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Soundtrack to the fall of capitalism

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Is this the end of civilisation? We could take a different path | George Monbiot

Environmental breakdown, coupled with the self-destructive behaviour of governments, has set us on a road to ruin. And we’re blocking off all means of escape, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers

Three-quarters of flying insects in nature reserves across Germany have vanished in 25 years, with serious implications for all life on Earth, scientists say

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How Western civilisation could collapse

Some possible precipitating factors are already in place. How the West reacts to them will determine the world’s future.

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The super rich are preparing for the end of the world

“You just need so many things to actually ride out the apocalypse,” says former Facebook product manager Antonio García Martínez.

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Wolfgang Streeck: ‘Look at London – it’s a second Rome. This is what an empire looks like’

The political economist on Trump’s election, why we should be happy about Brexit and the crises facing western democracy

This isn’t the violent overthrow envisaged by Marx and Engels. In The Communist Manifesto, they argued that capitalism’s “gravediggers” would be the proletariat. Nearly 170 years later, Streeck is predicting that the capitalists will be their own gravediggers, through having destroyed the workers and the dissidents they needed to maintain the system. What comes next is not some better replacement but is more akin to the centuries-long rotting away of the Roman empire.

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Harsh noise soundtrack for the last days of capitalism.

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“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.” - James Madison. America is a ticking time bomb. All that remains to be seen is who - or what - will set fire to the fuse.

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A couple of articles worth reading...

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/mar/18/fully-automated-luxury-communism-robots-employment

https://www.vice.com/read/luxury-communism-933

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A scientific model has suggested that society will collapse in less than three decades due to catastrophic food shortages if policies do not change.

"We ran the model forward to the year 2040, along a business-as-usual trajectory based on ‘do-nothing’ trends — that is, without any feedback loops that would change the underlying trend. "The results show that based on plausible climate trends, and a total failure to change course, the global food supply system would face catastrophic losses, and an unprecedented epidemic of food riots. "In this scenario, global society essentially collapses as food production falls permanently short of consumption."

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Apocalypse Now: The Changing Face of Mass Destruction - disinformation

Scientists, scholars, policymakers, defense strategists, risk analysts and experts in nearly every field have been organizing themselves around the issue of looming catastrophe. In this spirit, let’s take a clear-headed look at the nuclear, chemical, biological, and ecological perils that might befall us in the not-too-distant future.

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150313, by COG : NULL

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Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Collaborative Commons — Basic income

The Revolution will not be Centralized

How will life be after capitalism? A new system of networked cooperating prosumers is slowly being born. But of course the old system could yet take us with it in its death.

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