#Collapse

The collapse of Egypt’s Old Kingdom much like the later Middle and New Kingdoms was not a sudden event caused by outside invaders but rather a protracted unraveling driven by deep internal decay and compounded by severe environmental shifts.…

In most western economies there is a pretty standard approach to retirement planning. This tends to revolve around maximising your income early on at the expense of other things, maxing out your pension, buying a house, and long term/'safe' investing.…

Hello all, As most of you I'm very aware of the tidal wave of problems that are fast approaching in the upcoming months. And, as most of you I realize that the Hormuz crisis is not an isolated incident, but a reaction to a long predicted decline in…

An irreversible shift in nitrate levels of the Arctic Ocean (driven by climate change) is affecting the region’s food chain. Submission statement: this is very bad and obviously collapse-related; on a systemic level, this dismantles the Arctic’s role as a…

For a long time, advocates of progress have scorned the idea that humans are bound by natural limits and have condemned those who question the illusion of infinite growth as "Malthusians." However, Malthus remains an important figure.…

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why so many people in my generation feel like no matter how hard we work, things aren’t really getting better.…

Hello fellow collapse people. This is the most personal post I'll ever write. No graphs or witty commentary, sorry about that. I'm one week away from my 39th birthday, and according to the lovely people at the hospital I might not see the next one.…

Homo sapiens has evolved to reproduce exponentially, expand geographically, and consume all available resources. For most of human evolutionary history, this expansionist tendency has been restrained by negative feedback.…

A study published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a rigorous accounting of what the Boomer generation cost — and what their departure may now unlock.…

The study shows that marsh encroachment can be up to seven times more frequent on agricultural land compared to forestland in the Mid-Atlantic and that regionally, agricultural land appears to have accelerated the impacts of saltwater intrusion.…

The most comprehensive independent study of AI-powered hiring algorithms ever conducted has found stark racial disparities embedded in the tools used to screen millions of job applicants, with more than one in four applications submitted by Black job…

The climate crisis we face is now evident to everyone. This serves as a reminder of the serious danger humanity is facing due to its failure to curb carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. submitted by /u/madrid987 [link] [comments]

Supply issues caused by “warm weather”, and customers are being told to stockpile water now for drinking, cooking and washing. Plant and equipment failures over the winter, followed by not enough water to go round in the spring and summer.…

Been sitting on this for a while because I wanted to make sure I actually understood the mechanics before posting. The standard explanation for 2008 is that banks gave mortgages to people who couldn't afford them, the housing market collapsed, and…

China's latest carbon data suggests it has changed the way it calculates carbon emissions, reducing by half the emissions growth the country previously reported from 2020 to 2025, climate researchers argue in a new report.…

Humanity is consuming natural resources at a rate approximately twice as fast as the Earth's regeneration rate every year. This gap between supply and demand is called resource depletion, and its pace is accelerating.…

Not even sure this is the right subreddit for this, but it’s something that’s been on my mind every single time I go back home. I honestly think Americans who don’t come from immigrant communities, or who are far removed from their family’s immigrant…

Note, I'm not arguing that we can't reduce carbon emissions. What I'm arguing is that we'll never succeed at altogether ending anthropogenic emissions. The easy part is decarbonizing the electric grid.…

Earth's Resource Depletion Day in 2025 is July 24. Then, when exactly is it this year? submitted by /u/madrid987 [link] [comments]

I’m sure some of you have seen the international headlines or the new UN climate warnings about the heat dome over India right now. The IMD (our weather department) has issued red alerts across my region (the northwest/central belt).…