The Bulletin: October 8-14, 2025
This past week’s articles of interest…
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It’s Already Started: The Oil Crisis They Said Would Never Happen
From Fear to Fidelity: How to Live Well in the Return of Normal History
Is the U.S. Electric Grid Stable? Policy, Renewables, and Who Is Responsible If Something Goes Wrong
Societal Collapse ‘On Schedule’ According To 1972 MIT Study – YouTube
Nexus Notes – Updated Planetary Boundaries special edition
Pollinator Garden Update: Improving Soil, Using the Most Prolific Plants
Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit – Carbon Brief
Breaking the Industrial Food System
Empire comes home to the U.S. – by Patrick Mazza
Unconventional Wisdom: A Wide-Boundary Conversation About Oil
Senator Warns of Trump’s Secret Watchlist for Americans
#311: Putting it together, part two | Surplus Energy Economics
Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.
What We Can Learn About Survival From the Show Alone
When Data Becomes Dogma: The Making of Climate Orthodoxy – Global Research
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Look Out Below
Is it Really Different this Time? | Wolf Street
What Can We Do About The Agrarian Collapse? | ZeroHedge
The Fifth Joint Point: When Justification Sees Itself
#312: A stroll along Revolution Street | Surplus Energy Economics
How Journalists Grease the Skids for Worthless Corporate Handouts
More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis
Rare Blackouts Hit Southern Odessa Region Amid Russia’s Pre-Winter Strikes | ZeroHedge
Plague in Rome – by Nathan Knopp – System Failure
The Mythical Return to Coal – The Honest Sorcerer
Signs of Collapse: The Implosion of ‘Europe’ | how to save the world
Japan continues to discharge treated water from Fukushima nuclear disaster site
The Nobel Prize goes to… war on Venezuela
Science Snippets: More Thunderstorms in Our Warming World
A New Dark Age – by Matt Orsagh – Degrowth is the Answer
Canada’s Privacy Watchdog Not Consulted on Bill C-8, Enabling Secret Internet & Phone Shutdowns
US Intelligence Has Been Enabling Ukraine’s Destruction Of Russian Energy Sites | ZeroHedge
“We’re In Wars”: Ray Dalio Warns Of ‘Civil War’ & Soaring Debt | ZeroHedge
‘Very troubling’: AI’s self-investment spree sets off bubble alarms on Wall Street
Hidden, supercharged ‘thermostat’ may cause Earth to overcorrect for climate change | Live Science
Our fractured future – by Jan Andrew Bloxham
The Psychology Of Long-Term Survival
Science Snippets: Peak Food Production Draws Near
The planetary boundaries of green water : Lan Wang-Erlandsson
Leak: Feds Think Protests Hide Terrorism
How Processed Food Became America’s Number One Health Risk.
The Year When Everything Happens in No Particular Order
The Big Lie: America Has Defaulted on Its Debt Five Times—And a Sixth May Be Imminent
Hong Kong to Install 60,000 AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras by 2028
PLEASE NOTE: This list is just ‘of interest’. It does not mean I personally endorse or agree with the content of a listed article; in fact, some I certainly do not agree with. But these are all part and parcel of stories told by our species about our world. Some are published by the authors for ‘educational’ and/or ‘informational’ purposes, some are for far more nefarious ‘narrative management’ ones–you, the reader, can decide which is which. Keep in mind a relevant passage from a Bill Rees paper: “We begin with a reminder that humans are storytellers by nature. We socially construct complex sets of facts, beliefs, and values that guide how we operate in the world. Indeed, humans act out of their socially constructed narratives as if they were real. All political ideologies, religious doctrines, economic paradigms, cultural narratives—even scientific theories—are socially constructed “stories” that may or may not accurately reflect any aspect of reality they purport to represent. Once a particular construct has taken hold, its adherents are likely to treat it more seriously than opposing evidence from an alternate conceptual framework.”
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