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welcome to the cotkey ride home for wednesday, August 4th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, the six

countries most likely to survive all-out societal collapse from climate change. Why is snow on the

Alps turning red? And a website that will transport you back to sleepy nights in front of the TV in the early 2000s.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

A new study in the journal's Sustainability has named the top six countries most likely to survive a climate change-fueled societal collapse.

The authors, Allard Jones and Nick King of the Global Sustainability Institute at Cambridge University,

primarily pulled from the University of Notre Dame's Global Adaptation Initiative,

an annual ranking of 181 countries on

their readiness to adapt to climate change. As part of their rubric, Jones and King also considered

the ability of a country to grow its own food, mostly looking at land availability,

if it has energy capacity, especially in terms of wind and solar, and how readily

the country can isolate. Now, this last part seemed over-emphasized and a bit misled to me,

you know, since we're talking about climate change caused destruction and not a pandemic,

seems like the main reason that the authors were so adamant about a need for isolation

was to avoid having to wade into geopolitical issues. And that's a major critique that this study faced.

The New York Times spoke to a number of academics and other experts in climate and societal collapse

who said that the study didn't sufficiently account for military power or governance,

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