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Elite Infighting Is Driving Collapse - Global Breakdown News Elite overproduction means that a small number of wealthy have become wealthier, while the prosperity of most stagnates or declines

Many regions of the world look to be on shaky ground. Do we know how to restore the balance? For decades now, complexity scientist Peter Turchin has undertaken a systematic analysis of human history, with the aim to understand how societies evolve.

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Incompetence, Fraud, and Corruption - Global Breakdown News What is interesting about the late stagflation phase is how much elite overproduction goes hand-in-hand with fraud, incompetence and corruption.

Peter Turchin and Sergey Nefedov postulated that history has been moving in cycles, which they termed ‘secular cycles’. They identified overpopulation, elite overproduction and state insolvency as the main drivers of the cycles.

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Under Trump, cryptocurrency is set to go mainstream – but that won’t make it any safer for investors | Larisa Yarovaya His easing of regulations could leave many unprotected from financial manipulation, misconduct and bursting bubbles, says Larisa Yarovaya, an associate professor of finance

From the article: Easing cryptocurrency regulations would mark a significant step backward in the pursuit of transparency and accountability in addressing financial misconduct by the wealthy and powerful.

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It’s Official: 9 Out Of 10 Primates Think Private Finance For Nature Is Bollocks - Global Breakdown News The problem with private finance for nature is that conservation does not produce any cash flow that the private sector could use to create a return on investment.

Recent years have brought about a lot of talk about private investment in nature and many new terms have been coined – green bonds, blended finance, payments for ecosystem services etc. – all to magically create new classes of investment products.

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Dodgy Offsets Will Not Prevent Collapse - Global Breakdown News Using carbon credits or biodoversity credits will not reduce emissions or biodiveristy loss. These credit scheme are basically greenwashing by governments.

Governments shy away from proper regulation and anti-growth policies to protect the climate/biodiversity and instead rely on the private sector ‘fixing’ the issues it is causing with yet more markets and dodgy credit schemes.

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And The Show Must Go On - Global Breakdown News istockphoto.com What is the purpose of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland? Author Anand Giridharadas called this meeting “a family reunion for the people who broke t...

What is the purpose of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland? Author Anand Giridharadas called this meeting “a family reunion for the people who broke the world”.

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Insurance Could Be The First Casualty Of Collapse - Global Breakdown News Not having insurance or having cover that is littered with exemptions will severely undermine the relative comfort of Western lifestyles.

Not having insurance or having cover that is littered with exemptions will severely undermine the relative comfort of Western lifestyles. Certainty and peace of mind are major selling points that underwrite our addiction to debt and property.

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Why Are We Still In Denial? - Global Breakdown News It would appear to those concerned about climate change and its catastrophic consequences for human civilisation that ‘we’ are still in denial.

It would appear to those concerned about climate change and its catastrophic consequences that ‘we’ are still in denial. Policies everywhere continue to favour economic growth and securing fossil fuels over any attempts to reduce energy use.

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Don't believe in climate change?

Your insurance company sure does.

And following more and more natural disasters like the LA fires, the more your insurance premium is going to go up.
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What is the Purpose of Announceables? - Global Breakdown News Politicians love ‘announceables’, the positive-sounding statements of ‘new’ policies or initiatives eagerly embraced by the media, but they rarely follow up.

Once a soundbite has been published, it echoes around a country & the world. In the US, 6 media companies own 96% of all US media (all channels); if the companies’ owners are aligned with the announceable message, they don’t question it and it proliferates.

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Rajkumar Keswani – The Journalist Who Foretold One Industrial Disaster Is Killed By Another - Global Breakdown News Rajkumar Keswani, who foretold the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal in 1984, died from COVID complications, the result of another avoidable disaster.

Forty years ago, Rajkumar Keswani wrote his first article warning of the dangers posed by safety lapses at the Union Carbide plant. After nine months of research, triggered by the death of a friend at the plant, his article outlined a catalogue of problems.

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Why Humans Don’t Care About Nature – Part III - Global Breakdown News The aim of the powerful today is not to restore balance with nature. Their aim is to become more distant from nature, more god-like.

Part III of a 3-part series. The aim of the powerful is not to restore balance with nature. Billionaires rather spend their money on dreams of living in space rather than fixing the earth. They build luxury bunkers as ‘fail-safes’ and invest in ‘eternal life’.

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Why Humans Don’t Care About Nature – Part II - Global Breakdown News Progressive Dominion Theology examines the question of the origins of our current guiding ideology starting from the Enlightenment

Part II of a 3-part series. Theology and Climate Change by Paul Tyson examines the origins of our current guiding ideology regarding nature. Sovereignty over nature is so deeply embedded, we don't question if this ideology is useful to our continued existence.

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Why Humans Don’t Care About Nature – Part I - Global Breakdown News Looking at our relentless overexploitation of nature and especially of biodiversity, we have to ask the question: “Why do so few people care about protecting nature?"

This is Part I of a 3-part series. Looking at our relentless overexploitation of nature and especially of biodiversity, we have to ask the question: “How did we get here?”. Why has this not changed in 60 years since the beginning of the conservation movement?

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The super-rich and their secret worlds - Coda Story Author Atossa Araxia Abrahamian’s new book explores the world of offshore zones, charter cities, and freeports where wealth and power transcend laws and national borders

The Hidden Globe by @atossaaraxia.bsky.social is an adventure through all the secret spaces of the wealthy and powerful. @isocockerell.bsky.social sat down with the author to talk freeports, arctic archipelagos, and private justice systems

High Fashion Courts Presidents and Princesses - Global Breakdown News Has the luxury industry’s courting of President Macron been key to his lack of attention to the legal trade in wild species being driver of biodiversity loss?

Instead of implementing stringent, industry-wide controls to protect endangered species, luxury brands woo Presidents, Princesses and other influencers to drive up demand.

It is time these influencers pulled their heads out of the luxury bag.

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Lifestyle, But Not As We Know It. - Global Breakdown News As long as social status and status anxiety remain linked to consumption, we will happily destroy our children’s future to satisfy our aspirations

When it comes to those with a large disposable income, your current consumption choices of non-essential and luxury goods are critical to a more equitable future and a transition to renewables at a manageable scale.

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Great Reads - All Highlight The Need For Good Regulation - Global Breakdown News From shell companies to tax havens, to trusts and commercial-in-confidence laws, all are underlying drivers of unchecked overexploitation driving ecosystem failures and climate collapse.

From shell companies to trusts and commercial-in-confidence laws, all are underlying drivers of unchecked overexploitation, driving ecosystem failures and climate collapse.

GBN suggests some great reads about what is going on in the world.

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Where Will the Collapse Start? - Global Breakdown News Collapse will hit the most vulnerable states first. Vulnerability depends on climate impact, import dependence for food and energy and population growth.

If you are prepared to look, the precursors of collapse are showing. In fragile supply chains that crack from relatively small disruptions. In the lack of capacity in industries, often the result of deliberate destruction to protect monopolies or oligopolies.

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Would You Let Your Home Decay Around You? - Global Breakdown News You wouldn’t live in a home obviously decaying and not do something about it. But this is exactly what we have done, and continue to do.

The presumption of sovereignty, of rulership, over nature is now so deeply embedded in our assumptions of ‘being human’ that we no longer notice its origins and we have only just begun to question its usefulness to our continued existence.

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Fact-Check: Not Just One Bad Apple - Nature Needs More This week saw Nancy González, a Colombian designer whose customers are the likes of Victoria Beckham and whose products have been featured in The Devil Wears Prada, receive an 18-month prison sentence...

Biodiversity loss is not the result of poverty but the desire for huge profits and luxury products. The extinction crisis is unquestionably the result of the vulgarity of this desire, both the desire to supply and the desire to consume.

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Collapse is More Than a Crisis - Global Breakdown News Politicians, economists and bankers struggle to comprehend the difference between a crisis and collapse. A crisis can be rectified, but collapse needs to be prevented.

Given the lack of action to prevent the looming collapse, it seems that those in charge of economic policy such as politicians, economists, bankers and investors struggle to comprehend the difference between a crisis and collapse.

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The Legal Trade In Wild Species: Deadly By Design - Global Breakdown News Everything we see at global events such as CBD CoP16 is just window dressing, there is currently no desire to tackle organised crime, secrecy jurisdictions, the illegal wildlife trade or the unsustain...

The legal trade has never been done in a sustainable way, or a fair and equitable way. Governments worldwide long ago lost control of the trade system. They have allowed black box systems to expand when they should have been driving radical transparency.

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The Leadership – Empathy Gap - Global Breakdown News As people climb the wealth/power ladder, their compassionate feelings towards other people decline, creating a wealth-empathy gap

It has never been more important to understand the implications of the Leadership-Empathy Gap, given research concluded that as people climb the ladder, their compassionate feelings towards other people decline.

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The Irrelevance Of Davos - Global Breakdown News Is it time to call it a day on the WEF and its Davos annual meeting? No longer holding any sway with the 99% who are not benefitting from late-stage neoliberal capitalism, it certainly appears to be i...

Is it time to call it a day on the WEF and its Davos annual meeting? Because if rich people wanted to save the planet, they would have done it by now.

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Who Is Fuelling Australia’s Hoarding Disorder? - Global Breakdown News It seems that people can more easily accept the end of the world rather than the end of consumption.

A recent survey highlighted Australians spend an average of AU$163 per month on self-storage. The population’s addiction to consumption and hoarding means that around 13% of people surveyed said they use self-storage units to hide their purchases from others.

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Our Dopamine Addiction Is Killing The Planet - Global Breakdown News How Can We Detox? Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that sends signals from one neuron to another. Whatever your drug of choice, chocolate, nicotine, amphetamines, social media, power or shopping, dopami...

For those lucky enough to live in wealthy countries, where our basic survival needs are met, research has found that overabundance is changing the pleasure-pain equation and keeping us craving evermore.

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Basic Income vs. Sustainable Use - Global Breakdown News A basis income linked to conservation is a valid alternative to the sustainable use model and must be explored as an option.

WB data says indigenous people make up 6% of world population, who protect 80% of biodiversity. 6% of 8 billion is 480 million. If each person is paid a BI of US$100/month, this would total US$577billion pa. This can be financed with a 2% levy on global trade.
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Show Me The Money - Global Breakdown News istockphoto.com The chasm between aspiration and reality comes down to the stalemate on money at CoP 16. A 2020 publication, Financing Nature: Closing the Global Biodiversity Financing Gap, estimated ...

The chasm between aspiration and reality comes down to money. So far, the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund has received only US$163 million to implement the KMGBF. This is just US$13 million more than the price of 1 luxury apartment in Manhattan.

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