It's pay to play! Apparently it's legal to pay the government to pass (or not pass) desired legislation. This episode focuses on how the wealthy corporations and individuals control the system.

Learn More:

Is Lobbying Good or Bad? | RepresentUs

America’s lobbying addiction (brookings.edu)

Lobbying: How the Wealthy and Business Get Their Way | Second Rate Democracy

Corruption is Legal in America - YouTube

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I bet you didn't know that 10% of all emissions come from the fashion industry. Or that 75 million people are employed in manufacturing plants for the fashion industry, with only 2% of them being paid a living wage.

This episode highlights these and many other global issues with fast fashion.

Learn More:

What Is Fast Fashion—and Why Is It a Problem? (treehugger.com)

The 10 Essential Fast Fashion Statistics | Earth.Org

The Fashion Industry Waste Is Drastically Contributing To Climate Change (pirg.org)

10 Concerning Fast Fashion Waste Statistics | Earth.Org

How Much Do Our Wardrobes Cost to the Environment? (worldbank.org)

Fast Fashion Getting Faster: A Look at the Unethical Labor Practices Sustaining a Growing Industry | International Law and Policy Brief (gwu.edu)

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Today's youth are tomorrow's leaders. How do young adults feel about the future, and how does it compare to their elders? What do they feel their role is in the future of our world? Let's break it down!

Learn More:

Young People's Voices on Climate Anxiety, Government Betrayal and Moral Injury: A Global Phenomenon by Elizabeth Marks, Caroline Hickman, Panu Pihkala, Susan Clayton, Eric R. Lewandowski, Elouise E. Mayall, Britt Wray, Catriona Mellor, Lise van Susteren :: SSRN

Trust in government by generation U.S. 2021 | Statista

World’s Youth Are Surprisingly Optimistic, UN Study Finds – Mother Jones

Axios|Momentive Poll: Capitalism and Socialism (surveymonkey.com)

America's continued move toward socialism (axios.com)

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The impacts of climate change dramatically influence and are influenced by cyclical weather patterns.  Future El Niño cycles have major implications on society at large.

Learn More:

Stronger El Niño events may speed up irreversible melting of Antarctic ice, research finds | El Niño southern oscillation | The Guardian

What does the return of El Nino mean for the planet – and you? | The Straits Times

The Global Impacts of El Niño | Water Resources Research Center | The University of Arizona

United States El Niño Impacts | NOAA Climate.gov

El Niño (nationalgeographic.org)

Four possible consequences of El Niño returning in 2023 (phys.org)

Arctic sea ice loss to increase strong El Niño events linked to extreme weather: Study (mongabay.com)

El Niño and La Niña Years and Intensities (ggweather.com)

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There's been much talk lately about the threat of H5N1 (Avian Influenza). In this episode we talk about what there is (and isn't) to fear about the virus, as well as we take a look at David Quammen's book "Spillover".

Learn More: 

An Expert Says Why H5N1 Bird Flu Is Here to Stay (insider.com)
7 Reasons Diseases Are Spreading Faster These Days (insider.com)
Emergence and Evolution of H5N1 Bird Flu | Avian Influenza (Flu) (cdc.gov)
Airborne Transmission of Influenza A/H5N1 Virus Between Ferrets - PMC (nih.gov)
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic: Quammen, David: 9780393066807: Amazon.com: Books

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Can technology save us? Nah. Can it help us, though? Sure! Here's an example of a great technology with a lot of potential... but we don't think it answers all of life's problems. 

Learn More:

Heat Pumps Can Lower Home Emissions, but Not Everywhere - Eos

Heat Pumps Will Change Everything About Climate Change—and Not Enough (foreignpolicy.com)

How Do Heat Pumps Work to Be the Ultimate Climate Techno-Fix? - Bloomberg

Narendra Modi: India poised for five-fold rise in gas consumption | Upstream Online

The Inflation Reduction Act offers subsidies for heat pumps — will US homeowners warm to them? (yahoo.com)

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How we cope with the knowledge of the future is deeply personal. In this episode we touch on 2 ancient Eastern philosophies that many use as a source of maintaining a healthy mental attitude.

Learn More:

Understanding Wuwei: The Daoist Art of Going With the Flow - YouTube

Tao of Yoda: Based Upon the Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu: Kreger, D. W., Patacsil, Jamielly: 9780983309925: Amazon.com: Books

Daoism: The Basics - YouTube

Taoist philosophy

What is Daoism? - YouTube

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/buddhism

https://www.history.com/topics/religion/buddhism

https://tricycle.org/magazine/noble-eightfold-path/

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It's no secret that capitalism doesn't take kindly to those caught in the feedback loop of homelessness. How will collapse affect homelessness, and how will homelessness affect collapse?

Learn More:

How a hard-working, middle-class family spiraled into homelessness - The Boston Globe (archive.ph)

State of Homelessness: 2022 Edition - National Alliance to End Homelessness

List of sovereign states by homeless population - Wikipedia

The Homeless-Poor and the COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Policy of Government: Rethinking the Plight of Homelessness in Nigeria - Cletus O. Obasi, Christopher M. Anierobi, 2021 (sagepub.com)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/15/briefing/homelessness-america-housing-crisis.html

https://www.security.org/resources/homeless-statistics/

https://finance.yahoo.com/photos/10-countries-with-maximum-homeless-people-how-many-homeless-in-india-131259042/20-may-2020-berlin-homeless-123811016.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE8DpQStyhQ1N60vQOQC4L98ojUCWB-MxV0yyeA---J-YD1oeCBOzMYXibuEEtcbjGk_b2G2OTq7NnWEOScsBmSXHOV7PQKUSYmIj-fC7Vksk8S5SG6HfBD-S5KLgM1pm67QUuKYj_H1u9F8Y1jha4J3bjcgX0U7pDdM4NxjCjHi

https://therealdeal.com/2022/12/04/housing-affordability-is-worst-on-record-data-shows/

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This week we discuss journalist and author Chris Hedges and his book "America, The Farewell Tour.

Learn More:

America: The Farewell Tour | Book by Chris Hedges | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster (simonandschuster.com)

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Consumer and national debts are growing exponentially.  The unsustainable nature in which we borrow money in order to maintain our economic system is the perfect definition of a bubble. But when will it burst and what will it look like?

Learn More:

Americans’ household debt surpasses $16T for first time | The Hill

Average American Debt: An Overview | First Republic Bank

Household debt soars at fastest pace in 15 years as credit card use surges, Fed report says (cnbc.com)

17 Canadian Household Debt Statistics [Updated in 2022] (reviewlution.ca)

Canada Households Credit Market Debt to Disposable Income - 2022 Data - 2023 Forecast (tradingeconomics.com)

Debt owned by U.S. households by type 2022 | Statista

Car Owners Strain as More Loan Payments Soar to $1,000 - Bloomberg

The U.S. Consumer Debt Crisis

What is Behind America's Credit Card Debt Crisis? - InvestorsObserver

Consumer Debt Isn’t Stressing Banks — Yet - The Washington Post

US Economic Collapse: What Would Happen? (thebalancemoney.com)

Recession could be U.S. banks’ guilty pleasure | Reuters

Will the Banks Collapse? - The Atlantic

Consumer debt is at an all-time high. Should banks be worried? | American Banker

https://www.truthinaccounting.org/about/our_national_debt?gclid=Cj0KCQiA_P6dBhD1ARIsAAGI7HAGTpK7ZXOnvyAnoyAAysPmvwcwk9qjEl5kA3VyHGzkFfaDwu_67ekaAs4wEALw_wcB

https://www.usdebtclock.org/

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-debt/

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-debt/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/us/politics/debt-ceiling-economy-congress.html

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