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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 […]

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The Bulletin: September 17-23, 2025

The Bulletin: September 17-23, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. How to think about the prospects of truly green growth | Aeon Essays UN Sessions on Solar Geoengineering Trigger Unease – Inside Climate News Book Review: Small is Beautiful – by Shane […]

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The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025

The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. The Disruptor: William Rees Knows How to Save the World Slow down or die (degrowth, collapse, strategy) Collapse and the Consensus Trance What Happens After Humans Go Extinct How Water Shapes Our […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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The Bulletin: August 13-19, 2025

The Bulletin: August 13-19, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Science Snippets: Connecting War with Climate Change The Forgotten Skills of Dying and Grieving Well: How Engaging with Loss Can Help Us Live More Fully You Can’t Make This Shit Up – […]

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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 […]

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The Bulletin: July 30-August 5, 2025

The Bulletin: July 30-August 5, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. About Spreading Lies Severe Drought Threatens 25% of Crops in Russia’s Agricultural Heartland – The Moscow Times Green transition: sustainable for whom? | Meer Nothing Can Stop This Train: Our Financial […]

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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 […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCVIII–Keep Calm and Carry On…Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 1

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCVIII–Keep Calm and Carry On…Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 1 Human cognition and the many psychological mechanisms that impact our species’ comprehension, emotions, and beliefs about the world are fascinating subjects, as is epistemology (aka the ‘theory of knowledge’). Despite being mostly enthralled with biology during my late […]

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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 […]

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The Bulletin: July 10-16, 2025

The Bulletin: July 10-16, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Why the world needs renewable food – by Julian Cribb ‘Green’ China Runs On Dirty Coal | ZeroHedge Doug Casey on Why the Military-Industrial Complex Always Wins Three Choices, None Good Court […]

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The Bulletin: June 26-July 2, 2025

The Bulletin: June 26-July 2, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Farming Ourselves to Extinction: The Great Tulip Uprising of 1822 – George Tsakraklides Indicators of Global Climate Change ‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and […]

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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 […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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