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Civilization and the planet

The David McWilliams Podcast

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The Mayan Collapse

The Mayan collapse was a great moment in history and the world changes. But for everybody who survived that, of which everybody in Western Europe is a descendant today, life went on. The fact that we are in a quite a precarious state right now is significant. And although climate change is the obvious sort of big red flag, it's about environmental degradation on lots of different levels. All of us have microplastics in our bloodstreams. We ingesting breathing in the air around us. Your risk from air pollution is about 90 times that of the threat of terrorism or war. Life expectancy for every man, woman and child is one and a half years lower than it would be if the

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