The Bulletin: March 11-17, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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The Coup de Grâce for Humans (and all species?)
An arc of future Earth – by Chris Smaje – Chris’s Substack
Nobody Gives a Damn About Climate Change Anymore — Or So The Story Goes
JPMorgan Limits Lending To Private Credit Groups After Marking Down Loan Collateral | ZeroHedge
The Catabolic Correction: Redefining Carrying Capacity (K) at the Entropic Event Horizon
Paging Nostradamus: You Have a Margin Call
Scientists DUMP 65,000 Litres Of CHEMICALS Into Ocean In Geoengineering Experiment – modernity
The Great Phanerozoic Cycle: Extinctions and Biodiversity
On Being a “Doomer” (2026 Update) – by Prof. Eliot Jacobson
What If the Ultimate Extinction Plan Is Failing?
Not ‘a litre of oil’ to pass Strait of Hormuz, expect $200 price tag: Iran
Feeding The Future | Nicole Negowetti
Deutsche Bank Dumps After Flagging $30 Billion Exposure To Private Credit<!– –> | ZeroHedge
Breaking History Ep. 140: Iran War, Energy Politics, and the Battle Over the Middle East Narrative
When the Future No Longer Waits – by Ernesto Van Peborgh
No, 400 Million Barrels Isn’t Enough
RED ALERT: Something Big Just Happened at BlackRock | Daily Pulse
Energy Inflation for Americans | Wolf Street
The Iran War: A World-Changing Event | Art Berman
AI Predicts 78 Days To Cactus With Hormuz Closed
Uncomfortable Questions in Unsettled Times: Iran Effects, Local Preparedness, and End of Empire?
Is Hormuz Chokehold Foretaste Of Peak Oil?
The Bubble, the War, and the Coming Crash
The New Gulf War: Epic Fubar Goes Global
March, 13: Schrödinger’s war – by No1
Canada’s Bill C-22 Mandates Mass Metadata Surveillance of Canadians
This Polycrisis Is Unique – Charles Hugh Smith’s Substack
Burning the Lifeboats to Keep the Lights On
Heads-up: Food crisis incoming
Hormuz disruption: we ain’t seen nothing yet (part 2)
British Tourist Faces Prison Sentence in UAE for Filming Iranian Missiles – News From Antiwar.com
Sensemaking: Part 3 – The New Unhinged
The Myth of the Oil Glut Is Dead | OilPrice.com
Can Collapse Be Avoided? Part I: Learning from the Biosphere How to Handle Inequality
Sell Now: Here’s Why – Charles Hugh Smith’s Substack
The Iran War Could Collapse the United States in the Next Six Months
The Collapse Chronicle 03.15.26
The Magic of Plato – by Nathan Knopp – System Failure
When All the Buffers Empty – by Malte – Anima Mundi
CIA Prepares Criminal Referral of Tucker Carlson, as Israel and its Loyalists Demand His Arrest
Links of the Month: March 2026 | how to save the world
NY state proposal to end the application of sludge (sewage waste) on land used for food crops
The low-tech brilliance of Iranian design – by TheLastFarm
Hormuz Chokepoint Claims Next Victim: World’s Largest Aluminum Smelter Cuts Capacity | ZeroHedge
Iran war updates: Tehran says ready for long war, Israel expands strikes | News | Al Jazeera
Peak Food: Is the Human Population Going to Collapse?
Supply chain layoffs spread across warehouses, factories and rail terminals – FreightWaves
Growth at All Costs – by Matt Orsagh
Top Oil Expert Warns Of ‘Never Before Seen’ Oil Shock | Art Berman
Jeffrey Sachs: Iran War Could Escalate Into Nuclear War
Cuba’s national electric grid collapses, leaving millions without power | Reuters
US Cities Face Water Stress Amid Crumbling Infrastructure | ZeroHedge
Russia’s Rumored Telegram Block Appears Underway As Outage Reports Surge | ZeroHedge
How New Zealand Could Build a Fair Rationing System in Eight Weeks
’m An Australian Wholesale Fuel Trader
Science Snippets: Trace Amounts Can Produce Large Effects
The Consequences of Closing the Straits of Hormuz
Declaring War—on the Environment – by Lyle Lewis
Iran “Starts New Phase Of Oil War” After Energy Production Hit | ZeroHedge
10-18 Days Until Australia Runs Dry
living with collapse | 1. Jumping Ship
THE NITROGEN TRAP – Shanaka Anslem Perera
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once – by No1
Up to our Waists in Dead Canaries – by Prof. Eliot Jacobson
Invading a Thermodynamic Black Hole: The Biophysics of the Cuban Grid Collapse
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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