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This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment.

Collapse, in this context, refers to the significant loss of an established level or complexity towards a much simpler state. It can occur differently within many areas, orderly or chaotically, and be willing or unwilling. It does not necessarily imply human extinction or a singular, global event. Although, the longer the duration, the more it resembles a ‘decline’ instead of collapse.

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Scientists Raise Alarm Over Risk of 'Synchronized' Global Crop Failures (www.vice.com)

submitted 1 year ago by kinther to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have always said that a bad crop year will wake up many to the problems we face as a civilization. We spend so much time in the inner world of the internet and computers that we have forgotten the outer world we exist in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

@kinther @doom_and_gloom

Heh, city-dwellers have generally been oblivious to how food gets on their tables for much, much longer than the public had the internet.

When I was a kid in the 70s, it was a commonplace in calls to modernize education to decry "memorizing countries' imports and exports" as an archaic waste of time. And there was none of that in the enlightened education I received.

Of course now I find myself endlessly fascinated by facts like "Australia is/was the biggest seller of coal to China" and "Ukraine provides a third of the wheat bought by African countries".