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Grocery Store Violence Over Scarcity
- A tense supermarket scene shows everyday collapse: fights over coffee and shortages in aisles.
- Victor Lee Tucker Jr. returned with a gun and murdered an employee over a mask dispute, illustrating ordinary violence escalation.
Pandemic Revealed Systemic Fragility
- The pandemic revealed the fragility of modern infrastructure and amplified existing weaknesses.
- Small shocks cascade through chaotic supply chains to create large, unpredictable failures.
Climate Tipping Accelerates Warming
- Climate tipping could trigger abrupt, irreversible shifts that models previously underestimated.
- Feedbacks like thawing permafrost and weaker forests accelerate warming and push the system toward dangerous thresholds.