. -
2020-08-24 at 10:44 PM UTCClimate chaos: Extreme heat, wildfires and record-setting storms suggest a frightening future is already here:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-heat-wave-wildfires-hurricanes-derecho/#app -
2020-08-24 at 10:45 PM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe Take that and add it with the millions of jobless and homeless and the now millions of people that find themselves in your shoes. This is not even an absurd scenario. This is the reality of collapse.
Nine million new jobs have been created in the last 90 days in the US.
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Also, the DOW is only about 800 points down from what it was before the shutdown and NASDAQ is about 1550 points higher.
All this and the shutdown is still ongoing in many places. -
2020-08-24 at 10:47 PM UTC
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2020-08-24 at 10:52 PM UTC
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2020-08-24 at 10:53 PM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe "Collapse" is not like an apocalyptic event, it is more like a slow and steady erosion in the quality of life. Civilization collapse really encompasses many things. Just off the top of my head: poverty increases, food security decreases, inequality increases, ecosystem deteriorate, etc. Unless you are in a conflict zone, it's not like you will wake up one day and your life is inexplicable different, but overtime the trend for society is downwards. If x million people lose their jobs or are evicted, you may not even notice in your part of the country. But all these things add up.
Lets roleplay a very likely scenario:
You may be paying 30% more for pork cause of the collapse of the swine industry of china. All your other groceries have increased in price too because the migrant laborers are quarantined. Not a big deal to your life on its own. Then a war breaks out in the middle east. Okay, your gas price increases, but you'll just drive less. The pandemic causes your company to make cuts, but luckily you keep your job. To make up for the lost workers you work more hours for the same salary. You're more exhausted, but that's just life right? The city has lost all its revenue due to the pandemic too, and can't afford to fix the roads, and your already more expensive car hits a pothole, which will cost you $1000 to fix. Then a riot breaks out because the police shoot an unarmed man in the downtown of your city and the courts refuse to charge the police officer. Your company has to close down for a couple weeks due to the riots. Now the accumulation of all this: Your groceries are more expensive, gas prices are up, you don't even have your car and you have an unexpected bill that you no longer can afford due to your job loss. Let's throw in a hurricane or a wildfire into the mix too.
Take that and add it with the millions of jobless and homeless and the now millions of people that find themselves in your shoes. This is not even an absurd scenario. This is the reality of collapse.
there wont be a collapse due to the sheer size of america.
but it will decline slowly like bidens cognitive ablity.
none knows when it started and no one will know when it will end but its happening before our very eyes. -
2020-08-24 at 10:56 PM UTC
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2020-08-24 at 11:03 PM UTCFleeing the climate: The 'great migration' ahead
https://phys.org/news/2020-08-climate-great-migration.htmlClimate models are in agreement: higher temperatures and the increase in heat waves will make many areas of our already overpopulated planet unlivable. The results of a recent study speak for themselves, finding that in next 50 years, temperatures will rise more than they have in the last 6,000 years. For most of human history, people lived in a surprisingly restricted range of temperatures and the alteration of such balances, even moderate, brings great consequences.
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2020-08-24 at 11:04 PM UTC^ It's all bullshit and bogus data. It's a fund raiser to fuel the globalist agenda, nothing more.
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2020-08-24 at 11:06 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny there wont be a collapse due to the sheer size of america.
but it will decline slowly like bidens cognitive ablity.
none knows when it started and no one will know when it will end but its happening before our very eyes.
Collapse, in this context, refers to the significant loss of an established level or complexity towards a much simpler state. It can occur differently within many areas, orderly or chaotically, and be willing or unwilling. It does not necessarily imply human extinction or a singular, global event. Although, the longer the duration, the more it resembles a ‘decline’ instead of collapse. -
2020-08-24 at 11:07 PM UTC
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2020-08-24 at 11:15 PM UTC
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2020-08-24 at 11:17 PM UTC
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2020-08-24 at 11:23 PM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe Collapse, in this context, refers to the significant loss of an established level or complexity towards a much simpler state. It can occur differently within many areas, orderly or chaotically, and be willing or unwilling. It does not necessarily imply human extinction or a singular, global event. Although, the longer the duration, the more it resembles a ‘decline’ instead of collapse.
the word collapse, like the word explosion, are speed-dependent in any context.
a collapse, or an explosion that happens slowly are neither collapse nor explosion.
their decline, or combustion.
