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Ep 86 – Sprawl Above All

Episode 86 - Sprawl Above AllWhat began as a harmless attempt by the wealthy to escape the poor peasants they were forced to rub shoulders with in the cities turned into the greatest

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Ep 85 – Collapse Chat: Beach Vibes, Rockets, and Burgers

Episode 85 - Ep 85 - Collapse Chat: Beach Vibes, Rockets, and BurgersWhat compels a group of truck owners to drive in a procession down the sandy Florida coast (and how does racism relate to environ

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Ep 84 – Carbon Bootprint

Episode 84 - Carbon the single biggest polluter on earth in both chemicals and greenhouse gas emissions, their effects can be felt around the world in both rising temps and destroye

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Ep 83 – Collapse Chat: Love, Life, and Salmon

Episode 83 - Collapse Chat: Love, Life, and SalmonCollapse Chat is back and it's here to stay. This is the first of a new period for Ashes Ashes. To keep up our high levels of research, we're going

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Ep 82 – Cash Out

Episode 82 - Cash OutSouth Korea is eliminating coins and requiring shoppers to upload their cash receipts to a digital database; Indians are still reeling from a 2016 decision that turned 86% of th

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Ep 81 – This Is Not a Place of Honor

Episode 81 - This Is Not a Place of HonorIt has threatened to start wars and it has (arguably) finished them; its effects and influences can be found throughout our world today; it has nearly limitl

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6. Easter Island - Where Giants Walked

On one of the world’s most isolated islands, hundreds of vast stone statues lie mouldering in the grass. In this episode, we take a look at one of archaeology’s most enduring puzzles: the mystery of E

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Ep 80 – The Nuclear Option

Episode 80 - The Nuclear OptionIt has threatened to start wars and it has (arguably) finished them; its effects and influences can be found throughout our world today; it has nearly limitless power

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Death Dealers - Part II

Episode 79b - Death Dealers Part IIPart II of Ep 79 - Death of Death. War Profiteers. Death Dealers. These are the people who fan the flames of war to transmute human suffering into

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Ep 79 – Death Dealers

Episode 79 - Death of Death. War Profiteers. Death Dealers. These are the people who fan the flames of war to transmute human suffering into profit. They play one nation against ano

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Ep 78 – Grounded

Episode 78 - deregulation of the Airline industry in 1978 brought big changes to air travel. Lower prices, more routes, and consolidation of the market allowed for regional hub-and-

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Ep 77 – Coping with Collapse

Episode 77 - Coping with of the systemic threats to our world comes at a cost. Often, that cost includes feelings of isolation, existential dread, depression, shock, and other unco

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Ep 76 – Self-made

Episode 76 - Self-madeFor once we thought it would be nice to look at a culture of building things up, rather than the slow collapse of everything around us that we normally discuss. We find this cu

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Ep 75 – Business. School.

Episode 75 - Business. School.The past few decades has seen explosive growth in the number of universities around the world, but it may not be for the noble reasons we would like. Decreased public f

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Ep 74 – Eco-lapse

Episode 74 - Eco-lapseThe IPBES Global Assessment summary is out and we're digging in to all 39 pages this week. The report lays out a grim picture of our current world in terms of life on earth, th

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Ep 73 – Tear Up, Tear Down

Episode 73 - Tear Up, Tear DownProtests around the world in 2011 gave riot-gear dealers a three-fold increase in sales of tear gas. In 2013, Turkey used up an entire year's supply of tear gas in jus

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5. The Khmer Empire - Fall of the God Kings

Deep in the Cambodian Jungle, a ruined city crumbles among the roots of banyan trees. In this episode, we look at the history of the Khmer Empire of medieval Cambodia, and the ancient mega-city of Ang

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Ep 72 – BONUS EPISODE

BONUS EPISODE (there is no episode)Well we fucked up and here we are without an episode (it would've been really great, we swear). We didn't want to leave our loyal listeners hanging, so we put someth

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Ep 71 – The Mean, Big Green, Corporate Machine

Episode 71 - The Mean, Big Green, Corporate MachineThe world may be burning, but more and more companies are giving us green alternatives to our favorite products so we can continue to shop and cons

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Ep 70 – Thinner Ice

Episode 70 - Thinner IceNew reports find the Arctic to be the warmest it's been in millennia, and complex feedback loops mean this warming could continue unabated for decades to come. While the Arct

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Ep 69 – Rent Seekers

Episode 69 - Rent SeekersHalf of America's poor pay at least 50% of their income on rent, while a quarter of them pay over 70%, and this trend is worsening as the number of affordable housing units

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Ep 68 – Mask Off

Episode 68 - Mask OffHalf of all US Citizens have their faces in a database that can be searched by software, and the slow creep of surveillance technology means more of us are being

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Ep 67 – Collapse Chat: So Long and Thanks for All the Surveillance

Episode 67 - Collapse Chat: So Long and Thanks for All the week we're trying a new format for periodic updates. Daniel, David, and Moriah King all sit down together to discuss a han

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4. The Greenland Vikings - Land of the Midnight Sun

One of the most unlikely tales of a society’s fall in is the incredible saga of the Vikings of Greenland. Find out the history of how these European settlers built a society on the farthest edge of th

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Ep 66 – Trash Talk

Episode 66 - Trash TalkThe world is garbage and we're talking trash in this week's episode. What really happens when you throw something away? Is recycling as green as we think it is? Just how much

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Ep 65 – Above the Paving Stones, the Desert

Episode 65 - Above the Paving Stones, the of Spain is at risk of permanent The cold and wet country of Iceland holds half of all Europe's deserts. China's Gobi Dese

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Ep 64 – Sweet Re-Release

Episode 64 - Sweet Re-ReleaseIt's natural, it's delicious, it's everywhere, and it may be killing us. For years, sugar has been overlooked as a serious detriment to our health because of the manipul

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Ep 63 – Busy Work

Episode 63 - Busy WorkSome 37% of workers believe their jobs are pointless, and if we include the jobs that exist to serve those pointless jobs in some way, it's possible that half of the jobs in ou

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Ep 62 – Separate Ways

Episode 62 - Separate WaysA global epedimic of loneliness is spreading rapidly. 20% of the UK population claims to be always or often lonely, 3 out of 4 people fin the US are affected by loneliness,

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Ep 61 – Owning Change

Episode 61 - Owning ChangeIn an age of global disparity and inequity, billionaire (dead and alive) are stepping up to the plate with powerful foundations and acts of charitable givin

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3. The Mayan Collapse - Ruins Among the Trees

In the tropical forests of Central America, vast stone pyramids slowly crumble beneath the trees.In this episode, we look at one of history's great romantic mysteries: the fall of the Classic Maya Civ

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Ep 60 – Drawn Apart

Episode 84 - Carbon the single biggest polluter on earth in both chemicals and greenhouse gas emissions, their effects can be felt around the world in both rising temps and destroye3