Breaking Down: Collapse

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".

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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. 

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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?

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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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What is the future of ownership? Is it "The Great Reset" or "Feudalism 2.0"? In this episode we look into the direction we're headed, and the existing theories commonly shared around.

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8 predictions for the world in 2030 - YouTube

The Great Reset | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)

Fact check: The World Economic Forum does not have a stated goal to have people own nothing by 2030 | Reuters

Who does the World Economic Forum really represent? | Transnational Institute (tni.org)

U.S. Wage Growth Fails To Keep Up With Rising Prices For 17 Consecutive Months (forbes.com)

America is Becoming a Nation of Renters | 37th Parallel (37parallel.com)

Housing affordability collapses at fastest clip on record (axios.com)

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

https://www.worldhistory.org/Feudalism/

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/01/our-neo-feudal-future

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Kellan runs through several news stories of the week and their relation to collapse.

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Déjà coup: How election lies sparked the violent attack on Brazil's government | CNN Business

Seattle Schools Sue Big Tech Over Youth Mental Health Crisis - Bloomberg

Cheddar News on LinkedIn: #poop

Elon Musk Has Officially Lost More Of His Own Money Than Anyone In History (buzzfeednews.com)

Climate-fueled disasters cost U.S. $165 billion in 2022 : NPR

India set to overtake China as world's most populous country in next 3 months: UN report | Fox News

Nisha Mehta, MD on LinkedIn: The Coming Collapse of the U.S. Health Care System

‘Terrifying prospect’: Utah’s Great Salt Lake could disappear in 5 years without drastic water conservation – ICMGLT

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This week we talk about the potentially dark future of AI and what is known as the "singularity", were it able to break the constraints that currently hold it back.

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The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1 - Wait But Why
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 2 - Wait But Why

World’s most powerful AI chatbot ChatGPT will soon ‘look like a boring toy’ says OpenAI boss | The Independent

A new experiment: Does AI really know cats or dogs -- or anything? | ZDNET

1.1 quintillion operations per second: US has world’s fastest supercomputer | Ars Technica

When will singularity happen? 1700 expert opinions of AGI [2023] (aimultiple.com)

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There is a lot of hype, especially recently, around the future of AI. The fact is that AI is present now in our world, for both positive and negative. In this episode we talk about the current reality and near-term expectations of AI, and how it relates to collapse. From surveillance and policing to job and culture loss to deepfakes, AI is helping drive us towards a dystopian future.

Learn More:

COVID restrictions in India are being enforced by artificial intelligence and facial recognition | Fortune

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors Grants Police More Surveillance Powers | Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org)

SFPD’s killer robots are off the table for now (sfbayview.com)

Actor Goes Viral With Deepfake Star Impressions—How Many Can You Name? (newsweek.com)

How ChatGPT actually works (assemblyai.com)

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/what-is-chatgpt/473664/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/technology/personaltech/how-to-use-chatgpt-ethically.html

https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-replacing-jobs-creating-jobs

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleystahl/2022/05/03/the-rise-of-artificial-intelligence-will-robots-actually-replace-people/?sh=5a88c4403299

https://www.saviom.com/blog/12-jobs-that-robots-ai-will-replace-in-the-future-and-12-that-wont/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/technology/ai-artificial-intelligence-artists.html

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/artstation-artists-stage-mass-protest-against-ai-generated-artwork/

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