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a quote from Ourfiniteworld.com:

Gail Tverberg says:

May 29, 2022 at 2:41 pm

Collapse seems to happen in steps. We are already in the midst of collapse. The clearly downhill path started in 2019, and 2020 (with COVID) pushed the world economy further.

Different parts of the world, and different people within different parts of the world, experience collapse differently. The rising conflict among political parties is part of collapse. Rising conflict actually started before Donald Trump was elected in 2016.

We are basically dealing with “not enough to go around.” Some have described the situation as “catabolic collapse.” How it looks precisely keeps changing. Government organizations that seemed to be trustworthy before, stop being trustworthy. Wars start. The level of world hunger rises. Death rates rise. The number of broken supply lines and empty shelves keeps increasing.

Like an avalanche, collapse happens slowly at first, and then (perhaps), all at once. We are likely to miss the starting parts of collapse, if we don’t look for them.

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I think Trump and Brexit brought them out from under their rock, but the current effort had its genesis in the mid to late nineties, when they drafted what became the Patriot Act. But we're some way down the slippery slope already and accelerating hard.

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