{"id":66261,"date":"2023-11-30T12:56:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66261"},"modified":"2023-11-30T12:56:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:56:46","slug":"the-first-signs-of-civilizations-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66261","title":{"rendered":"The First Signs of Civilization&#8217;s Collapse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<div class=\"post-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guymcpherson.substack.com\/p\/first-signs-of-civilizations-collapse?r=r3w0&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web\">The First Signs of Civilization&#8217;s Collapse?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"subtitle\"><strong>New Video Link! Sorry!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"available-content\">\n<div class=\"body markup\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\"youtube2-JQbmtd49GNs\" class=\"youtube-wrap\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;JQbmtd49GNs&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"Youtube2ToDOM\">\n<div class=\"youtube-inner\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JQbmtd49GNs?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0\" width=\"728\" height=\"409\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Draft script<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>From\u00a0<em>Tom Dispatch<\/em>\u00a0on 17 August 2023 comes a story headlined\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/tomdispatch.com\/collapse-2-0\/\" rel=\"\">Michael Klare, A World on the Edge of \u2026 Collapse?<\/a><\/em>\u00a0The article is short, and it introduces a much longer article by Michael Klare, professor emeritus of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College. I\u2019ll read the complete introductory article by\u00a0<em>Tom Dispatch<\/em> editor Tom Engelhardt:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can hardly turn on the TV news or go online these days without seeing\u2026 well, Donald Trump, of course, and his extreme version of American politics. Every indictment of him only seems to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/08\/us\/politics\/trump-indictments-2024-campaign.html\" rel=\"\">add<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to his strength in what\u2019s no longer the Republican but the Trumpublican Party. Still, speaking of extremism (and disasters), I wouldn\u2019t put him at the top of the list. This summer has offered us a scorchingly extreme version of climate change and a planet being burned, flooded, and melted in ever more unexpected and previously unimagined ways. Records are being\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/news\/its-official-july-2021-was-earths-hottest-month-on-record\" rel=\"\">set regularly<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0with the year itself all too likely to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2023\/08\/08\/2023-is-track-be-hottest-year-record\/\" rel=\"\">take its place<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0as the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/climate\/earth-hottest-years.html\" rel=\"\">hottest ever<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 until, that is, next year on a planet where the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/climate\/earth-hottest-years.html\" rel=\"\">last eight years<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0have been the warmest in recorded history.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you happen to live on an island, here\u2019s a little advice: get off it fast! Islands are going up in flames.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/europe\/italian-firefighters-battle-wildfires-on-island-of-sardinia\/2962653\" rel=\"\">Sardinia<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/news\/high-winds-leave-cyprus-on-alert-after-year-s-biggest-wildfire-c9f60a51\" rel=\"\">Cyprus<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in the Mediterranean are now scorching messes and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/09\/us\/hurricane-dora-hawaii-wildfires.html\" rel=\"\">Hawaii\u2019s Maui<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0only recently became a first-class nightmare in which some residents had to plunge into the ocean to escape the flames. And if southern Europe, seemingly in an\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-08-01\/europe-braces-for-next-heat-blitz-as-summer-lull-looks-fleeting#xj4y7vzkg\" rel=\"\">almost endless heatwave<\/a><\/strong>, continues to burn, northern Europe has been experiencing startlingly torrential rains and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/train-derails-roads-flood-sweden-norway-hit-by-torrential-rain-2023-08-07\/\" rel=\"\">flooding<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Signs of Civilization&#8217;s Collapse? New Video Link! Sorry! Draft script: From\u00a0Tom Dispatch\u00a0on 17 August 2023 comes a story headlined\u00a0Michael Klare, A World on the Edge of \u2026 Collapse?\u00a0The article is short, and it introduces a much longer article by Michael Klare, professor emeritus of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College. 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