Breaking Down: Collapse

In this episode we discuss Ray Dalio's Book titled "The Changing World Order"Support the showPlease join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we interview David Skrbina, an author and professor who writes about his anti-technology philosphy. David has written a book with Ted Kazynski (the Unabomber) who holds a similar philosophy.In the interview, we discuss David's philosophy, his vision for the future, as well as his book with Ted Kazynski.You can find his books here: Confronting Technology, Metaphysics of Technology, Technological Slavery. If you'd like to join David's "Anti-Tech Collective", you can do so here.David Skrbina (sker-BEE-na), PhD, was a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Michigan, Dearborn from 2003 to 2018.  He taught a graduate course in Technology and Sustainability at the University of Helsinki in fall, 2020.  His areas of interest include philosophy of mind, eco-philosophy, philosophy of technology, and environmental ethics. Support the showPlease join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Climate change deniers often ask "How can you possibly know what happened 10,000 years ago?". Paleoclimatology is a fascinating field of study that gives us insights into the past, in order to help us model the future.https://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/proxies/paleoclimate.html#:~:text=Paleoclimatology%20is%20the%20study%20of,serve%20as%20useful%20climate%20proxies.https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/1999_schmidt_01/https://web.archive.org/web/20171204232348/http://www.whoi.edu/instruments/viewInstrument.do?id=8087http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/pages/paleoclimate.phphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC_2WXyORGASupport the showPlease join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"The collapse of education is the collapse of the nation" - maybe Nelson Mandela, maybe not. Either way, it's true, and we'll explain it here!Learn more:https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/global-education-at-risk-save-the-children-report/https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/sep/06/lost-generation-education-in-quarter-of-countries-at-risk-of-collapse-study-warnshttps://www.thedailystar.net/lifestyle/perspective/why-collapse-education-the-collapse-nation-1549213https://www.axios.com/teachers-substitutes-principals-ae3caedb-96b2-4a1b-aff3-ffb8c8edc429.htmlhttps://www.educationworld.in/higher-education-system-has-collapsed/https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3927583,00.htmlhttps://www.edweek.org/leadership/how-bad-are-school-staffing-shortages-what-we-learned-by-asking-administrators/2021/10https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/https://www.forbes.com/sites/markcperna/2022/01/04/why-education-is-about-to-reach-a-crisis-of-epic-proportions/?ss=careers&sh=30f5d28878c7&fbclid=IwAR3CF3IaVrsflGZLIjfM0IHxOvdZSP3XC1_1YmTJXJa3UslI3142JHK57tU\https://www.k12dive.com/news/survey-teachers-more-likely-to-report-burnout-than-other-government-employ/607413/Support the showPlease join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this second episode on infectious diseases, we discuss the increasing trend in zoonotic diseases, as well as the potential dangers of prion diseases.Learn More:https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/06/888077232/u-n-predicts-rise-in-diseases-that-jump-from-animals-to-humanshttps://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/statements/preventing-next-pandemic-zoonotic-diseases-and-how-break-chain?_ga=2.94500693.897601755.1649284753-1612452407.1649284753https://www.cdc.gov/prions/index.htmlhttps://thewalrus.ca/new-brunswicks-medical-mystery/#https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1971008068001https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Fz2OUVi_Ahttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848070/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Ke07JzdxYhttps://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/fatal-familial-insomnia/https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cjd/occurrence-transmission.htmlhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41582-021-00488-7https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091231164747.htmhttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/02/21/zombie-deer-disease-what-happened-people-ate-cwd-meat/2926840002/https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/tracking-the-covid-19-economys-effects-on-food-housing-and#:~:text=The%20COVID%2D19%20pandemic%20and,unemployment%20remained%20high%20throughout%202020.https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampesek/2021/02/26/covid-19s-24-trillion-cost-so-far-means-economics-will-never-be-the-same/?sh=333bef544844Support the showPlease join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You've probably heard a considerable amount of conflicting information when it comes to recycling? What's the truth and what's fiction? Is recycling THE answer, is it all bogus, or is it somewhere in between?  In this episode we try and take a nuanced view of the good and bad when it comes to recycling. Support the showPlease join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Communication is key to building relationships and resilient communities. The world is full of differing opinions, lifestyles, choices, etc. These differences are had within the collapse-aware community as much as outside of it. This episode focuses on ways to communicate effectively with those who have opinions that differ from our own.Support the showPlease join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we got to speak with Richard Heinberg about his new book "Power".  Richard Heinberg is Senior Fellow of Post Carbon Institute and author of 14 books on energy and the environment, including Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival, The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, and, with David Fridley, Our Renewable Future. He’s won an award for excellence in energy education and has been published in Nature, Wall Street Journal, and Literary Review. Heinberg’s work is cited as one of the inspirations for the international Transition Towns movement, which seeks to build community resilience ahead of climate change. He and his wife, Janet Barocco, live in an energy-efficient Permaculture home in Santa Rosa, California.You can find the book "Power" here.Support the showPlease join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An interview with one of our listeners, who has a unique perspective as someone with multiple degrees and experience in permaculture and horticulture, building sustainable communities, "teaching hippies how to shoot guns", and is currently using his combat medic experience on  the frontlines in Ukraine.Support the showPlease join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Everyone knows that we should be making efforts to slow and stop fossil fuel emissions, but not as many are aware of the paradox of global dimming, which is that as we stop emitting fossil fuels temperatures may actually rise as a direct result.Support the showPlease join us on Patreon for weekly bonus content and to join our Discord community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.