{"id":40119,"date":"2025-01-11T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=40119"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:32:47","slug":"breakdown-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2025\/01\/11\/breakdown-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Breakdown-0.mp3\"> Breakdown-0.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Breakdown-0.mp4\"> Breakdown-0.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Breakdown-I.mp3\"> Breakdown-I.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Breakdown-I.mp4\"> Breakdown-I.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Breakdown-II.mp3\"> Breakdown-II.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Breakdown-II.mp4\"> Breakdown-II.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Breakdown-Unplugged-Underground-XIII.mp3\"> Breakdown-Unplugged-Underground-XIII.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Breakdown-Unplugged-Underground-XIII.mp4\"> Breakdown-Unplugged-Underground-XIII.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/Breakdown-intro.mp3\"> Breakdown-intro.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nBreakdown (down, ditty, down)<br \/>\nYou breakdown (down, down, down)<br \/>\nLook around<br \/>\nBreakdown<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nDespair and Division<br \/>\n(Due to indecision)<br \/>\nRising inequality<br \/>\n(From sea to see)<br \/>\nResource scarcity<br \/>\n(Oh, woe is me)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve entered the Age:<br \/>\n&#8220;Loss of Cultural Heritage&#8221;<br \/>\n(From sea to shining sea)<br \/>\nA K A &#8212; We used to see<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nYou breakdown (down, down, down)<br \/>\nLook around<br \/>\nBreakdown<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nAncient landmarks lost<br \/>\n(A fraction of the cost)<br \/>\nEntire communities<br \/>\n(Lost into the seas)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nBreakdown (Break down, down)<br \/>\nYou breakdown (down, down, down)<br \/>\nLook around<br \/>\nBreakdown<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nDespair and Division<br \/>\n(Due to indecision)<br \/>\nRising inequality<br \/>\n(From sea to see)<br \/>\nResource scarcity<br \/>\n(Oh, woe is me)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nBreakdown (Break down, down)<br \/>\nYou breakdown (down, down, down)<br \/>\nLook around<br \/>\nBreakdown<\/p>\n<p>A SCIENCE NOTE<br \/>\nIf humans continue to accelerate climate change unchecked, the &#8220;end of times&#8221; could manifest as a series of interconnected crises that severely impact the planet&#8217;s ecosystems, human societies, and global stability. Here&#8217;s a potential scenario:<\/p>\n<h3>6. <strong>Social and Cultural Breakdown<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Loss of Cultural Heritage<\/strong>: Coastal cities, ancient landmarks, and entire communities could be lost to rising seas and natural disasters.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Despair and Division<\/strong>: Rising inequality and resource scarcity could create deep societal divides, with many losing hope for the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Final Picture<\/h3>\n<p>A planet with pockets of habitable zones amid vast wastelands of extreme weather, uninhabitable regions, and collapsing ecosystems. Humanity would face challenges to its very survival, struggling to maintain civilization in a world that has become increasingly hostile due to its own actions.<\/p>\n<p>This dire scenario underscores the urgency of taking bold action to mitigate climate change now. Every fraction of a degree of warming we prevent can save lives, preserve ecosystems, and ensure a more stable future.<\/p>\n<p><b> Our <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/Chaos-Theory-and-Climate-Change.html\">updated climate model<\/a>, now integrating complex social-ecological factors, shows that global temperatures could rise by up to 9\u00b0C within this century &#8212; far beyond previous predictions of a 4\u00b0C rise over the next thousand years.<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/tag\/comprehend-the-end\/\">ComprehEnd&#8230; the End<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/the-end\/\">The End<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/\">The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/\">MegaEpix Enormous<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakdown-0.mp3 Breakdown-0.mp4 Breakdown-I.mp3 Breakdown-I.mp4 Breakdown-II.mp3 Breakdown-II.mp4 Breakdown-Unplugged-Underground-XIII.mp3 Breakdown-Unplugged-Underground-XIII.mp4 Breakdown-intro.mp3 [Intro] Breakdown (down, ditty, down) You breakdown (down, down, down) Look around Breakdown [Bridge] Despair and Division (Due to indecision) Rising inequality (From sea to see) Resource scarcity (Oh, woe is me) [Verse 1] We&#8217;ve entered the Age: &#8220;Loss of Cultural Heritage&#8221; (From sea to shining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,9,14,3955,25],"tags":[163,4078,546,563],"class_list":["post-40119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-chaos-theory","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-megaepix-enormous","category-the-end","tag-climate-change","tag-comprehend-the-end","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40403,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40119\/revisions\/40403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}