The “news” of the past 48 hours has been dominated by discussions of inverted yield curves and a crashing stock market leading to the obvious question as to whether we have entered a collapse phase in the world economy or not. Most certainly, the moves of the City of London to concoct the myth that forced austerity and genocide measures are necessary to support life itself in the coming period, based on apocalyptic claims about climate change, demonstrates their preparation for this eventuality.