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The Bulletin: August 6–12, 2026
The Bulletin: August 6–12, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. BP Retreats Further From Green Energy With Archaea Sale | ZeroHedge How Economic Power Has Shifted Over The Past 200 Years | ZeroHedge De-industrialization | Damn the Matrix The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIV–Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline, Part 1
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIV–Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline, Part 1 US Changes in Real Income Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline On the heels of my two-part Contemplation that took a look at the supply-side dynamics of hydrocarbons–particularly oil–and the consequences of the geologic reality for our global, industrial […]
The Bulletin: July 29-August 5, 2026
The Bulletin: July 29-August 5, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. US Corn Conditions Suffer Sharpest Deterioration In Three Years, Fueling Food Inflation Fear | ZeroHedge A Rights Revolution For Nature Exercise works for depression. So why isn’t it treated like real medicine? […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIII-Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 2
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIII- Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 2 Oil Production’s Seneca Cliff In Part One of this Contemplation (see: Website Medium Substack), I attempted to lay out the foundational components of humanity’s hydrocarbon predicament by looking at the geologic, energetic, and systemic realities. I asserted that hydrocarbons are not just one […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLII–Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 1
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLII–Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 1 The Forgotten Foundation My most recent Contemplations have discussed the foundational bases of modernity’s predicament: ecological overshoot, physical limits to growth, the maximum power principle, the mind over reality transition, progress traps, and wetiko. I’ve risked minimising what is perhaps one of our most crucial material aspects in […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLI–The Celebration of Our Own Undoing, Part 2
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLI–The Celebration of Our Own Undoing, Part 2 discoverthewetiko.com In Part 1 (see: Website, Medium, Substack), I attempted to lay the groundwork for understanding our predicament. I relied on some of the key scientists and researchers I have read. William Catton’s Overshoot argues that our species has greatly overshot the carrying capacity of our […]
The Bulletin: July 15–21, 2026
The Bulletin: July 15–21, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Controlling the World Island I’m Being Fined $49,890.13 for Defending a Sacred Site Evolutionary Shrinkflation — The George Tsakraklides View Why the Media Needs Objectivity — Lean Out with Tara Henley The Bigger Condo […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCL–Smoke Without Borders: Politicians Without Conscience
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCL–Smoke Without Borders: Politicians Without Conscience Had some “quality” indoor time the past few days as wildfire smoke made it dangerous to be outside — or in my gardens — here north of Toronto. And rather than get to the myriad of chores I could have been doing in the house, […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLIX–The Celebration of Our Own Undoing, Part 1
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLIX– The Celebration of Our Own Undoing, Part 1 The Mechanics of Our Predicament We are peculiar creatures, we humans. I have spent much of my recent years — since that jarring viewing of Collapse more than fifteen years ago — watching our species with a mixture of bewilderment and a strange, sorrowful […]
The Bulletin: July 8–14, 2026
The Bulletin: July 8–14, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Decline on the World Stage — global geopolitics Could there be some beauty in collapse? — Prof Jem Bendell Your Phone Is Now Your Suitcase: Why Every U.S. Traveler Should Prepare for a Border […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLVIII–Monetary Systems, Thermodynamics, and Ecological Overshoot, Part 2.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLVIII–Monetary Systems, Thermodynamics, and Ecological Overshoot, Part 2. “…the economy is an energy system, and not a financial one. Money is a human artefact used to exchange the goods and services that constitute economic output, but all of these are products of energy. Our economic history is a narrative of how […]
The Bulletin: July 1–7, 2026
The Bulletin: July 1–7, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Largest US Power Grid On Verge Of Cracking Due To Historic Heat Dome | ZeroHedge Copper Demand Surges, But Supply Deficit Is Hard To Solve, Expert Says | ZeroHedge Risk and AI: It’s […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLVII–Monetary Systems, Thermodynamics, and Ecological Overshoot, Part 1.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLVII–Monetary Systems, Thermodynamics, and Ecological Overshoot, Part 1. Money, it’s a crime Share it fairly, but don’t take a slice of my pie Money, so they say Is the root of evil today -Pink Floyd, Money (1973) One of the interests I’ve developed since falling down the rabbit’s hole of peak oil, societal collapse, and ecological […]
The Bulletin: June 24–30, 2026
The Bulletin: June 24–30, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. EXCLUSIVE: Secret Leak Suggests Elites Are Planning a New War | Daily Pulse Borrowed Time: The ‘Extend and Pretend’ Economy Must End Organic agriculture at crossroads — by Gunnar Rundgren Accepting Loss as Fair […]
