Breaking Down: Collapse — Episodes 1–7
Breaking Down: Collapse offers an unusually clear and accessible introduction to the systemic vulnerabilities of modern industrial civilization. In Episodes 1–7, hosts Kory and Kellan build the case step by step, exploring societal collapse, the fragility of complex systems, energy dependence, ecological overshoot and limits to growth, catabolic collapse, the financial system, and political instability. The conversational format—one host introducing the evidence while the other questions and reacts to it—makes difficult systems concepts approachable without stripping away their seriousness. Its importance to the Great Transition lies primarily in diagnosis: these episodes help listeners see ecological, economic, energy, and social stresses not as isolated problems but as interacting dimensions of a civilization whose underlying assumptions and structures may no longer be viable. In Three Horizons terms, the series provides a particularly strong examination of Horizon 1—why its systems are under growing strain and why simply preserving them may be neither possible nor desirable. That understanding can create the intellectual and emotional space needed to recognize the importance of Horizon 2 experiments and begin imagining a fundamentally different Horizon 3 future.
I want to Learn and I have between 30 and 60 minutes
Source: Kory & Kellan
Functional Sector: Hub, Environment, Economics
Date Added: 2026-09-11
 | Category: Humanity |
 | Format: Podcast |
 | Duration: between 30 and 60 minutes |