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Friday essay: how societies evolved into fear-dominated goliaths – then collapsed

We think of ancient civilisations as operating very differently from the way our economy works today. Yet the Bronze Age Assyrians living in Mesopotamia, around 4,000 to 3,000 years ago, began the basis of modern capitalism, in a region spanning most of modern-day Iraq, eastern Syria and southeastern Turkey. The…

The Conversation

Civilisations: Rise and Fall review – TV that will make you despair for our own plummeting society

The mightily stressful and incredibly close-to-the-bone BBC show traces the demise of four ancient worlds – and it’s wildly prescient stuff. Will we never learn?

The Guardian - UK

Baby Steps review roundup: 'Is it possible to love and hate a game at the same time?' (The answer, clearly, is yes)

The new Bennett Foddy-style flailing simulator is "infuriating," "frustrating," "stupid," and most people seem to love it.

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‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse

An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

The Guardian - UK

Power-hungry robots, space colonization, cyborgs: inside the bizarre world of ‘longtermism’

Sam Bankman-Fried said his billions would save the world – but his philanthropic ideas ranged from the worthy to the severely outlandish

The Guardian - US

Climate Endgame: Risk to human extinction or total societal collapse 'dangerously underexplored' say scientists

"Knock-on effects such as financial crises, conflict and new disease outbreaks could trigger other calamities"

Irish Mirror

'No doubt' about climate warming in Ireland as professor lays out 'challenging situation'

Thermometer readings collected on the same date each decade for the last century shows temperatures are rising here

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Global warming could see extinction-level pandemic hit UK in 50 years, scientists warn

Global heating could become “catastrophic” for humanity if temperature rises are worse than many predict or cause a chain of events that haven't even been considered yet

Daily Mirror

Climate change 'played a role in every mass extinction event'

Experts say the possibility it will cause societal collapse or human extinction is ‘dangerously underexplored’

Wales Online

Chances of climate catastrophe are ignored, scientists say

A group of top climate scientists say the world needs to think about the ultimate climate catastrophe — human extinction — and how possible it is

The Independent UK

Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’

Scientists say there are ample reasons to suspect global heating could lead to catastrophe

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