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The Bulletin: May 15-21, 2025
The Bulletin: May 15-21, 2025
This past week’s articles of interest…
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Pharaohs to AI: The Long Ascent of the Superorganism | Art Berman
No Economies Without Biodiversity: Why Our Markets Rely on the Complexity of Nature
Wetlands Disappearing Three Times Faster than Forests | UNFCCC
Intensive farming depletes European and UK soils, weakening climate defenses – EHN
6 Warning Signs of a Looming Epic Economic Collapse – Prepper1cense
The UK Is Heading For a Full-Blown Financial Crash
Anthropocentric Narratives and Bargaining
Water Wars: One-Fifth Of Pakistan’s Electricity Comes From Hydro | ZeroHedge
Why None of These People Will Ever Talk to You About Overpopulation. – George Tsakraklides
‘We are witnessing ecocide’: Santander accused of funding vast deforestation
#303 At the End of Modernity, Part Two
“Collapse” is unevenly distributed
Global recycling rates have fallen for eighth year running, report finds
Everglades dry up as worst drought since 2012 lingers in Florida – UPI.com
Serious problem’: Kabul losing race against water shortages – World – DAWN.COM
Living with Collapse – The Honest Sorcerer
The AI Colossus Is Rapidly Enveloping the World
On the Scientific Essence Of Dr. James Hansen’s Recent Appeal
Living with Uncertainty: Rethinking Truth in a Quantum World | Art Berman
How much land do we have to restore to bring back the rain?
The Fourth Turning is Here | Neil Howe Explains What Comes Next
The Shock of Waking Up in Carney’s Canada – Global Research
Goldman Raises Oil Demand Outlook | OilPrice.com
A new cold war is brewing over rare earth minerals | The Verge
Deforestation Is Reducing Rainfall in the Amazon – Eos
Banks Are Hiding This: This Isn’t a Recession… It’s a Reset I Francis Hunt
Boomers, Let’s Face It: The Math Doesn’t Work
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Fourth Turning–Our Rendezvous With Destiny
FOURTH TURNING – OUR RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY
We are now in the seventh year of this Fourth Turning. A famous quote from the seventh year of the last Fourth Turning portended the desperate, bloody and ultimately heroic trials and tribulations which awaited generations of our ancestors. What will be our rendezvous with destiny?
“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt – June 27, 1936 – Philadelphia, PA
Our Rendezvous With Destiny
“The seasons of time offer no guarantees. For modern societies, no less than for all forms of life, transformative change is discontinuous. For what seems an eternity, history goes nowhere – and then it suddenly flings us forward across some vast chaos that defies any mortal effort to plan our way there. The Fourth Turning will try our souls – and the saecular rhythm tells us that much will depend on how we face up to that trial. The saeculum does not reveal whether the story will have a happy ending, but it does tell us how and when our choices will make a difference.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
The people have been permitting a small cadre of elitists, billionaire financiers, corporate chiefs, propagandist media moguls, and crooked politicians to make the choices dictating the path of our country since the 2008 dawn of this Fourth Turning. The choices they have made and continue to make have imperiled the world and guaranteed a far more calamitous outcome as we attempt to navigate through the trials and tribulations ahead. Their strategy to “save the country” by saving bankers, while selling the plan to the public as beneficial to all and essential to saving our economic system, has proven to be nothing more than the greatest wealth transfer scheme in human history. The ruling class is deliberately blind to their own venality and capacity for evil.
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