The Bulletin: February 11-17, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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Requiem For An Oil Glut | Art Berman
Our Leaders Couldn’t Fix Our Problems If They Wanted To (And They Don’t Want To)
Life Before Petroleum – by Ugo Bardi – Chimeras
Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Economic Coercion & the Death of the Dollar
The Misunderstood History of CO2: The Science Behind Earth’s Most Controversial Molecule
India’s Coal Use Could Double by 2050 | OilPrice.com
Lithium: The “Miracle” Mineral | Javiera Barandiaran
Factory Farming Water Pollution Is Poisoning U.S. Rivers – One Green Planet
Narrative Hegemony and the Architecture of Manufacturing
Out of Gas – by Kathleen McCroskey – Limits to Progress
Switzerland to vote on capping its population at 10 million | The Independent
The Affordability Crisis and the UniParty’s Inflation Shell Game
2nd US Aircraft Carrier Rerouted From Caribbean To Mideast As Iran In Crosshairs | ZeroHedge
Innovation In a Post-Growth Economy: Incentives Beyond the Profit Motive – ZNetwork
India Explores Gas Power Boost to Stabilize Grid During Peak Hours | OilPrice.com
Collapse: Living Without the Future We Were Promised
Solar’s Land Use Problem Is Much Worse Than You Think
Stop Fighting Your Neighbor: The Mechanics of State Power and How to Opt Out | Mises Institute
New Zealand’s 2026 Energy Stock Take
Saudi Arabia Has The “BOMB” – Global geopolitics
Iran war described as ‘biggest opportunity’ at US oil lobby’s DC summit
The math of farming no longer works – Collapse Life
Living well within limits – by Vlad Bunea
Judgement Day! – by Nathan Knopp – System Failure
The Greatest Robbery in Financial History Continues to Play Out in the Silver Market
The Science Behind Earth’s Most Controversial Molecule with Peter Brannen | TGS 210
Diesel vs EV vs Hydrogen vs LPG/CNG vs Biodiesel – Can We Ever Ditch Big Diesels?
Why This Is My Last Substack Post – by J. Thomas Dunn
Understanding ruptures and bifurcations in human history (a reading list)
What If: Massive Catastrophic Grid Failure
Everyone wants a village, and some of us (really, really) want to be a villager
What If Everything You Were Told About Progress Is Wrong?
The Anti-Future or Civilization’s Next Decade
The Increasing Attacks on Francesca Albanese Presage a New Dark Age
Strait Showdown: Iran Launches “Smart Control” Exercise At Oil Transit Point | ZeroHedge
Science Snippets: Yucatan Cave Explain Collapse of Mayan Civilization
Shell Names the Risks and Discounts Them to Zero | Art Berman
Homestead Gardening: Seed Types – Heirloom, Hybrid, and GMO
New Hydro-geopolitical Developments in the 21st Century. Water Resources – Global Research
Self-Harming Civilizations: Ancestral Trauma and the Denial of Death
SASOL, the Nazis, and the Thermodynamics of Defeat
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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