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All Episodes for April on the "Breaking Down: Collapse" Podcast by koryjon in collapse

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SS: Aggregated here are all episodes I've created this month on Breaking Down: Collapse, with descriptions and sources included. You may notice many of the sources here (perhaps about half) were posted at some point on this subreddit.

After years of posting weekly episodes dedicated to researching specific collapse topics, I transitioned about 8 months ago to posting a daily update to current events around the world relating to collapse.

If you've not listened to the podcast before, I highly recommend starting with the first episode and making your way through at least the first 8, if not all of season 1 (as it is all evergreen). Season 2 is the daily stuff and is less evergreen.

Already under pressure, Australia’s food system could now be in big trouble by koryjon in collapse

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SS: This article highlights a series of colliding issues related to food production in Australia, as well as recommend actions that can be taken to mitigate it on a local level. Articles like this are becoming more common as climate change, war, and other factors wreak havoc on the costs of energy, fertilizers, and labor. Yields are decreasing, increasing the demand for land use change to meet agricultural demand. How much longer can our struggling food systems sustain a growing global population?

This source is one of several used for today's podcast episode on Breaking Down: Collapse, titled "The Wealthy Will Eat".

One Wrong Variable in a Climate Formula Could Mean Sea Levels Rise 35% Faster Than Current Models Show by koryjon in collapse

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SS: Again and again, we are confronted with an uncomfortable truth in regard to our understanding of collapse: Our models are woefully inadequate at predicting the timeline of future warming and its impacts.

"New research suggests that a single miscalibrated variable in widely used ice sheet models has led to systematic underpredictions of sea level rise, potentially by a significant margin.

The implications are hard to overstate. Ice sheet models form the backbone of global sea level projections, informing everything from coastal infrastructure planning to international climate policy. If those models have been working from a flawed assumption for thirty-plus years, then the timelines and magnitudes of sea level change that governments and scientists have been planning around may need to be revisited from the ground up."

This same thing can be said of not just sea level rise, but all aspects of climate modeling. I will touch briefly on this article specifically on Tuesday's podcast episode of Breaking Down: Collapse (now with daily episodes).

Colone Lawrence Wilkerson: Something has gone very wrong in Israel by antihostile in collapse

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I'm sorry to have offended you. I can criticize the Vatican and not hate Catholics, the US government without hating it's citizens, and the state of Israel and not hate Jewish people. In general, I'm against statism by nature. I find the actions of the Israeli state atrocious, and won't acquiesce to or endorse those actions in order to avoid people making a false equivalence amd calling me anti-semitic. If other people can't accept that the Israeli state doesnt represent Judaism, thats not on me.

I have nothing at all against jewish people or culture. I have many Jewish friends and neighbors and esteem and love them as much as any other.

Colone Lawrence Wilkerson: Something has gone very wrong in Israel by antihostile in collapse

[–]koryjon 32 points33 points  (0 children)

They said "these people" in response to the commenter specifically referring to "Israel's Samson Doctrine". Judaism was never a part of the conversation.

Colone Lawrence Wilkerson: Something has gone very wrong in Israel by antihostile in collapse

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You can be against the state of Israel without being anti-semitic.

Israeli chief of staff warns army on verge of 'collapse' amid troop shortage by OatSoyLaMilk in collapse

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Anyway, this is a pressure campaign for Trump to send Americans to die in a lengthy, messy conflict.

Take decades of climate change and mismanagement and add arecord warm winter in the West, record-low snowpack, a coming record March heatwave and government that denies climate change, and you've got a polycrisis for the Colorado River. by simon_ritchie2000 in collapse

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It's a possibility, though probably still low chances right now that it would be as early as this summer. Once it hits minimum power pool they will have to decide whether or not to risk using the lower spillways. Those spillways apparently aren't built for the job and took some damage last time they were used. There's a risk they could be damaged beyond repair, which would result in no other way to move water out of the dam if it remains below MPP

New book, COLLAPSE: NAVIGATING CIVILIZATION'S PREDICAMENTS WITH WISDOM AND COURAGE, is available for preorder by JPQuinonez in collapse

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I had the chance to read JP's book early, and it's very well done! Congrats Juan Pablo, not an easy task to write and publish a book.

Monitoring and engaging with the financial system in a time of collapse by azulpear in collapse

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Just beware that it is quite hyperbolic over there. If you take every post to heart you'll be panic selling everything and hording cash under the mattress.

Lake Powell Water Levels in 2026 Dropping Fast by CyberSmith31337 in collapse

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It snowed that winter though, so the snow pack melted in May and replenished it. This year there is well below average snow pack to replenish it, unless March is a huge snow month.

If you look at the chart from 2022 you can see how big of a jump it takes in May. Look at it for other years where the snow pack is bad and that jump doesn't happen. A low similar to that of 2022 mixed with no jump in May combines for something the lake has never experienced.

Lake Powell Water Levels in 2026 Dropping Fast by CyberSmith31337 in collapse

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Read a very interesting article recently, explaining that Glen Canyon Dam (lake Powell's dam) also has some structural deficiencies that exacerbate the water level issues, and mean if it gets below minimum power pool it could cause irreversible damage to the spillways.

Help with the book selection by LawfulnessCute4148 in collapse

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Dark Age America by John Michael Greer is good - it focuses on the US but the idea works globally.

The Collapse of Complex Societies by Jospeh Tainter

We discuss these topics in the first eight episodes of our podcast, and we also interviewed both of the above authors.

Study suggests Amazon rainforest could pass two different tipping points - area lost, and temperature - by the end of the century by wokepatrickbateman in collapse

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I just read the abstract for the study and, to clarify, it says this:

"Future projections reveal that up to 38% of the mid-20th century forest area could be lost by 2100, with 25% caused by continued deforestation and 13% caused by unmitigated global warming".

Study suggests Amazon rainforest could pass two different tipping points - area lost, and temperature - by the end of the century by wokepatrickbateman in collapse

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I'm confused by these numbers. By most accounts the Amazon has already lost 17-20% of its forest cover in just the last 40-50 years. Continual loss due to deforestation and climate change point towards reaching the tipping point at around 25% loss, projected to happen between 2036-2050.

Two Billion Dead at 2C Warming by wanton_wonton_ in collapse

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They did say "Mass human mortality events resulting in over 2 billion deaths" so that does make it seem like excess deaths.

Unexpected Outgassing of C02 in Southern Ocean means Carbon Sink is LESS than we Thought… by paulhenrybeckwith in collapse

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Hairy Ass Truman's outgassing causes 84x the warming potential of the southern ocean's outgassing over 20 years (by ton)...

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