Breaking Down: Collapse

Kory and Kellan discuss the rapid increase in plastic pollution and it's potential affects on biodiversity and human health.

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Kellan and Kory break down two important factors of disease: antibiotic resistance and ancient microbes being released from permafrost. 

Learn More:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/coming-antibiotic-resistance-pandemic-could-make-covid-look-like-flu/276526/

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/new-report-by-world-animal-protection-documents-antibiotic-resistance-in-the-environment-near-us-factory-farms-1030319190

About Antibiotic Resistance
https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/about.html#:~:text=Antibiotic%20resistance%20happens%20when%20germs,killed%20and%20continue%20to%20grow.

Antibiotic Resistance Threatens Modern Medicine
https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/pdf/threats-report/Threat-Modern-Medicine-508.pdf

Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/antibiotic-resistant-bacteria

Biggest Threats and Data
https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/biggest-threats.html

WHO Article: “New Report Calls for Urgent Action to Avert Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis”
https://www.who.int/news/item/29-04-2019-new-report-calls-for-urgent-action-to-avert-antimicrobial-resistance-crisis

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Kellan and Kory discuss the ways in which our soil is being degraded and the potential consequences of reaching a peak in soil availability.

Learn More:

“Why Soil Is Disappearing from Farms”
https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/why-soil-is-disappearing-from-farms/

Soil loss in Midwest farms
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/967376880/new-evidence-shows-fertile-soil-gone-from-midwestern-farms

Phosphorus crisis
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/farmers-are-facing-a-phosphorus-crisis-the-solution-starts-with-soil

Farm Tilling
https://www.sterlinglandcompany.com/farm-tilling-till-versus-no-till/#:~:text=Historically%2C%20farmers%20have%20tilled%20their,easier%20to%20plant%20new%20seeds.&text=Tilling%20breaks%20apart%20the%20established,much%20easier%20to%20control%20them.

Haber-Bosch Process
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process

Peak Phosphorus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_phosphorus#:~:text=According%20to%20some%20researchers%2C%20Earth's,for%20several%20hundreds%20of%20years.

Soil Salinity
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-96190-3_2

Erosion and Global Warming
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-unep-soil/soil-erosion-increasing-global-warming-threat-unep-idUSTRE81C13J20120213

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Kellan and Kory discuss the oft-disputed question of what's to blame for collapse: are there too many people, or are we simply consuming too much?

Population Balance - Podcast/website for ethical ways to reduce overpopulation/overconsumption.

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Kory and Kellan discuss the role of nuclear fission in our energy production and consumption, and whether or not fission provides an answer to our future energy shortages.

Learn More:

What is nuclear fission?
https://www.britannica.com/science/nuclear-fission/Fission-theory

Nuclear fission explainer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pY5HeZpNr8

Nuclear power in France
https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Macron-stresses-importance-of-nuclear-energy-for-F#:~:text=According%20to%20World%20Nuclear%20Association,billion%20per%20year%20from%20this.

Pros and Cons of nuclear
https://www.power-technology.com/features/nuclear-power-pros-cons/

Power Plant Construction Costs
https://proest.com/construction/cost-estimates/power-plants/#:~:text=Natural%20gas%20power%20plant%20construction,on%20the%20total%20construction%20costs.

Why nuclear is not the answer
https://www.leonardodicaprio.org/the-7-reasons-why-nuclear-energy-is-not-the-answer-to-solve-climate-change/#:~:text=In%20addition%2C%20it%20creates%20risk,need%20natural%20gas%20for%20backup.

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Kory and Kellan discuss the increasingly important role that firearms play as civil unrest, political tensions, and the delegitimacy of governments increase worldwide.

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Mass Shootings 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2020#:~:text=There%20were%20614%20mass%20shootings,there%20were%20180%20more%20incidents.

Mass Shootings 2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2021

Gun Violence Over Time
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/23/2020-shootings/

Deaths by Car Accidents 2020
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2021/03/05/pandemic-travel-traffic-deaths-up-8-2020-despite-driving-less/4590942001/#:~:text=The%20nonprofit%20National%20Safety%20Council,first%20jump%20in%20four%20years.

Gun Purchases 2020
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2021/02/10/this-is-how-many-guns-were-sold-in-all-50-states/43371461/

Guns in the US
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
https://news.gallup.com/poll/264932/percentage-americans-own-guns.aspx
https://www.statista.com/statistics/186935/deaths-by-firearm-related-injuries-in-the-us-since-1970/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/249740/percentage-of-households-in-the-united-states-owning-a-firearm/
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pictures/gun-ownership-rates-by-state/

Gun Laws
https://youtu.be/pXnycRj1KWs

Mapping Police Violence
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

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Perhaps one of the least talked about (but one of the most important) aspects of ecological and environmental collapse: our oceans. From ocean acidification and dead zones to rising temperatures and overfishing, there are multiple threats to marine life. The delicate ocean ecosystems are dissolving before our eyes, with unprecedented consequences to our societies.

Dead Zones
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/deadzone.html

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/dead-zones-in-our-oceans-have-increased-dramatically-since-1950-and-we-re-to-blame/

Ocean Acidification
https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-coasts/ocean-acidification#:~:text=The%20ocean%20absorbs%20about%2030,by%20the%20ocean%20also%20increases

https://www.epa.gov/ocean-acidification/understanding-science-ocean-and-coastal-acidification#:~:text=Today%2C%20average%20ocean%20pH%20is,ten%2Dfold%20increase%20in%20acidity

Pteropod Shell Dissolution
https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo1635

Threats to Phytoplankton
https://psmag.com/environment/global-warming-is-putting-phytoplankton-in-danger

Oceanic c02 Absorption
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/03/oceans-do-us-a-huge-service-by-absorbing-nearly-a-third-of-global-co2-emissions-but-at-what-cost#:~:text=So%20far%2C%20the%20researchers%20found,as%20atmospheric%20levels%20have%20increased.&text=%22At%20some%20point%20the%20ability,scientist%20Jeremy%20Mathis%20told%20Mashable

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Not every aspect of collapse has to be negative.  In this episode Kory and Kellan discuss the potential positives to collapse, as a way to see the best in the worst of situations.

Links:

How Trauma can Change you for the Better:
https://time.com/3967885/how-trauma-can-change-you-for-the-better/

The positive Legacy of Trauma:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8827649/

What Good can Come of Trauma?
https://www.research.va.gov/currents/1215-4.cfm

Tribe - Sebastian Junger
http://www.sebastianjunger.com/tribe-by-sebastian-junger

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In this episode, Kellan and Kory discuss the impact and the implications of the events of the last 18 months. From record wildfires and hurricanes to civil unrest, and economic volatility to global pandemics, it's clear that we are witnessing collapse all around us.

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In this episode Kory and Kellan review the new book by Bill Gates "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" through an in-depth discussion of the validity of the points made and the credibility of the author.

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