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The Bulletin: October 8-14, 2025
The Bulletin: October 8-14, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Thermodynamic drag It’s Already Started: The Oil Crisis They Said Would Never Happen As Colorado River Nears Collapse, It Faces Leadership, Transparency ‘Crisis,’ Environmentalists Warn – Inside Climate News From Fear to […]
The Bulletin: October 1-7, 2025
The Bulletin: October 1-7, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. EIA Data Shows Record U.S. Oil Output After Major Upward Revision | OilPrice.com Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – Stockholm Resilience Centre How To Keep Warm If You’re Temporarily Homeless […]
The Bulletin: September 10-16, 2025
The Bulletin: September 10-16, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Beyond Surplus: Rethinking How Civilizations Rose | Art Berman Why There Will Be No Energy Transition | by Eric Lee | Sep, 2025 | Medium Update: Why We Need Forests Renewables, carbon […]
The Bulletin: August 27-September 2, 2025
The Bulletin: August 27-September 2, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Experts Warn The Internet Will Go Down In A Big Way — And You’d Better Be Ready Bioregioning Is Our Future – resilience Forest Fires: The Disheartening Post of the Day […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXII–A ‘Great Simplification’ Is On Our Doorstep, Redux
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXII–A ‘Great Simplification’ Is On Our Doorstep, Redux klementoninvesting.substack.com A couple of months ago, I penned an article summarising a handful of resources that had helped to inform and guide my thinking on our various predicaments. Those five resources were just a sampling of the ones I’ve been exposed to over […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CV–That Uncertain Road, Part 2
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CV–That Uncertain Road, Part 2 March 6, 2023 (original posting date) Teotihuacan, Mexico. (1988) Photo by author. That Uncertain Road, Part 2 The set of possible futures includes a great variety of paths. There may be abrupt collapse; it is also possible there may be a smooth transition to sustainability. But […]
The Bulletin: August 20-26, 2025
The Bulletin: August 20-26, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. The Machine that Is Eating the Earth – by David Haggith Global Nuclear Power Hits Record High as Asia Surges Ahead | OilPrice.com Why Oil Prices Don’t Rise To Consistently High […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXI–Collapse, Environment, and Society
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXI–Collapse, Environment, and Society Collapse, Environment, and Society is a 2012 article by geographer Karl Butzer (see: here and here) whose academic career focussed upon the relationship between humans and their environment. In this article (summarised in more detail below), Butzer takes issue with often oversimplified narratives regarding societal ‘collapse’. He argues that societal decline […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCX–Keep Calm and Carry On… Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 3
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCX–Keep Calm and Carry On… Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 3 In Parts 1 (Website Medium Substack) and 2 (Website Medium Substack) of this multipart Contemplation I present the case that humanity’s psychological defense mechanisms (especially denial, bargaining, and techno-optimism) are preventing most from becoming aware of and/or better understanding the predicaments […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCIX– Keep Calm and Carry On… Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 2
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCIX– Keep Calm and Carry On… Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 2 CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. In Part 1 of this Contemplation (Website Medium Substack) I discuss how our species seems to be responding to the signals our planet and […]
The Bulletin: July 23-29, 2025
The Bulletin: July 23-29, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Brace For Soaring Electricity Bills: Biggest US Power Grid Sets Power Costs At Record High To Feed AI | ZeroHedge Plant, Persist, Prevail: Collective Grower Wisdom (#1) Iran’s President ‘Ready’ For War […]
The Bulletin: July 16-22, 2025
The Bulletin: July 16-22, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Is There Enough Water to Quench the Thirst of AI Super Data Centers? | The Epoch Times Let me explain exactly what is going on with Bayer’s effort to enact a wide-ranging […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCVII–‘Collapse’: It May Not Be What You Think It Is.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCVII– ‘Collapse’: It May Not Be What You Think It Is. cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net This Contemplation is the result of my beginning to put together a different one that’s focussing upon an academic article I’ve been reading (Collapse, Environment, and Society) but that got me thinking about the academic ‘debate’ regarding what ‘societal […]
The Bulletin: June 19-25, 2025
The Bulletin: June 19-25, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950 A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally. – The New York Times IEA Doubles Down On Peak Oil […]
