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Global Heatwave is Symptom of Early Stage Cycle of Civilisational Collapse
The extreme weather events of the summer of 2018 are not just symptoms of climate breakdown. They are early stage warnings of a protracted process of civilisational collapse as industrial societies face some of the opening symptoms of having already breached the limits of a safe climate. These events are a taste of things to come on a business-as-usual trajectory. They elicit a sense of how industrial civilisational systems are vulnerable to collapse due to escalating climate impacts. And they highlight the urgent necessity of communities everywhere undertaking steps to achieve a systemic civilisational transition toward post-capitalist systems which can survive and prosper after fossil fuels.
Climate ‘doom’ is already here
This summer’s extreme weather has hit home some stark realities.
Climate disaster is not slated to happen in some far-flung theoretical future.
It’s here, and now.
Droughts threatening food supplies, floods in Japan, extreme rainfall in the eastern US, wildfires in California, Sweden and Greece.
In the UK, holiday-makers trying to cross the Channel tunnel to France faced massive queues when air conditioning facilities on trains failed due to the heatwave. Thousands of people were stranded for five hours in the 30C heat without water.
In southern Laos, heavy rains led to a dam collapse, rendering thousands of people homeless and flooding several villages.
‘World On Fire’: Climate Breakdown
Most of the traditional media did not report these incidents as symptoms of an evolving climate crisis.
Some commentators did point out that the events might be linked to climate change.
None at all acknowledged that these extreme weather events might be related to the fact that since 2015, we have essentially inhabited a planet that is already around 1C warmer than the pre-industrial average: and that therefore, we are already, based on the best available science, inhabiting a dangerous climate.
Global warming reaches 1°C above preindustrial, warmest in more than 11,000 years
The breaching of the 1C tipping point — which former NASA climate science chief James Hansen pinpointed as the upper limit to retain a safe climate — was followed this March by atmospheric carbon concentrations reaching, for the first time since records began, 400 ppm (parts per million).
Once again, the safe upper limit highlighted by Hansen and colleagues — 350 ppm — has already been breached.
Yet these critical climate milestones have been breached consecutively with barely a murmur from either the traditional and alternative media.
The recent spate of catastrophic events are not mere anomalies. They are the latest signifiers of a climate system that is increasingly out of balance — a system that was already fatally struck off balance through industrial overexploitation of natural resources centuries ago.
The Climate “Doomsday” is Already Here
Our sense-making apparatus is broken
But for the most part, the sense-making apparatus by which we understand what is happening in the world — the Global Media-Industrial Complex (a network of media communications portals comprised of both traditional corporate and alternative outlets) — has failed to convey these stark realities to the vast majority of the human population.
We are largely unaware that 19th and early 20th century climate change induced by industrial fossil fuel burning has already had devastating impacts on the regional climate of Sub-Saharan Africa; just as it now continues to have escalating devastating impacts on weather systems all over the world.
The reality which we are not being told is this: these are the grave consequences of inhabiting a planet where global average temperatures are roughly 1C higher than the pre-industrial norm.
Sadly, instead of confronting this fundamentally existential threat to the human species — one which in its fatal potential implications point to the bankruptcy of the prevailing paradigms of social, political and economic organisation (along with the ideology and value-systems associated with them) — the preoccupation of the Global Media-Industrial Complex is at worst to focus human mind and behaviour on consumerist trivialities.
At best, its focus is to pull us into useless, polarising left-right dichotomies and forms of impotent outrage that tend to distract us from taking transformative systemic action, internally (within and through our own selves, behaviour psychologies, beliefs, values, consciousness and spirit) and externally (in our relationships as well as our structural-institutional and socio-cultural contexts).
Collapse happens when the system is overwhelmed
These are the ingredients for the beginning of civilisational collapse processes. In each of these cases, we see how extreme weather events induced by climate change creates unanticipated conditions for which international, national and local institutions are woefully unprepared.
In order to respond, massive new expenditures are involved, including emergency mobilisations as well as new spending to try to build more robust adaptations that might be better prepared ‘next time’.
But the reality is that we are already failing to avert an ongoing trajectory of global temperatures rising to not merely a dangerous 2C (imagine a doubling intensity of the sorts of events we’ve seen this summer happening year on year); but, potentially, as high as 8C (the catastrophic impacts of which would render much of the planet uninhabitable).
EXCLUSIVE: Liberal philanthropy is dooming the planet to climate disaster, documents reveal
In these contexts, we can begin to see how a protracted collapse process might unfold. Such a collapse process does not in itself guarantee the ‘end of the world’, or even simply the disappearance of civilisation.
What it does imply is that specific political, economic, social, military and other institutional systems are likely to become increasingly overwhelmed due to rising costs of responding to unpredictable and unanticipated climate wild cards.
It should be noted that as those costs are rising, we are simultaneously facing diminishing economic returns from our constant overexploitation of planetary resources, in terms of fossil fuels and other natural resourcs.
Govt economic advisor warns British defence planners that growth is ending
In other words, in coming decades, business-as-usual implies a future of tepid if not declining economic growth, amidst escalating costs of fossil fuel consumption, compounded by exponentially accelerating costs of intensifying climate impacts as they begin to erode and then pummel and then destroy the habitable infrastructure of industrial civilisation as we know it.
Earth System Disruption (ESD) — the biophysical processes of climate, energy and ecological breakdown — increasingly lead to Human System Destabilisation (HSD). HSD in turn inhibits our capacity to meaningfully respond and adapt to the conditions of ESD. ESD, meanwhile, simply worsens. This, eventually, leads to further HSD. The cycle continues as a self-reinforcing amplifying feedback loop, and each time round the cycle comprises a process of collapse.
Failing States, Collapsing Systems – BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence | Nafeez Mosaddeq
This model, which I developed in my Springer Energy Briefs study Failing States, Collapse Systems, demonstrates that the type of collapse we are likely to see occurring in coming years is a protracted, cyclical process that worsens with each round. It is not a final process, and it is not set-in-stone. At each point, the possibility of intervening at critical points to mitigate, ameliorate, adapt, or subvert still exists. But it gets harder and harder to do so effectively the deeper into the collapse cycle we go.
Insanity
One primary sympton of the collapse process is that as it deepens, the capacity of the prevailing civilisational configuration to understand what is happening becomes increasingly diminished.
Far from waking up and taking action, we see that the human species is becoming increasingly mired in obsessing over geopolitical and economic competition, self-defeating acts of ‘self’-preservation (where the ‘self’ is completely misidentified), and focused entirely on projecting problems onto the ‘Other’.
A key signifier of how insidious this is, is in yourself. Look to see how your critical preoccupations are not with yourself or those with which you identify; but that and those whom you oppose and consider to be ‘wrong.’
Only ‘collective intelligence’ can help us stave off an uninhabitable planet
At core, the critical precondition for effective action at this point is for each of us to radically subvert and challenge these processes through a combination of internal introspection and outward action.
In ourselves, the task ahead is for each of us to become the seeds of that new, potential civilisational form — ‘another world’ which is waiting to be birthed not through some far-flung ‘revolution’ in the future, but here and now through the transformations we undertake in ourselves and in our contexts.
We first wake up. We wake up to the reality of what is happening in the world. We then wake up to our own complicity in that reality and truly face up to the intricate acts of self-deception we routinely undertake to conceal ourselves from this complicity. We then look to mobilise ourselves anew to undo these threads of complicity where feasible, and to create new patterns of work and play that connect us back with the Earth and the Cosmos. And we work to connect our own re-patterning with the re-patterning work of others, with a view to plant the seed-networks of the next system — a system which is not so much ‘next’, but here and now, emergent in the fresh choices we make everyday.
So… welcome.
45 Comments on "Global Heatwave is Symptom of Early Stage Cycle of Civilisational Collapse"
Dredd on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 10:55 am
“Global Heatwave is Symptom of Early Stage Cycle of Civilisational Collapse”
It means a coming surge in sea level change too (The World According To Measurements – 19).
Darrell Cloud on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 10:59 am
I remember reading about rivers that flowed through what is now the Sahara Desert. Climate changes, that is the nature of dynamic systems. Chaos theory suggests that seemingly tiny inputs into such a system may have huge impacts long term. Such is the nature of the butterfly effect. Our hubris lies in the assumption that we can predict outcomes with but a superficial understanding of the processes involved.
I am a fan of Nassim Taleb and his black swan theory. I personally believe that a person should set aside about 15% of his resources to prepare for the zombie apocalypse. The zombies I am worried about are not the walking dead popularized in the genre. The ones I am worried about are the good old boys and the gang bangers that haven’t eaten in a week.
Outcast_Searcher on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 11:31 am
Of course. Because a crowdfunded blog says so.
Doomers can’t seem to grasp that inconvenience, recession, or problems generally don’t always mean short term COLLAPSE.
But, spreading FUD for fun an profit seems to be a thing.
I am still very concerned about climate change in coming decades and especially through the end of the century and beyond.
That’s FAR different than claiming “it’s here and now” and talking about “civilizational collapse”, however.
penury on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 1:50 pm
If the title is mis=spelled I do not read the article.
joe on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 2:02 pm
People can’t live more than 3 days without water and more than a couple of weeks without food. In a shtf scenario its probably going to be the case that people will try to abandon cities and aquire resources like water in the country. In that line of thinking it’s very likely that after a few weeks/months most roaming people/gangs will be physically weak and unable to overcome very much. Preppers won’t be much better off either, we must remember that we face worsening habitable environment for humans therefore if you stay put you’ll die soon too because you won’t be able to grow food reliably for very long. Think mongol hordes rather than ‘road warriors’. Once food prices rise up due to climate change, people won’t be able to afford driving, thats gonna be the Paris Accord without even trying, sadly its gonna mean big changes for standard of living too….
JuanP on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 2:43 pm
“the Global Media-Industrial Complex (a network of media communications portals comprised of both traditional corporate and alternative outlets) — has failed to convey these stark realities to the vast majority of the human population.”
The vast majority of the human population doesn’t want to know shit about these stark realities. I spent decades pointlessly arguing with people about these issues until I realized that nothing I could ever do or say would make any difference, and I stopped. People should invest their energy, time, and money in making preparations for what’s coming; trying to stop it is a waste of time.
joe on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 3:03 pm
Anti-Migrant Eurosceptic party could be kingmaker in SWEDEN.
“https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/998121/Sweden-election-Eurosceptic-Sweden-Democrats-socialist-vote-latest-polls”
GregT on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 3:12 pm
“The vast majority of the human population doesn’t want to know shit about these stark realities. I spent decades pointlessly arguing with people about these issues until I realized that nothing I could ever do or say would make any difference, and I stopped. People should invest their energy, time, and money in making preparations for what’s coming; trying to stop it is a waste of time.”
Completely agree JuanP, my experience as well. There is no better way to quickly alienate family and friends, than to speak the truth. If it isn’t hopelessly optimistic, very few people want to hear any of it. The human brain simply isn’t wired for negative future developments.
twocats on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 3:15 pm
“If the title is mis=spelled I do not read the article.” =good one. i think civilisational is an english thing. its used that way throughout.
nafeez mosaddeq blows taleb out of the water. this is great stuff. he is one of the most eloquent writers and thinkers today about collapse and i’ve read enough excerpts from his “Failing States” to know he is accurately analyzing how collapse has already begun and is in full swing.
onlooker on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 4:10 pm
The human brain simply isn’t wired for negative future developments.—
Completely agree
MASTERMIND on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 4:15 pm
Nobody writes better than Dr Ahmed..Here is a free link to his last peer reviewed collapse book..
http://www.academia.edu/34816514/Failing_States_Collapsing_Systems_BioPhysical_Triggers_of_Political_Violence_SPRINGER_BRIEFS_IN_ENERGY_
Enjoy!
MASTERMIND on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 4:17 pm
Onlooker
Humanity has a key failing – we tend to deny our problems. Humanity denies some things because they force us to ‘confront change’, others because they are just too painful, or make us afraid..
onlooker on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 4:36 pm
Precisely MM. Look at that, you me and Greg all in agreement
GregT on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 4:46 pm
“Precisely MM. Look at that, you me and Greg all in agreement”
I think that we are all in agreement more than not onlooker.
onlooker on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 4:51 pm
And especially in comparison to the many sheeple out there
GregT on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 4:55 pm
“Nobody writes better than Dr Ahmed..Here is a free link to his last peer reviewed collapse book..”
Thanks for that MM. I’ve skimmed through it already and I’ll be sure to read the entire article tonight.
A quick thought however, after reading his conclusions, I would have to say that I find him to be overly optimistic.
I don’t see a top down systemic transition occurring anytime soon. I see a bottom up transition at the small local community level, with widespread violence and general malaise in densely populated urban areas globally.
Unless of course a runaway greenhouse event is triggered, which may very well already be the case, then all bets are off for the human race.
GregT on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 5:25 pm
“I don’t see a top down systemic transition occurring anytime soon.”
On second thought, with one caveat, Europe. At least they have identified the issues, and are working towards long term solutions.
North America is screwed.
MASTERMIND on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 5:55 pm
Greg
I agree with that..I think we all are in agreement..We just differ on how fast and how hard the collapse will be..
pointer on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 5:57 pm
The march of folly continues.
GregT on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 6:35 pm
MM,
Personally, I have no idea as to how quickly a collapse could be. There are far too many variables to take into consideration. Ultimately, I think that it will be a total collapse of pretty much everything that we’ve become accustomed to. But of course, I could be wrong.
Makati1 on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 6:44 pm
GregT, I don’t see Europe doing a “top down” transition. They have too many other problems to get very far with any positive transition. It may be possible in countries that are not very far up the economic ladder, but not the OECD countries.
As far as the Us is concerned, you are spot on. They ARE screwed. Total debts there are already over three times the fake GDP. The only transition I see in their future is down.
MASTERMIND on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 6:59 pm
Greg
Here is a movie clip from a film about a currency crisis that collapses the global economy..I think it will look very similar to what this movie envisioned..But with an oil crisis instead..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPYLJoq_40Y
MASTERMIND on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 7:07 pm
Capitalism will fail harder than communism did. Yes, you were brainwashed, programmed, and distracted to think otherwise..
Makati1 on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 7:24 pm
“The current heatwave has been caused by an extraordinary stalling of the jet stream wind, which usually funnels cool Atlantic weather over the continent. This has left hot, dry air in place for two months – far longer than usual. The stalling of the northern hemisphere jet stream is being increasingly firmly linked to global warming, in particular to the rapid heating of the Arctic and resulting loss of sea ice.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-fires-and-droughts-the-media-cover-up-of-climate-change/5649392
Reaching the big tipping point? Only Mother Nature knows.
Bloomer on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 8:08 pm
We the people chose to go down the climate change path. Just like the chain smoker who been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer there is no going back. Hug your loves ones and get your shit in order. Be at peace with what the climate is rather then what it could of been.
Makati1 on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 8:59 pm
“Hug your loves ones and get your shit in order.” Good advice, Bloomer. That is about all we can do at this point. Prep to ease the adjustment down. Do it now.
Davy on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 9:19 pm
“GregT, I don’t see Europe doing a “top down” transition.”
Billy 3rd world all you see is how woderful Asia is and that is because you moved there. That is the only reason. Reality does not matter to you it is all about you and your move. You want to make sure everyone knows you did the very best thing and others are doing the wrong thing.
MASTERMIND on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 10:21 pm
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how..
-Nietzsche
GregT on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 10:30 pm
“Billy 3rd world all you see is how woderful Asia is and that is because you moved there. That is the only reason. Reality does not matter to you it is all about you and your move.”
For crying out loud Davy, you’re obsessed with Makati1’s decision to move. You’ve been bitching and moaning about it for five years now.
Let him go already.
Makati1 on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 11:10 pm
Let’s see. Who could have a better, more realistic picture of Asia, especially the Philippines, than someone who has lived there for over 10 years?
Why, Davy of course, who has never been within 4,000 miles of Philippines. Oh, and the anti-Asian propaganda that he sucks up from the UsMSM brainwashing organization.
I am well aware of the problems in China, Japan, the Koreans, etc as they are in my “backyard”, so to speak. It is the newest area for the Us to start a war that they need so badly and soon.
I am also aware of the different cultures here. They are nowhere close to the “let someone else do it” American way of life. But Some will never grasp that distinction because they are either stupid or in denial. So be it.
Cloggie on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 11:55 pm
I worry about too much oil, not too little.
Makati1 on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 12:01 am
For the education of those who believe that oil is necessary for farming…
http://www.dutchpickle.com/philippines/leyte/farmer-with-carabao-and-plow.html
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cCQA46fWIo
or
https://www.123rf.com/stock-photo/philippines_rice_fields.html?sti=lpyizs12fxb7tlywd9|&mediapopup=88311105
This is a common sight here.
Dooma on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 12:55 am
The absolute world’s richest must be getting a little anxious by now as reality starts to bite the great unwashed.
I wonder when they will head to their bolt-holes?
jedrider on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 1:00 am
Civilizational collapse must be like a toilet being flushed. We’re still on top, but circling the drain faster and faster.
Makati1 on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 1:17 am
Dooma, probably at the first sign of the guillotines being set up on the National Mall in DC. The Washington sky will be full of private jets. lol
Dooma on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 3:17 am
They can run, but they can’t hide forever.
I cannot believe that so few can still get away with having so much more than the average person. And by the ‘average’ person, I mean most of the developing nations.
Hollywood has glamorised greed, and plenty of idiots around the world are fixated instead at looking over their shoulder at the massive reality check that is going to hit them.
Makati1 on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 3:39 am
before the Sinophobes on here say “I told you so” I will give the true story, not the AP version from the US propaganda mill.
“A Philippine air force plane on patrol near the Chinese-held islands received a particularly offensive radio message in late January when it was warned by Chinese forces that it was “endangering the security of the Chinese reef. Leave immediately and keep off to avoid misunderstanding,” according to the Philippine government report.
Shortly afterward, the plane received a veiled threat: “Philippine military aircraft, I am warning you again, leave immediately or you will pay the possible consequences.” The Filipino pilot later “sighted two flare warning signals from the reef,” said the report, which identified the Chinese-occupied island as Gaven Reef.
Chinese Embassy officials did not reply to requests for comment, but Beijing officials have repeatedly said they have the right to build on what they say is their territory and defend their sovereignty at all costs.
Philippine air force chief Lieutenant General Galileo Gerard Rio Kintanar Jr. said Filipino pilots respond calmly to the Chinese radio messages and proceed with their mission as planned, adding that the higher number of reported radio challenges reflects the Philippine military’s commitment to protect the country’s territorial interests through intensified patrols.
“They do that because of their claim to that area and we have a standard response and proceed with what we’re doing,” Kintanar said.”
https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1755547/Manila/Local-News/Philippines-raises-concern-over-Chinese-radio-warnings
No different than the Us ships being escorted by Chinese jets or ships when they get too close. Meanwhile, Duterte is going to buy all of the new military weapons from China instead of the Us. I guess the MIC is pissed. lol
Davy on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 4:59 am
“For crying out loud Davy, you’re obsessed with Makati1’s decision to move. You’ve been bitching and moaning about it for five years now.”
Greygoar, you approve and enable his anti-American agenda. He is anti-western and “NEVER” has an Asian criticism. That is a dead giveaway for his personal agenda of I am right you are wrong. Greygoar, you like this talk because you also are anti-American and anti-western.
“Let’s see. Who could have a better, more realistic picture of Asia, especially the Philippines, than someone who has lived there for over 10 years?”
Please, billy 3rd world, this is about objectivity or subjectivity about a Continent not your little itty bitty part of the P’s. You don’t know the whole of Asian any more than I do.
“Oh, and the anti-Asian propaganda that he sucks up from the UsMSM brainwashing organization.”
BS, I balance the overwhelming amount of tabloid anti-American dumps from you and others here. There is rarely Asia critical articles or comments here. It is primarily extremist emotional anti-Americanism of which you are the worst billy 3rd world.
“I am also aware of the different cultures here. They are nowhere close to the “let someone else do it” American way of life. “
I am not sure what part of American you got that attitude from but around here many people work hard. So you are again full of shit. I think that is your attitude because you don’t do anything on your little fantasy farm. You yourself said you hire out your labor on the cheap.
Davy on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 5:02 am
“I cannot believe that so few can still get away with having so much more than the average person. And by the ‘average’ person, I mean most of the developing nations.”
AH, what about the rich and budding middle class in the emerging markets? I guess that is ok right dooma? What about the poor in the developing world that are getting poor because of the rise of the emerging market nations? You guys are bent on anti-westernism. Asia is westernizing but that is ok.
GregT on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 8:45 am
“Greygoar, you approve and enable his anti-American agenda.”
There is nobody on this forum with the username Greygoar, Davy.
I have no right to tell Makati1 what his opinion should, or should not be. I cannot enable, or disable his opinion. Makati1’s opinion is his own, and he has every right to his own opinion.
“He is anti-western and “NEVER” has an Asian criticism. That is a dead giveaway for his personal agenda of I am right you are wrong.”
Your personal agenda Davy, for the last five years, which you have made crystal clear, is to not allow Makati1 to voice his opinion.
How’s that been working out for you so far?
“Greygoar, you like this talk because you also are anti-American and anti-western.”
I am neither anti-American, or ant-western. That would simply be more of your usual paranoid delusions Davy.
You need psychological help Davy. Please go and speak with a mental healthcare professional.
Cloggie on Sat, 4th Aug 2018 2:49 am
Nobody writes better than Dr Ahmed..Here is a free link to his last peer reviewed collapse book..
Hand in hand with Nafeez Ahmed, since according to this “closet” Islamist, Islam is the answer to all our problems:
https://extranewsfeed.com/how-islam-can-burn-through-the-cancer-of-misogyny-1c5150157606
Nafeez Ahmed: “stop the cancer of misogyny” (translation: give up your lands to us)
And millikike and his allies in the (((media))) will support this message.
NYT latest anti-white stunt (read the tweets by Sarah Yeong):
https://www.geenstijl.nl/5143234/new-york-times-huurt-openlijke-anti-blanke-racist-in-duikt-in-slachtoffermodus-bij-kritiek/
What a complete nightmare Anglosphere is. It’s a Titanic, Europe should leave at the earliest opportunity.
joe on Sat, 4th Aug 2018 3:27 am
Cloggie you don’t understand what you are saying. The UK owns most of Europe with America via offshore legal black holes (the main one being the borough of the City of London, a city state like the Vatican in the middle of a metropolis). The EU needs capital to function, without London, everything falls onto the socialist legal bureaucracy with no flexibility in frankfurt. The EU wealthy will be cut off, thats why they are going crying to Putin….
Cloggie on Sat, 4th Aug 2018 4:37 am
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6025929/Europe-faces-hottest-day-today-killer-Iberian-Plume-claims-three-lives.html
Europe faces its hottest day EVER today with temperatures set to hit 118F: Killer Iberian Plume heatwave claims three lives, glaciers melt in the Alps and people sleep in supermarket REFRIGERATOR aisles
Cloggie on Sat, 4th Aug 2018 5:54 pm
The UK owns most of Europe with America via offshore legal black holes (the main one being the borough of the city of london, a city state like the Vatican in the middle of a metropolis). The EU needs capital to function, without london, everything falls onto the socialist legal bureaucracy with no flexibility in Frankfurt.
No shit Sherlock! Until now I thought Europe needs you for exactly nothing. And actually I think that a likely hard Brexit is going to show exactly the opposite of what you claim, namely that you need us more than the other way around.
http://time.com/5337408/brexit-theresa-may-eu-boris-johnson/
“How Brexit Is Becoming a Political Disaster for Britain”, by (((Ian Bremmer)))
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/08/the-guardian-view-of-mays-brexit-reality-dawns-but-is-it-too-late
“The Guardian view of May’s Brexit: reality dawns, but is it too late?”
Bloomer on Sat, 2nd Mar 2019 12:11 am
It will take collection intelligent to solve global climate change. The folks that visit this site can’t even reach a consensus ffs.