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so it is true what scientists say on twitter that we will collapse in the year 2025 or 2026 ?

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The COVID debacle has shown that we (whether humans in general or just 21st century humans - it doesn't really matter) are utterly incapable of productive collective action against a non-human threat. "Productive" is the key word here. Yes, of course we can do plenty of things that will only make things worse. As we have seen. So, I've stopped objecting when people insist that climate change et al are not real or not a big deal. After all, action to address such things will only make a bad situation even worse. As we saw with COVID. Doing absolutely nothing at all and suffering the consequences is almost certainly better than doing anything that we might realistically get ourselves to do collectively. Again, as we saw with COVID.

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Read 'Defying Hitler' by Sebastian Haffner, real life account of growing up in the professional class in Germany, and resisting the little that could be done. Haffner (pseudonym) escaped to Britain and reported on the war for the BBC Radio. The book gives no inkling that oppression as grotesque as beheading young women was policy for the Nazis.

Who are the Nazis today? What is the pure race that modern nazis advocate? White European? Non-slavic? Why does Putin say we are all fighting nazism today, not just in UK? Who is the we he refers to? BRICS+ ? The Global South? All outside the west???

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Feb 23·edited Feb 23

i really do not get you prof ugo bardi first you say nothing is gonna happen in the years 2025 and 2026 and now we are gonna die with that post and i was really looking forward to the club of rome new book update on weec 2026 presentation from the fifth element with the update no limits to learning ?

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If I hadn't read the title first, I would have though you were talking about the current situation in Ukraine...

Looks like doubling on our own mistakes and still hope for the best is more than an habit.

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https://chasingthesquirrel.com/public/videos/the_search_for_the_white_rose.mp4

The defeat of the German army at Stalingrad marked a turning point in WWII leading to the eventual downfall of the Nazi regime. This defeat was hidden from the German People causing Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans to print leaflets. The White Rose believed that the German people had a right to know the truth about the war. TPTB had other ideas. Just as TPTB have other ideas about truth now.

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Sure restack, homage due, meditate her story. Sophie’s leaflets return this day to our imagination. Julian Assange is very unwell in prison. Thank you Ugo for thinking so clearly.

'War on the Ecosystem'

'… Wisdom looks for words

Their eyes follow me

As Hagen’s dogs follow him,

Trust is upon us…’

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