Mt Etna Is Not The Only Volcano In Italy That Threatens

This one is a supervolcano:

A long-quiet yet huge supervolcano that lies under 500,000 people in Italy may be waking up and approaching a “critical state,” scientists report this week in the journal Nature Communications.

Based on physical measurements and computer modeling, “we propose that magma could be approaching the CDP [critical degassing pressure] at Campi Flegrei, a volcano in the metropolitan area of Naples, one of the most densely inhabited areas in the world, and where accelerating deformation and heating are currently being observed,” wrote the scientists—who are led by Giovanni Chiodini of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics in Rome.

A sudden release of hot magmatic gasses is possible in the near future, which could trigger a large eruption, the scientists warn. Yet the timing of any possible eruption is unknown and is currently not possible to predict.

In response to the news, Italy’s government has raised the volcano’s threat level from green to yellow, or from quiet to requires scientific monitoring. In other words, the government is urging a measured response to the study, followed by additional scientific work

I’m sure all the Muslim refugees will selflessly join with all of Europe to help rebuild Western Civilization. Obviously they would not all just flee to family back in their home nations, or look for free resources somewhere else and just leave Europe in ruins.

It is tempting to look at the myriad of cataclysmic economic situations, and assume one of the weak points there will be where the Apocalypse begins. But there are other means, from pandemic to natural disaster, all of which could kick off a nice Apocalypse.

There is a strange synchronicity to apocalypses. Economic collapses, climate collapses, natural/geological disasters, pandemics, wars, and other calamities all seem to coalesce together. I suspect there is something in human nature as societies go r, that uses all of our powers of intellect and manipulation for forestalling apocalypses, by sacrificing future advantage for temporary gain. Given our intellectual abilities, this allows the apocalypses to be forestalled almost in perpetuity, until a natural geological disaster occurs and forces it, bringing down everything that was artificially propped up, all at once.

And there does appear to be something geological going on, as Big Wobble points out:

Add in solar cycles heading toward a cooling cycle, which is probably related to all of it, and it would seem that the plentiful weak points in the economy are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to ways for everything to come down catastrophically.

That Apocalypse is coming. It is only a question of when.

Spread r/K Theory, because mortal salience is inevitable