The Bulletin: September 10-16, 2025
This past week’s articles of interest…
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Beyond Surplus: Rethinking How Civilizations Rose | Art Berman
Why There Will Be No Energy Transition | by Eric Lee | Sep, 2025 | Medium
Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Russia-Ukraine War Is a Jockey Between Two World Orders
How Did We Get Into This Mess Anyway? | how to save the world
Geoengineering = Peak Technohopium
EU Chat Control 2.0: Experts Warn Against Encryption Surveillance Law
China-Russia Pipeline Seen Displacing One-Third of LNG Imports, Analysts Warn | OilPrice.com
Big AG Is Threatening New Mexico’s Water Supply
Alex Krainer: Economic Collapse and Civil War Fears
These Climate Hacks To Save the Poles Could Totally Backfire
Decades Old Waste Barrels Are Creating Toxic Dead Zones Off LA’s Coast
Is Earth’s climate in a state of ‘termination shock’? | New Scientist
France in Flames As the ‘Block Everything’ Protest Movement Sweeps the Country – PJ Media
CPI Inflation Dishes Up another Nasty Surprise, as it Tends to Do | Wolf Street
The Truth About How We Sacrifice People For Progress
Humans and Their Ecological Space
The Jenga Tower Economy Is Starting To Topple
Precarity and the Point of No Return
“Canada: The Industrial Implosion” v. the United States | Wolf Street
The Unholy Sin Of Carbon Offsetting
The Federal Deficit Surges again as Trump Spending Accelerates | Mises Institute
Poland sends 40,000 troops to border amid Russia tension
Carbon Storage Was Never A Solution
How the Sustainability Movement Lost Its Way | Ralph Thurm
The End Of The Road – The Honest Sorcerer
Human civilization depends on permafrost
“I’ve Seen States Collapse; Now I See It Happening Here” | naked capitalism
Your home has a 1 in 4 chance of being at severe risk from extreme weather | Grist
Me, the collapsnik!? – by Gunnar Rundgren
Science Snippets: Mass Extinction Event Targets Ocean Life
If Not Now, it Will Come Later – by Ugo Bardi
When Empires Die – International Man
Insights From the Lotka-Volterra Model
We are inhaling stupidity: carbon dioxide threatens our brains
Inflation and Embezzlement | Mises Institute
It’s Time to Stop Eating Plastic. Start by Trashing These 7 Items Full of Microplastics – CNET
Climate change is accelerating, scientists find in ‘grim’ report
Economists Predict When the US Economy Will Crash, THIS is the Date
Is the 6ME Hyperbole? | Do the Math
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