A 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, a quarter of Japanese men over 60 don't have a single friend or family member they can talk to, and there is an alarming rise of youth across borders who are feeling joyless, useless, and alien in their own homelands. This is a growing health disaster: loneliness has been shown to significantly increase the risk of early death, heart disease, stroke, and much more. Medicine and the high tech industry are working on "loneliness pills" and other high tech software fixes, but we're increasingly afraid that they've missed the point and are wasting time chasing symptoms. This week we explore the systemic causes of why we all feel so alone and look towards a world where we make the dramatic shifts to our social insitutions, governments, economic relationships, and very culture so we can begin to repair the frayed seams of our great big collective family.
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Ep 107 – Face Off
Ep 106 – Human Nature
Ep 105 – School's Out
Ep 104 – This Land Is My Land
Ep 103 – Minimum Justice
Ep 102 – The Then, The Now, and The Next
Ep 101 – Collapse Chat: We Didn't Start the Fire
Ep 100 – One Hundred Years of Ashes
Ep 99 – Collapse Chat: Border Patrol Catch COVID-19
Ep 98 – Water World (Spoiler: Not So Good)
Ep 97 – Collapse Chat: Borders, Fires, Viruses, and Cannibalism
Ep 96 – Walls That Divide U.S.
Ep 95 – Collapse Chat: Silviculturists, Entrepreneurs and Social Science
Ep 94 – If a Tree Falls
Ep 93 – Collapse Chat: Birds, Vindictive Climate, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Ep 92 – Good Heavens
Ep 91 – Collapse Chat: Name and Shame, Community, and Re-Imaginings
Ep 90 – A Grave Situation
Ep 89 – Collapse Chat: Banality, Good, and Evil
Ep 88 – This Land is Our Land
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