The Bulletin: April 1-7, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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Environmental Law & Climate Change | Advisement
A Victory On Paper, A Scarred Gulf | Collapse of Industrial Civilization
10 Things That Disappear First When Panic Buying Starts
Survival Gardening: Drying Eggshells To Grow Beautiful Tomatoes
We built a fragile society – by Jonathan Tonkin
We have declared war on nature – and it’s putting us all in danger
Scrambling for Energy Security: Navigating Unstable Energy Supplies Amidst Global Conflict
The Iran War Revealed the End of Petroleum Civilization
Plastic Pollution – Should We Worry?
America’s Half-Trillion-Dollar Sewage Problem | ZeroHedge
Grand Strategy for the Collapse Era
People Are Questioning Growth At Any Costs
Surveilling Swine. George Orwell and Real Fake News – Global Research
Losing the Iran War May Be the Best Outcome Fro the World
Australia Considers Emergency Powers to Protect Domestic Gas Supply | OilPrice.com
Supply Chain Wars – Grace Blakeley
Uncomfortable Questions for Unsettled Times: A World at the Edge of Change
Regenerative Design in a Time of Collapse
Private Credit Problems Ending the Party – Ed Dowd | Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog
War Abroad and Authoritarianism At Home
Iran War: A Light At The End of Tunnel?
The Mass Media Are Evil But They’re Also Really Dumb, And Other Notes
America’s energy independence – by No1
Big Solar Comes for My Home County – Energy Bad Boys
The Year the West Runs Out of Slack – by Lyle Lewis
The Modern Survival Retreat and MAGs
America’s Oil Safety Net Is Gone Courtesy Of Hormuz
The Real Threat From The Iran War Hits Farmers, Not Fuel Pumps | ZeroHedge
Reprise: Renewable Energy Does Not Exist
Czech government imposes fuel price cap and cuts diesel tax to combat surging costs at the pump
What Happens in the First 72 Hours of a Cyberattack on North America
Why The War in Iran Could Trigger the Worst Global Food Crisis Since the 1970s
Trump warns ‘crazy bastards’ in Iran to open ‘fuckin’ strait’ in Truth Social rant | Middle East Eye
A Future History of Oil – The George Tsakraklides View
When Will the Energy Shock Hit the Markets?
The Three Tightening Strands Of A Fragile World | Collapse of Industrial Civilization
Free Download: Creating a Survival Pantry on a Budget One-Pager
Farming 101 – by No1 – Gold and Geopolitics
Another Day, Another Private Credit Fund Takes A Shit
Raw Materials, Economic Power, and the World Wars Of Yesterday and Today
Laws of water part 2 : bridging hydrology, climate, and ecorestoration with the Budkyo curve
Is the War In Iran About to Become Apocalyptic? (w/ Trita Parsi) | The Chris Hedges Report
Don’t Grow Food – by Shane – Recombination Nation
Why a shift to a service economy doesn’t reduce resource use
The Invisible Architecture of Power Behind The Global Conflicts
living with collapse | 4. How I’m StrategizinglScience Snippets: Can World’s Forests Solve Climate Disaster?
lWhat’s Not “Clean” about Solar Panels
lAre You Prepared for Your World to Be Totally Different Tomorrow Morning? Trump Says it Will Be … Forever!
lNaphtha: The Hidden Bottleneck in the “Everything Crisis”
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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