The Bulletin: June 3-9, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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Why Another Oil Spike Isn’t Off the Table
Oil – The Master Resource – New Zealand Energy
It’s NOT the Drought: The Real Reason Lake Mead Lost 100 Feet!
Oil Prices Hold Gains As Gasoline Stocks Hit 12 Year Lows, Cushing ‘Tank Bottoms’ Loom | ZeroHedge
Lest We Forget, Private Credit Is Still Imploding
Regression to the norm: How to manage accommodation in system change efforts
Back to the Land: Why Restoring Earth’s Capacity Will Take All of Us
The Strait of Hormuz Closed When Insurance Companies Dropped a Giant Bomb
A Personal History of CO₂ – by Prof. Eliot Jacobson
The Collapse Chronicle 06.04.26
MarketWatch: Why the Current Oil Crisis Could Haunt Markets for Years
Concerning Interest In Redefining “Inflation”
The Energy Crunch Is Starting To Bite
Philly Cops Admit That They’re Tracking “First Amendment Activity” Critical of AI
The population conundrum – by William E Rees
Paradigms and Revolutions in Science – by Steve Keen
The Energy Shock of the 14th Century
Could it be That Trump and Willis are Closet Degrowthers?
The rsync Singularity: AI, ‘Worse is Better’, and the Thermodynamics of Software Collapse
How to Think About the Future (Part 3): Uphill Futures in a Downhill World
On The Possibility of World War III…
THE HUNGER GAP IS COMING (2 of 2) – by Margi Prideaux, PhD
Inspirational Collapses? Learning from the civilisations that tried to break down well – resilience
Top Economist: The Unthinkable Is About to Happen to the Financial System
Seyed M. Marandi: Hormuz Toll, Strike On Kuwait, Israel Decline & Iranian Nuclear Bomb?
The Pollution We Breathe Without Seeing – by Lyle Lewis
Recycling Plastics: the Great Scam – by Ugo Bardi
Devouring the Future – by Nathan Knopp – System Failure
Our Oil Savings Account is Dwindling
Protesters target NV Energy at electric utility conference as anger over affordability rises
WAR III Has No Battlefield: The Supply-Chain War
The Societal Blink Reflex – by Steven J. Newbury
The Battle For Civilization is Raging
A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
We Are Being Warned That A “Godzilla El Niño” Could Absolutely Devastate Global Food Production
The economic path ahead: four or two things to think about for surviving the future
The Countdown to a Major Oil Price Surge Has Begun | OilPrice.com
Diesel Powered Pellets – New Zealand Energy
Hormuz: A Logistics Crisis, Not Yet an Inventory Crisis | Art Berman
Fuel, Food, and Inflation: The Problems Continue
[Essay] How to Think About the Future (Part 2): Four Variables Shaping the Coming Decades
A Lawful Anarchist | Do the Math
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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