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This Is What Collapse Looks Like<\/h3>\n
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Every day now, the news is replete with evidence that, everywhere, things are falling apart faster and faster, and nothing of consequence is being, or can be, done about it. Every civilization collapses, but the collapse of our current global industrial civilization is occurring at a breathtaking and accelerating pace.<\/p>\n

Today, the city of Philadelphia announced that it has given up trying to deal with its share of the US\u2019s epidemic of mass shootings, and has instead\u00a0outsourced its handling of the horrific trauma these mass murders create to a private consulting firm<\/a>. Sure to fix the problem, no? The country\u2019s \u2018supreme\u2019 court helped out by ruling that\u00a0the banning of \u2018bump stocks\u2019, devices that turn ordinary guns into rapid-fire machine guns, was unconstitutional<\/a>. When a hastily-prepared new law was proposed outlawing them, Congress blocked it.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Louisiana, arguably the country\u2019s most horrifically polluted and dysfunctional state, has its priorities straight: It\u2019s\u00a0mandating that the Christian \u201cten commandments\u201d be posted in every schoolroom in the state<\/a>. Nothing in those rules about mega-pollution, so why not? Honour thy father and mother, \u2019cause they\u2019re the ones who bought you the guns with the bump stocks. It\u2019ll surely make God real happy to see when the Rapture comes.<\/p>\n

And in Europe, the\u00a0bumbling governments of both the UK and France have called snap elections they\u2019re bound to lose<\/a>, so out of touch are they with the electorate that they think all they have to do is convince voters that the current economic collapse in their countries isn\u2019t\u00a0their<\/em>\u00a0fault.<\/p>\n

And so it goes. I could respond to most of each day\u2019s top news items these days (including the celebrity gossip) by just reciting the title of this post.<\/p>\n

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This Is What Collapse Looks Like Every day now, the news is replete with evidence that, everywhere, things are falling apart faster and faster, and nothing of consequence is being, or can be, done about it. Every civilization collapses, but the collapse of our current global industrial civilization is occurring at a breathtaking and accelerating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5,6,7],"tags":[138,150,32260,32259],"class_list":["post-68715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-civilisation","tag-collapse","tag-dave-pollard","tag-how-to-save-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68716,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68715\/revisions\/68716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}