Breaking Down: Collapse

Sources: Democrats introduce impeachment articles against Trump and Hegseth as nearly 100 lawmakers call for 25th Amendment | The Independent Trump uses the language of annihilation to threaten Iran | AP News House Democrat announces impeachment push against Hegseth over Iran war Trump pulls back on Iran threats after warning a 'civilization will die tonight' if deal isn't reached | PBS News Trump...

What a fun little game we play. Step 1: Scientific consensus is too conservative. Step 2: Something happens "shocking scientists". Step 3: Articles are released describing how it happened faster than expected, but don't worry because someone will fix it. Step 4: No changes are made, and the models remain conservative. Repeat. Earth is warming faster than previously estimated, new study shows - Los...

It's not just the current geopolitical situation that's putting food supply under stress - it's been growing for a long time and is getting worse. ‘I’ve never seen anything like it’: Hawaii’s small farmers begin recovery after catastrophic flooding | Hawaii | The Guardian Couriermail.com.au | Subscribe to The Courier Mail for exclusive stories UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms aft...

Established and important US infrastructure is rapidly being demolished, not as a forced response to desperate need, but in the petulant outbursts of a grifting narcissist. The US government just used a dormant 48-year-old committee to strip endangered species protections from the entire Gulf of Mexico. : r/collapse Trump’s ‘God Squad’ chose oil drilling over endangered species in the Gulf. This w...

New updates to economists' thoughts on AI and job loss, and new research shows the "heat island" effect of data centers on more than 340 million people globally. Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN States with the most data centers Economists Are Drawing Stronger Connections Between A.I. and Jobs - The New York Times Top leadership ex...

Sources: Trump announces he is issuing an unconstitutional executive order to shut down mail-in voting nationwide and he will defund states if they do not comply with him : r/law Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections – The White House Trump Suffers His Fourth—and Worst—Legal Blow in Just Hours | The New Republic Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hear...

This was a wild week in the climate, and I fear every week will be this way moving forward. Here's some news from the around world. Also, please forgive the audio quality. I recorded it twice, and the second time I apparently had the wrong mic recording. I love you, but not enough to record it a 3rd time. Sorry! Limiting global warming to 2C would not ‘rule out’ extreme impacts - Carbon Brief UK f...

The world is suffering the consequences of Trump and Israel's war on Iran. How long will our oil woes last? Israeli chief of staff warns army on verge of 'collapse' amid troop shortage France confirms oil crisis, says 30-40 percent of Gulf energy infrastructure destroyed - Business - France 24 Cuban health-care workers struggle to support the sick amid U.S. oil embargo | CBC Accessibility Philippi...

Donald Trump hates women. Here's some ways he's showing it: US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say | US immigration | The Guardian A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion Texas passes bill banning abortion pills from being mailed to the state - The 19th Any Texas resident could sue over abortion pills unde...

3 brand new reports highlight the various ways that superbugs are proliferating around the world. Are we heading into a post-antibiotic world? The Cost of War We Aren’t Talking About: Superbugs • The Austin Chronicle Drought could fuel the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs as climate change worsens, new research suggests | Live Science EXPERT REACTION: Soils exposed to glyphosate might also b...

Sources: Judge Ends Asylum Claims for Liam Ramos and His Family Stephen Miller is pushing states to stop educating undocumented children | The Independent Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday - POLITICO Bushehr nuclear plant hit again as Pentagon deploys 82nd Airborne — Day 25 of Iran war escalates Chris Murphy accuses Trump administration of insider trading Trump says he's 'gl...

Anthropogenic mass is overtaking natural biomass. Such hubris from humanity leads to collapse. In this episode we discuss recent findings in pharmaceutical waste and how it hurts local aquatic ecosystems. Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass | Nature The Hidden Environmental Impact of Pharmaceutical Waste Antibiotics found in rivers raise new concerns about water safety - Earth.com Pl...

A new $1billion disaster in the US unfolds thanks to climate change, and the WMO's report on the State of the Climate goes into detail on the growing energy imbalance. Thousands urged to evacuate as Hawaii flooding anticipated to cause widespread damage | CBC News Earth’s climate swings increasingly out of balance Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high | Oce...

It's been a while since we broached the topic of H5N1. Let's talk about its status, and the ways it effects the world beyond just the fear of impending human to human transmission. H5N1 in marine mammals is spreading: Research tallies over 50,000 seals and sea lions killed along South America's coast More animals die from H5N1 avian flu at Ano Nuevo State Park in California | CIDRAP Hong Kong bans...

This weeks heat dome in the US West would be virtually impossible without climate change, according to scientists. What does it mean for the rest of the summer, when you factor in a potentially Super El Nino, catastrophically dry conditions in some areas, and other destabilizing conditions? The US is on the verge of an all-time heat record for March | CNN Heatwave scorching US west ‘virtually impo...

Sources: Red Flag Alert - Anti-Trans Genocide in the USA - #3 | Lemkin Institute U.S. court allows state bans on gender-affirming care for adults in unprecedented ruling | Advocate.com Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas | US news | The Guardian ICE Accused Of Detaining 14-Year-Old Girl In Massachusetts As 'Bait' To Snare Her Father —...

The rate of climate news and research should be alarming... are you as desensitized to it as I am? US weather to go nuts with blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome, atmospheric river all at once The most extreme March heatwave in US history is coming : r/collapse Stripped of life: the deadly South Australian algal bloom is still spreading one year on | Marine life | The Guardian Mangrove waters are lo...

We talk often of the effects of CO2 on our atmosphere and climate, but what about its effect on our bodies? New research shines the light. Carbon dioxide overload, detected in human blood, suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years | Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health | Springer Nature Link Short-term exposure to indoor carbon dioxide and cognitive task performance: A systematic rev...

A discussion on the various effects of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. I feel this is our last year : r/collapse On the Brink in Hormuz: Iran War and the Global Order The Global Costs of Instability in the Strait of Hormuz Fertilizer isn't getting through the Straight of Hormuz, which could lead to a global food crisis. | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ‘A big burden for farmers’:...

Some anecdotal experiences regarding the increasing anti-intellectualism in the age of collapse. So many Americans minds are completely rotted. : r/collapse With how insanely warm and dry this winter has been, have you seen people changing their perspectives on climate change? : r/collapse Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See ac...

Sources: Banning Islam, deporting Muslims discussed at Fort Worth church after primary elections | Fort Worth Report "Political suicide": Idaho Republicans vote no on overturning same-sex marriage - LGBTQ Nation Trump administration threatens eminent domain to seize warehouses for ICE detention Kids Online Safety Act: New Protections and Parental Controls. (119_HR_7757) SAVE Plan Blocked: Student-...

Today we discuss yet another war, waged by the US and Israel against Iran. The war is destabilizing conditions in the Middle East and threatens economic catastrophe throughout the rest of the world. The latest: Iran’s president says nation 'will not bow' to pressure from US and Israel Tehran indicates Khamenei's son will be named supreme leader as Israel expands Iran strikes Iran war's targets wid...

Researchers stumbled upon the discovery of a glacier collapse in East Antarctica, which was determined to be the fastest glacial collapse every recorded. It spells trouble for other (larger) glaciers in similar situations. Antarctica just saw the fastest glacier collapse ever recorded | ScienceDaily Please join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Aca...

One of the things I fear most about collapse is that there's so much we don't understand, and that inevitably means there will be consequences we can't predict. Today I go through a couple of recent findings that weren't necessarily expected by the scientific community, and therefore not accounted for in climate models. Antarctic warming is altering atmospheric stability: New evidence from the 195...

Some new research has come out showing that for every .1C rise in temperature, there's a 7.2% loss in marine life. Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds | Marine life | The Guardian Long-term warming reduces fish biomass, but heatwaves shift it | Nature Ecology & Evolution Climate Reanalyzer Scientists Thought Antarctic Ice Melt Helped Fight Climate Change....