“The heart of the economic disorder is a world financial system that has gone rogue.”
We are living in a ponzi scheme of credit–fiscal and environmental.
The entire economic system is a ponzi scheme inflated with fiat currency and contemporaneously we have been living beyond our Planetary Boundaries.
How on earth do people expect this house of cards to keep teetering along?
“China manufactured more cement from 2010-13 than the US had produced over the entire 20th century. It could not last and so it is proving.”
All this without considering the collapse of our biosphere which is progressing contemporaneously. Brace for imminent impact. Here is an epic link on our imminent collapse below:
“The world economic order is collapsing and this time there seems no way out“.
I'm an anti-imperialist, environmental activist and blue ocean sailor, who is passionate about the earth and all it's inhabitants without favour. Brace for imminent impact as we bare witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of. To quote President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’. Folks we have lost the Arctic.
Kevin Hester 
Right. Most of us aware of this sad and frightening reality, don’t think about it too much so we can keep the normal play of life and human supremacy going. There are few who can really face this.
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Collapse beckons in almost every way imaginable.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/texas-giant-unstable-sinkholes-are-growing-could-be-verge-catastrophic-collapse-1565636?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=%2Frss%2Fyahoous%2Fnews&yptr=yahoo
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I believe you…
The normal people ‘out there, will be practically unable to function in their usual way… if I pass this on & around…
Nothing can be achieved but terror & insecurity & as there is not a jot ‘we can do to stop this’ what is the point of having millions & millions &. millions of people globally living in terror ?
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I believe in telling young people the truth and knowledge is power.
Most people are oblivious to the coming horror.
If you were in a theatre and it was on fire, would you prefer to know?
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As predicted collapse is well and truly under way.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-19/financial-system-breaking-down-unimaginable-pace
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” Drought has affected about a quarter of India’s 1.3 billion people, according to a submission to the Supreme Court by the central government in April.
Related IPS Articles
A Precarious Fate for Climate Migrants in India
Bangladesh’s Urban Slums Swell with Climate Migrants
Q&A: Crisis and Climate Change Driving Unprecedented Migration
Rural people have especially been forced to “migrate en masse”, according to a recent paper published by a group of NGOs. Evidence of mass migration is obvious in villages that are emptying out. In Uttaranchal, nine per cent of its villages are virtually uninhabited. As per Census 2011, of Uttarakhand’s 16,793 villages, 1,053 have no inhabitants and another 405 have less than 10 residents. The number of such phantom villages has surged particularly after the earthquake and flash floods of 2013.”
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According to professor Tim Garrett and the law of Thermodynamics the collapse of Industrial civilisation is a given.
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FKdTJAMVyBfc&h=RAQGYVdFD
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The Guardian article states “China’s real growth is now below that of the Mao years: the economic crisis will spawn a crisis of legitimacy for the deeply corrupt communist party. Commodity prices have crashed.” The classic response of a dictatorship to such a crisis is to deflect attention by starting a war. That is seriously scary.
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Social Unrest
This is another one of those things that just tends to sneak up gradually. Initially, protests warrant our attention because it’s new and different and out of the ordinary. But as the protests become more and more frequent, people stop caring why the protests are happening. You learn to avoid areas where protests are likely to occur. You start taking an alternate route to work or entering your office building through a back door.
Violence and vandalism begin to accompany the protests and roadblocks become part of your everyday routine. Like rush-hour traffic r, you plan enough time to get to work based on the knowledge that the road may be blocked due to a car or building being set on fire the night before. More people will be armed when in public, tempers will be short, there will be increased knife fights and shootings. This will put a huge strain on emergency services personnel such as police, fire, and EMS.
Streets, yards, and even homes are flooding more often now. In addition to the litter, the metal storm drains and even copper pipes from abandoned homes are being stolen for cash. Before long you start to notice that the historic plaques are missing from city monuments, statues come up missing, even doorknobs, anything metal that can be scrapped is fair game for looters and thieves.
One way to prepare for the next wave of riots is to move out of the city to a more rural location. If you can’t do that right now, then it will help to be intimately familiar with your city roads and other transportation routes. Make sure that you have several planned routes to/from work or your child’s school and any nearby grocery stores. In addition to planning alternative routes for daily travel, you should plan and practice several different bug out routes in case you need to leave your home quickly. Consider not only roads but also railroad tracks, subway tunnels, sewer tunnels, and power line easement roads as possible alternative routes.
http://www.survivalsullivan.com/life-will-like-economic-collapse/
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“nice” blog.
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Total collapse is underway, be patient and you will bare witness .
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/14/humanity-driving-unprecedented-marine-extinction
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Good job Kevin, Thanks for getting this information to us, and for being so frank, about the science and straight on the other relevant issues, David have done nice work on the blog here, these are the good days, brace for tomorrow
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16 ocean passages later you can believe how heart broken these stories make me but I’m riding out the storm on Rakino Island and to keep me sane today I watched this wonderful presentation from Deep Green Resistance and your good self Derrick.
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Kevin, I’m interested in what preparations you’re making personally, apart from living on Rakino of course. One part of me wants to take precautions – we already grow some of our own food, we’re on tank water, we live on Waiheke, but I’m not sure whether to go the whole hog and become survivalists, store seeds, keep stocks of food, etc. Another part of me thinks that if the whole system comes tumbling down then we may as well give in and fade away. What’s your approach to it?
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I have a small store of food that will sustain me and whoever makes it to my place. It will last a short time. I have no ambition to be the last man standing as armageddon unfolds. I’m living in the ‘now’ and have no desire to watch the end of the biosphere as when industrial civilisation collapses we get 450 nuclear meltdowns, 1300 spent fuel pool fires and a multitude of feedback loops mean the planet will quickly lack all habitat for complex life.
There is no happy ending to this predicament.
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Dr Joseph Tainter on collapse;
https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=9oiBYPgBJKQ&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DG0R09YzyuCI%26feature%3Dshare
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http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/201845436/steve-keen-the-coming-crash
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This article omits to include the main reason but they are bugging out;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/183995d2-8d56-4028-9ca5-73394d695e10
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJq3__Rsv6s&feature=share
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Another excellent article on the unfolding collapse;
View at Medium.com
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An optimist:
Is Collapse Coming for Us?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l4N1wjoKAI
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There is so much hopium being published, isn’t there?
sealintheSelkirks
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This is the planet:
India Boils as Temperatures Hit 50C. Is it too Hot to Survive? | Vantage with Palki Sharma
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Here we go….
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Well actually, here I go:
Dangerous Heat Dome Scorches Western US This Week
https://weather.com/forecast/regional/video/dangerous-heat-dome-expands-over-the-west
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I guess I’d best get this AC unit into the downstairs window because, even though there is a solid overcast and a chill wind blowing by at the moment, thermometer on the front porch read 10’C but this week I’m expecting temps to rocket up above 30’C somewhere. Their weather forecasters have been showing a decidedly low accuracy rate on their prognostications the last few years so…yeah, best get ready shouldn’t I?
But I’m can be thankful I’m not in Indian, or SE Asian, Or Western Asian, or Africa, or South America.
Yet. Unfortunately I will be soon, eh?
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It’s really starting to hit the fan and spray all over the country.
‘REVOLUTION IS COMING’: CNN Guest Delivers DIRE WARNING | The Kyle Kulinski Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paKKuKNgx4o
Yes, I agree with this that the US has always been an Oligarchy. Since our founding by white male slave and property owners who were the only people allowed to ‘vote’ for government officials, it’s been Class (and gender and race) War since the beginning.
Now…it becomes a obvious Kleptocracy.
Probably a pretty damned violent one with Trump ‘pardoning’ his traitors from his 2021 Insurrection…
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The migration is under way as well, the great unraveling gains pace by the hour!
America’s Great Climate Migration Has Begun. Here’s What You Need to Know. | Columbia Magazine
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Worldwide Glacier Meltdown Underway
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/28/worldwide-glacier-meltdown-underway/
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I guess Trump is going to have to re-name Glacier National Park soon like he did with the Gulf of Mexico.
Since the glaciers are disappearing a couple hundred miles east of me with rather disturbing levels of melt going on, I’m sure he’ll come up with something very witty and cute since his Gulf of America went over so well, eh? After all, the Fascist Frat Boy is a genius don’t you know?
I recently saw a picture of a place I hiked up in the late 90s there, crampons on my snowboarding boots helping me find purchase to make it to where I could drop over the edge into a perfect fresh powder backcountry run with a couple of the local riders that showed me the way.
That run is now bare rocks…
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Isn’t this interesting?
PRESS RELEASE: Doomsday Clock set at 89 seconds to midnight, closest ever to human extinction
https://thebulletin.org/2025/01/press-release-doomsday-clock-set-at-89-seconds-to-midnight-closest-ever-to-human-extinction/
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It snowed today, slightly over 100mm, but it’s wet and not freezing and fell on extremely deteriorated/evaporated crusty-icy crap from the last snowfall 30 days ago. NO snow all month, in January!
I’m watching drips out the window fall off the roof, and it’s near dark…
Going to be slippery as hell walking down to the mailbox here in a bit..with this exuberant 5 yr old husky dragging me along. The old girl just ambles along with me but I have to haul on the hawser rope leash to keep her from yanking me down!
sealintheSelkirks
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Nah, it’s all a HOAX, folks! Bill Gates says so and you can TRUST him because he’s a billionaire so he’s obviously real smart and knows all about science!
By the way, where are his bunkers being built?
Has BIG OIL hijacked COP30?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDm6rfQ6ck
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Another very grim warning from Hunziker on Antarctica from five days ago that I don’t think I posted yet:
Antarctica’s Red Flag Warning
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/14/antarcticas-red-flag-warning/
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If I had already posted this elsewhere, I apologize. Computer did a hiccup yesterday and I lost a whole bunch of writings I was reading and responding to on a couple of sites. When it re-booted it did NOT show what I was currently doing but deleted back to over a week ago and the list of stuff was all mixed up. I don’t know why it did that.
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