This past week’s articles of interest…

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The Environment Is Planet Earth

Getting to Know the Oil System

Optionality Collapse: We’re Investing in a Future That Won’t Exist

Pepe Escobar: Iran & Yemen Escalate — The House of Saud Will Collapse

Europe’s Crisis of Law and Energy — Nord Stream Trial

Mass protests in Europe: is a new anti-war movement emerging?

Trump’s Diesel Deal is a Drop in a $200 Barrel

Inflation Spreads across the Economy, Not Going Back into the Bottle: CPI, Core CPI, Core Services CPI Spike | Wolf Street

Earth’s Vital Signs are in Uncharted Territory

“Investment Bubbles Are A Feature Of Capitalism, Not A Bug”

Peak Oil By Any Other Name

Normalising Overpopulation — Michael Seebeck

The Overshoot Trap: The Unforgiving Physics and Economics of Carbon Removal

Drifting Apart: Worst Case Scenarios

The Atlantic Won’t Give Us an Appointment

Follow the Money: The Political Book Advance Grift

Every Bad Idea Australia Ever Had About the Internet, Now in One Bill

Peter Schiff: Economic Crisis Is Here — Consumer Confidence, Debt & the Dollar

Producer Prices Rise a Hot 1.3 Percent in September — MishTalk

The Collapse Chronicle 10.16.26

#329: The policy bias of flawed statistics | Surplus Energy Economics

Hormuz Blockade: The Threat to Food Security in Asia and Africa

Mining in Space Will Surely Save Us

7 Rungs of a Runaway System: How Civilization Descended Into Crisis

The Green New Deal 2.0 Vs. The Polycrisis — ZNetwork

Oil Is $136 on the Ground. Why Does Wall Street Say $95?

The Promise of False Security — by Larry C Johnson

Confessions of Another Repentant Hydrogen Engineer

🚨 STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED !!! 🔥

4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’ — Media Lens

Two Decades Of Mass Financial Delusion Ends Now

Yellow Vests Return As French Protests Spread And Macron’s Crisis Deepens | ZeroHedge

Video: War and the Global Economy

The Opportunity We Won’t Take — by Elisabeth Robson

All Our Problems Are Caused By Believed Narrative

Incredible Codex — by Nathan Knopp — System Failure

10 Signs We’ll Soon Be Eating Depression-Era Food — and Why Nobody Will Announce It as the Supermarket Sends Us Back to the 1930s

Preparing for the fall of the system ? Introducing the Second Great Escape.

Turns Out the Oil Apocalypse Was Only Postponed

The Biodiversity Blind Spot

The Opportunity We Won’t Take — by Elisabeth Robson

Europe’s Diesel Winter Is Coming, and Washington Is About to Make It Worse

Europe Braces for a Winter Energy Crisis as Gas Reserves Run Low | OilPrice.com

Could This Be the Strongest El Niño in 1,000 Years?

The First 24 Hours Without Electricity

Part II The planetary gut, and thermodynamics of the metabolic-circulation loop

Working Harder Won’t Beat the Money Printer — Here’s What Will — Financial Underground

Humans as planetary parasites — by William E Rees

More new homes won’t make housing affordable. Here’s what will.

Another Round Against Iran Will Break What Is Left of the Gulf

Alberta Overwhelmingly Votes to Stay in Canada in Historic Referendum — MishTalk

I am a decelerationist and you are too

EU NatGas Hits 2022 Crisis Levels As Goldman Warns 150 Euros Could Be Next | ZeroHedge

The Collapse of the Ecosphere

How “V for Vendetta” became more than a movie

Who Runs the World

Larry Johnson: Russia Will Retaliate Against Poland & the Baltic States After St. Petersburg Attack

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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