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This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment.
Collapse, in this context, refers to the significant loss of an established level or complexity towards a much simpler state. It can occur differently within many areas, orderly or chaotically, and be willing or unwilling. It does not necessarily imply human extinction or a singular, global event. Although, the longer the duration, the more it resembles a ‘decline’ instead of collapse.
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Location: Southern Ireland
Picture: Cerberus heatwave over the Iberian peninsula and southern France
Location: Central Germany
Cerberus heatwave mostly spared us here with only Saturday being a freakishly hot day (28°C --> 38°C temp jump for a day) but it showed me once again how badly prepared most older buildings are for what is to come.
We have been very lucky so far. It's only a question of time before we're hit by a heat dome like the one that wrecked BC.
I currently make about 100% of my power during the sunny days but it will take an upgrade and investment into a insular and black start capable system with a few kWh storage buffer to be able to run AC when the grid is down. Not cheap and will take some planning.
It unfortuablty also triggers the usual idiots here [as in: here in Germany] that think this is the navel of the world and are shrugging heat waves in other places of because their stupid asses are not sweating. Behaviour like this is so fucking frustrating and one of the main reasons I am very skeptical about humankind surviving in the long run.
The only thing that will curtail the conspicuous consumption here is poverty. (Un)fortunately that is coming, fast. And a nasty side effect will be dysfunctional political landscape. Wagenknecht should do her thing already, if only to limit the damage.
Location: Czechia
Absolutely no bugs or birds. It's on the decline for some years but it's just earily quiet this summer.
Do you mean that literally? As in no birds what so ever? If so, that's just so incredible sad.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, sure I've seen some pigeons and heard a bird here and there. But sitting on my balcony, I just hear silence (and some traffic) where birdsong used to almost drown out traffic noise. Two trees in front of my home always had several bird nests, nothing this year. I haven't seen a single sparrow or woodpecker which used to be common. And I'm barely seeing any insects on places that used to be full of them so I guess there's just nothing left to eat.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic
I was serious, I'm sorry if I came across as rude.
And I'm barely seeing any insects on places that used to be full of them so I guess there's just nothing left to eat.
Thank you for sharing this sad news. The reason I asked is that I live in Europe as well, and if things are this severe in Central Europe, than pretty soon the shitshow will come for the rest of us as well. Luckily birds and insects are still going strong here in western parts of Norway, for now that is. Still we're seeing more jellyfish in the fjords and less fish than before. We're also experiencing more ticks than earlier years. Things are looking bleak indeed.
Hello neighbor. I'll be vacationing in the Haugesund area this year.
Things are slightly better in Southern Germany than Northern, and Eastern Germany is declining slower still. The good part is that it's partly reversible if you restructure agricultural landscapes. Though migrating birds cover a large area, where isolated national policies don't help that much.
I'll be vacationing in the Haugesund area this year.
Hi there, if you like hiking you're in for a treat, just remember to pack your rain gear and prep for cool/cold weather. I live further north in the Molde area and funnily enough my neighbours are from Kiel and they left to get away from the crowdy area. Personaly I like it best in the southern parts of Germany and have been quite a lot in the Stuttgart, München and Ingolstadt area. Used to visit the Christmas market in Stuttgart before Covid, it was amazing.
Thanks! Give me a ring when you're in Munich again.
Will do, ditto if you're ever around Molde.
It depends now much industrial monocrop agriculture is nearby and how many local bird feeders are filled throughout the year. You can change the microenvironment in your own garden easily enough, but agricultural and environmental policy is harder to influence. Municipal level is usually where it ends.
Location: Massachusetts, USA
First credible flood warnings in my area.
Some context: The region in which I live, after catastrophic flooding in the middle of the 20th century, domesticated and tamed all of the rivers. We have a system of dams and other flood control that mostly keeps our water levels very stable. New Englanders do not understand how artificial the stability of our water levels is, and the kinds of floods we used to have here before all the dams were built to make sure that never happens again.
But now we're getting rainfall like never before, and it's not like our dams are any better maintained than our bridges are - and our bridges are a known scandal.
Location: suburbs of Chicago, IL
While I usually live in NC, I am visiting family. In this particular brand of suburbia, every single day the streets are alive with the sound of gas powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers. While I watch the news drone on about petty celebrity drama, the graph breaking upward trend of ocean temperatures elicits barely a word from any news source, and people carry on paying to burn gasoline to make already short grass shorter and move the cuttings around.