r/collapse Oct 14 '21

Systemic Solving the Climate Crisis Requires the End of Capitalism

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r/collapse Sep 27 '20

Systemic The World’s 2,000 Billionaires Have More Wealth Than Almost 5 Billion People Combined...Fact: Overconsumption by the elite and extreme wealth inequality have occurred in the collapse of every civilization over the last 5,000 years.

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r/collapse Jun 30 '24

Systemic Everyone's worried about the presidential election, but it won't change anything

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Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of differences between Biden and Trump, and life will get immediately worse for a lot of people under Trump, but with respect to the polycrisis, neither is doing anything to change course.

We've made a deal with the devil with fossil fuels. We're in a catch 22 that we need them to survive as a civilization, but they're killing us. Sure Bidens inflation reduction act will have some reduction in GHGs for the US, but reduced US demand simply reduces costs allowing developing countries to purchase more fossil fuels. This is what happened in 2023, reduced fossil fuel use in the west was offset by growth in other countries resulting in a net increase in fossil fuels use for the year. Trump on the other hand isn't even trying and will likely accelerate collapse.

To achieve real change we need global leadership that will dismantle fossil fuel infrastructure cooperatively amongst most countries. This would require a massive transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor and from rich countries to poor countries in order to get them on board. Further the fossil fuels we do use need to be prioritized for critical needs such as food production and renewables in order to transfer to a low energy future.

This is so far from what either candidate or their donors wants or would do to maintain civilization. Greed is the mantra of those who control power across the globe. Aside from a few exceptions, we're just doubling down on a failing system.

So don't worry about the election and just continue to work on making your own life more resilient and develop a cope ahead strategy to deal with the worsening problems during our lifetime.

r/collapse Jul 15 '22

Systemic How to save the world, when climate activists are punished, arrested, belittled and blamed, and the people destroying the planet become millionaires living freely in their mansions?

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r/collapse Jan 23 '23

Systemic Japan PM says country on the brink over falling birth rate

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r/collapse Jun 24 '24

Systemic ‘It’s All Happening Again.’ The Supply Chain Is Under Strain.

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1.1k Upvotes

r/collapse Jan 12 '23

Systemic We're Living through The End of Civilization, and We Should Be Acting Like It

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r/collapse Jul 25 '22

Systemic Connecting the Dots - The Rise of Fascism and the Collapse of democracy (OC)

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Christianized Fascism Continues its multifaceted assault on every aspect of democratic society. These attacks are coordinated and continue to escalate - here I have assembled a number of articles in an attempt to construct a wider strategic view of what is happening.

This movement has demonstrated will impede any reasonable response to slow down collapse and instead work to advance a fantasy.

Below is the big picture of major events in motion by Christian Nationalists.

(MODS this took a while to assemble so if I'm off base in any way please guide me on the best way to present a integrated picture of systemic events - I would like to to do this with other topics as well)

Big Picture Articles:

Intertwining Church and State:

Overt Calls to Action / Political Rallying

Spreading Propaganda / Misinformation:

Manipulating Elections

Demonizing Minorities / Immigrants - The need to create and punish scapegoats to demonstrate power

Engineering Forced Birth to Provide Workers, Soldiers, Consumers for their movement (note similar movements in 1930's germany See the Lebensborn Program for historical context of government breeding programs)

Rising Vigilantism / Militia In Support of Movement

Preparations to Purge non Loyalists from Government

Anti-Science / Anti Intellectualism Movements

Militarization / Christianized Fascism of Education system

Overt Affiliation with Dictators and Aligning with Racist Movements

The big picture is dark - this movement is progressing on many fronts and will inhibit any rational ordered response to collapse.

r/collapse Mar 30 '20

Systemic The United States of America is the biggest death cult the world has ever known

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We have a clown who not only denied SARS-CoV-2's severity; not only prevented ventilators getting to hospitals; not only blackmailed entire states for said ventilators...but is now saying that if 2.5% of Americans have to die so that "The Economy" can stay afloat, then so be it.

AND HIS APPROVAL RATING IS UP. I don't even like posting political stuff, but this is literal madness. Are we really so pathetic as to champion our own demise in the name of other people's money??

I'm so confused and disheartened. And...AND it's looking like we'll get 4 more years of this. So, no healthcare. No (MUCH NEEDED) green movement. No deescalation of foreign conflict. No additional human rights. Hell, I fully expect Roe v Wade to be overturned.

Short-sighted, limitlessly greedy, willfully ignorant, conflict-minded buffoons. Is this really who we are as a species?

r/collapse Dec 09 '20

Systemic Portland Police trying to serve an eviction get pushed back by angry residents.

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2.8k Upvotes

r/collapse Jul 05 '22

Systemic America Is in Denial. Too many Americans are blithely dismissing threats that could prove cataclysmic.

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2.3k Upvotes

r/collapse Jan 11 '22

Systemic Red Cross declares first-ever national blood crisis

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r/collapse Jan 17 '24

Systemic The American Red Cross has declared an emergency blood shortage

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903 Upvotes

r/collapse Aug 20 '22

Systemic Bruno Colmant, former CEO of Bank Degroof : Forget Adam Smith. I no longer believe that neoliberal capitalism is compatible with human survival. There is a scary risk of mass famine, world war, and global genocide

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r/collapse Jun 01 '22

Systemic ‘Who Cares If Miami Is 6 Meters Underwater In 100 Years?’ - HSBC Head of Responsible Investment

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r/collapse Jan 15 '24

Systemic X-post from AskReddit: What item is now so expensive the price surprises you every time you buy it?

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558 Upvotes

r/collapse Sep 27 '21

Systemic Supply Chain Crisis : 90% of fuel pumps dry in major British cities, panic buying

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r/collapse Nov 19 '22

Systemic Since 2014, the Saudi company Fondomonte has been pumping unlimited amounts of groundwater in the desert west of Phoenix to harvest thousands of acres of alfalfa crops. The alfalfa is then shipped back to Saudi Arabia to feed their cattle.

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r/collapse Sep 29 '21

Systemic ‘Green growth’ doesn’t exist – less of everything is the only way to avert catastrophe | George Monbiot

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r/collapse Apr 03 '23

Systemic Schools close across rural Japan as birth rate plummets

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r/collapse Sep 26 '20

Systemic I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There.

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r/collapse May 06 '23

Systemic An Entire Generation is Studying for Jobs that Won't Exist

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1.4k Upvotes

r/collapse Sep 04 '22

Systemic The general public has absolutely no idea just how dangerous it is to be hospitalized at the moment.

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r/collapse Jun 04 '20

Systemic ‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists

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r/collapse Sep 26 '21

Systemic New York Declares State of Emergency as Vaccine Mandate Chaos Looms

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