collapse of the old society

It’s not every day that the Arctic Circle runs hotter than Miami, Florida.

“The entire funding model for Olympic sport is broken. The IOC generates now over US$1.7 billion per year and they refuse to pay athletes who attend the Olympics,”

The model for high level sports is entirely extractive, the IOC gets billions and the athletes risk serious injury for nothing.

When white men in England are dragging Asian men out of cars with shouts of “kill them”, and when white gangs are setting fire to hotels housing families from various countries across the Global South, they are rehearsing the actions they would take during the thing they fantasise about: genocide. When white men attack mosques, they are rehearsing a cultural genocide.

“That feeling when institutions break down, I think, played a role in contributing to the major surge of gun sales and the rise in violence. When you feel like no one is in charge, that’s a recipe for violence to emerge.”

“Until a few years ago, we were discussing whether it would happen at all, as a kind of low-probability, high-impact risk,” Rahmstorf told CNN. “And now it looks a lot more likely than just a few years ago that this will happen. Now people are starting to close in on when it will happen.”

The foods which compose about 60% of the calories of an American diet are likely contributing to dementia.

TLDR: Byzantine government structure and rapid climate changes are pushing small farmers toward failure.

Cross posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/38515005