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The Thermodynamics of Collapse
Tags: collapse, planet critical, thermodynamics, tim garrett
Latest Posts
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The Bulletin: December 5-11, 2024
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The Bulletin: November 28-December 4
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCII–Sorry, folks, but ‘renewables’ are NOT going to save humanity or the planet.
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCI–The Nexus of Population, Energy, Innovation, and Complexity
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The Bulletin: November 21-27, 2024
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The Bulletin: November 14-20, 2024
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXC–Beyond Collapse: Climate Change and Causality During the Middle Holocene Climatic Transition
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The Bulletin: November 7-13, 2024
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The Bulletin: October 31-November 6, 2024
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXVIX–Problem Solving: Complexity, History, Sustainability
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The Bulletin: October 24-30, 2024
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXVIII–Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns + Significant Stress Surge(s), Part 4
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The Bulletin: October 17-23, 2024
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXVII–Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns + Significant Stress Surge(s), Part 3
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The Bulletin: October 10-16, 2024
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXVI– Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns + Significant Stress Surge(s), Part 2
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The Bulletin: October 3-9, 2024
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXV– Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns + Significant Stress Surge(s), Part 1
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The Bulletin: September 26-October 2, 2024
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It Bears Repeating: Best Of…Volume 2
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The Bulletin: September 19-25, 2024
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The Bulletin: September 13-19
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The Bulletin: September 6-12
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The Bulletin: August 30-September 5, 2024
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The Bulletin: August 23-29, 2024
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The Bulletin: August 16-22, 2024
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXIV– ‘Renewables’: The Great ‘Solution’ (NOT)
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The Bulletin: August 8-15, 2024
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The Bulletin: August 1-7, 2024
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July 12-31 Articles of Interest
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXIII–Complexity and Sustainability
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Taking a Break…
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July 11, Readings
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July 10, 2024 Readings
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July 9, 2024 Readings
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July 8, 2024 Readings
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July 7, 2024 Readings
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July 6, 2024 Readings
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July 5, 2024 Readings
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July 4, 2024 Readings
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July 3, 2024 Readings
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July 2, 2024 Readings
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July 1, 2024 Readings
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June 30, 2024 Readings
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June 29, 2024 Readings
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Scary Stat Alert: The Government Liquidity Index
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The pervasive belief in the eternal progress of mankind has been a crucial, driving element of Western liberalism for generations. It is starting to break down.
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Bring Back Capitalism
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Dollar Doom Is a Slow Burn!
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Odds Are High You’re Going To Need Your Survival Supplies In The Next Few Years
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“Wiki-Gate”: Julian Assange Was Framed by the People Who Supported Him
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Assange Is Free, But Justice Has Not Been Done
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Exposed: How Climate Racketeers Aim to Force Us into Smart Gulags
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Canada, The Unexpected Winner in the Global Oil Boom
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Debt Brakes and Treaty Requirements About to Smash the EU
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U.S. Government Historical Debt
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Chaos is Spreading Everywhere!
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXII–Tech ‘Solutions’ Are Us
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“Julian Is Free!” Assange Released After ‘Time Served’ Plea Deal With DOJ, Departs For Home
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Could We Go Back to the 1950s, Please?
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Common Sense and Memes Are Viruses to the New World Order
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The Advanced Economies are headed for a downfall
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Episode 61: Psychological Warfare in Pharma Marketing ft: Robert Malone
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U.S. Government Debt vs. GDP
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The Dangerous Illusion of Scientific Consensus
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Is Hiring Contractors To Monitor Social Media and Track Dissenters
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The Death of Environmentalism at 20
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EU’s Mass Surveillance Faces Fierce Resistance
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David Stockman on The Ukrainian Border War Folly
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This Is What Collapse Looks Like
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St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) 2024: Marking the Rise of the Global South Century and Decline of Western Economies
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Netanyahu’s “False Flag” Is a “Copy and Paste”: The Pentagon’s Secret “Operation Northwoods”(1962) Directed Against Cuba. “Casualty Lists Would Cause a Helpful Wave of Indignation”
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The Anxiety Economy
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Chemicals from East Palestine derailment spread to 16 US states, data shows
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‘Gold mine’ of century-old wheat varieties could help breeders restore long lost traits
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Selling a Mirage
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NYT: Zelensky’s Government Crushes Press Freedoms in Ukraine
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Our Propagandized Society Is Like A Sick Man Who Doesn’t Know He’s Sick
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Ticking Time Bomb: Space Junk Is Eating Away at Earth’s Ozone Layer
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A Most Dangerous Assumption: Mining the Future to Spend More Today
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How Far Will You Go to Survive?
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Economic Collapse is Stalking us Like Death
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Is a New Cuban Missile Crisis Brewing Over Ukraine? Dangers of Nuclear War. John J. Mearsheimer
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We Approach State Singularity
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Up to Half a Million NATO Soldiers Waiting to Enter Ukraine. “Offensive Oriented”, Preparing for “A Large Confrontation”.
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The Music Just Stopped: Japan Banking Giant Norinchukin To Liquidate $63 Billion In Treasuries & European Bonds To Plug Massive Unrealized Losses
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War On Nation’s Food Supply?: Idaho Restricts Water To 500,000 Acres Of Farmland
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The Thing About AI
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Military Draft Coming? House Passes Measure To Automatically Register Men For Selective Service
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After months of masturbatory freaking out about “the right,” the German government inches towards collapse, as the social democrats realise they’re wildly unpopular and have neither money nor answers
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Video: Bill Gates Caught Telling Inner Circle ‘Global Famine’ Will Make Elites ‘God-Like’
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Omega-3 as Psychiatric Elixir?
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Kiev’s Plan to Store F-16s in NATO States Raises the Risk of World War III
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The Biden Construct Exhorts Spineless Press Corps: ‘Play By the Rules’
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Carol Roth: The Death of Property Rights
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Sense and Nonsense on Petrodollars
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Dollar’s Reign May Not Last Much Longer (If History Is Any Guide)
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Impending System Failure
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In our make-believe politics, the strings pulled by the super-rich are all too visible
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IEA’s Staggering Oil Glut is Staggeringly Unlikely
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The Crises and Sacrifices Yet to Come
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Prepare for the Repricing of Risk Globally
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The Thing About AI
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IEA’s 2030 Outlook – I Don’t Even Know Where To Start
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#280: Not what you’ve been told
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‘Gateway to hell’ in Siberia ‘rapidly expanding’, experts warn as landmark can be seen from space
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40% Surge: Growing Nitrous Oxide Emissions Trigger Scientific Alarm
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A recession indicator with a perfect record has been flashing red for 20 months. It may not be wrong yet.
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Egypt sets hottest June day in African history; historic heatwave hits Cyprus
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Another Blowout Adds to Mystery of Permian Basin Water Pressure
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Could We Do Civilization Better?
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Sparing vs Sharing: The Great Debate Over How to Protect Nature
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Hezbollah Rains Down 160 Rockets On Northern Israel As War Expands
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De-Dollarization Just Accelerated… And You Might Not Even Know About It
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Carbon Credits Are the Biggest Scam Since Indulgences—How You Can Avoid Being Fleeced
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NewsGuard Co-CEO: Lack of Internet Gatekeepers Allows Dangerous Opinions
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The End Of The Petrodollar
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Covid, Economy & Election: QTR On Peak Prosperity
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California Wants Higher Gas Prices and EVs, Virginia Did, But Changed Its Mind
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXI–The Politics of Dancing: The politicians are now dj’s…
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When All Crimes Are Those Against the State
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Science Snippets: Water Disappears as Earth Warms
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The Cautious US Escalation Against Russia Is Developing Not Necessarily to US Advantage
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Vaclav Smil On The Two Cultures And Our “Fully Post-Factual World”
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The Next Generation’s Dilemma: Confronting the Metacrisis
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How to Make Wind Power Sustainable Again
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Alien Planet Earth
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It’s Dangerous to Farm Alone
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Not Knowing
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Kiev’s Plan To Store F-16s In NATO States Raises The Risk Of World War III
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Wikipedia: The Failed Experiment to Democratize Knowledge. “Character Assassinations,” Censorship, an Instrument of Global Corporatism
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“We designed mRNA to kill” – CIA Whistleblower?
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OCOKA – Advanced Terrain Analysis Through a Tactical Lens
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Earth breaks heat and CO₂ records once again: ‘Our planet is trying to tell us something,’ officials say
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Retail Bloodbath: More Than 2,600 Store Closings Have Been Announced So Far In 2024
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Trudeau Pushes Online Censorship Bill To “Protect” People From “Misinformation”
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If Wishes Were Fishes — a Teachable Intermezzo
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Banking Crisis, Stage Two
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Whiff After Whiff
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Moving from Naive to Authentic Progress: A Vision for Betterment
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What if People just stopped voting?
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Russia’s Oil and Gas Revenues Surged by 73.5% in January-May
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Gold & Oil: Understanding Rather than Fearing Change
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Seriously… Governments around the world are telling citizens to prepare for war
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N-wrecked
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Bird Flu Triggers Supply Chain Snarls In Dairy Industry As “Farmers Increasingly Culled Cows”
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Are They TRYING to Start a Nuclear War?
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What Have We Gotten Done?
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A Second-Quarter Recession This Year Looks Increasingly Likely
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Putin warns West over Ukraine armaments, nuclear arsenal
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IEA: Clean energy investment to reach $2 trillion in 2024
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Predicting Financial Collapse (and what to do about it)
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Scientists sound the alarm on pharmaceutical pollution crisis
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US Targets Journalists Who Criticize Administration’s Foreign Policy
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The Ultimate Killer: Pollution Deadlier Than War, Terrorism, and Major Diseases
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Power outage-causing storms are on the rise. That’s already impacting food insecurity
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The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt?
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Oceans face ‘triple threat’ of extreme heat, oxygen loss and acidification
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Will the Revolution Be Televised?
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EU Plans Major Expansion of Mass Surveillance, MEP Claims