Breaking Down: Collapse

It's not just the current geopolitical situation that's putting food supply under stress - it's been growing for a long time and is getting worse.

‘I’ve never seen anything like it’: Hawaii’s small farmers begin recovery after catastrophic flooding | Hawaii | The Guardian
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UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying | Farming | The Guardian
From gas to grain: Fertilizer disruptions raise risks for food security and trade | UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
How the Iran war could shatter global food security
Australia to Plant Less Wheat as Iran War Deepens Global Fertilizer Supplies - Bloomberg
Palm oil, cocoa, coffee… Who's going to tend to tomorrow's large tropical plantations?

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Established and important US infrastructure is rapidly being demolished, not as a forced response to desperate need, but in the petulant outbursts of a grifting narcissist.

The US government just used a dormant 48-year-old committee to strip endangered species protections from the entire Gulf of Mexico. : r/collapse
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ chose oil drilling over endangered species in the Gulf. This whale could be in particular danger | CNN
BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
White House seeks $1.5 tn defense budget as Iran war drives costs
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New updates to economists' thoughts on AI and job loss, and new research shows the "heat island" effect of data centers on more than 340 million people globally.

Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN
States with the most data centers
Economists Are Drawing Stronger Connections Between A.I. and Jobs - The New York Times
Top leadership experts sound the alarm on the AI doomsday: bosses are choosing tech over people | Fortune
Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence \ Anthropic
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Trump announces he is issuing an unconstitutional executive order to shut down mail-in voting nationwide and he will defund states if they do not comply with him : r/law
Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections – The White House
Trump Suffers His Fourth—and Worst—Legal Blow in Just Hours | The New Republic
Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hearing
Judge orders Trump to halt $400 million White House ballroom project, for now | Reuters
Donald Trump tells Pam Bondi she's fired over Epstein files fiasco after humiliating clash - The Mirror US
Trump DOJ sues Idaho as even red states resist voter data demands - Democracy Docket
Secret Chaos Exposed at Attorney General Pam Bondi’s DOJ Over Trump’s $10B Suit
Arkansas’ Ten Commandments Monument Law Ruled Unconstitutional
Judge says Trump not immune from civil claims his Jan. 6 words incited riot | AP News
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This was a wild week in the climate, and I fear every week will be this way moving forward. Here's some news from the around world.

Also, please forgive the audio quality. I recorded it twice, and the second time I apparently had the wrong mic recording. Sorry!

Limiting global warming to 2C would not ‘rule out’ extreme impacts - Carbon Brief
UK food supply at risk of 'catastrophic failure' by 2030, report warns - FarmingUK News
Malaysia dam levels on alert amid heatwave | The Straits Times
16 states with the highest March day temperature record. : r/collapse
Extreme climate, our biggest"enemy" : r/collapse
Arctic sea ice at lowest level ever this winter
‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds | Extreme heat | The Guardian
Jakarta rapidly sinks as climate change and overdevelopment collide | PBS News
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