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The Bulletin: October 29-November 4, 2025

The Bulletin: October 29-November 4, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. New Mexico Officials Report High Rate Of ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Residents Near Air Base | ZeroHedge Barack Obama Proposes a Scary Idea for Social Media Censorship Is Now A New Form […]

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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 6-12, 2025

The Bulletin: August 6-12, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Maine Organic Farmers Organization Suing EPA over PFAS in sludge–which has shut down many farms in Maine Dennis L. Meadows on the Future of our Planet The Silent Collapse: What the Disappearance […]

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The Bulletin: February 20-26, 2025

The Bulletin: February 20-26, 2025 US Flies Bomber Group Over Middle East In Warning To Enemies | ZeroHedge Bizarre Symptoms of Societal Collapse Peak Oil. Food. Fascism. Collapse. Guest post: How the global ‘water gap’ will grow under climate change – Carbon Brief Bird study finds much larger volumes of toxic PFAS chemicals than previously […]

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The Bulletin: January 23-29, 2025

The Bulletin: January 23-29, 2025 Collapse or Extinction: The Unholy Double Bind of the 21st Century US Will Likely Stop Buying Oil From Venezuela: Trump | The Epoch Times The End of the Regenerative Illusion? Germany’s Outgoing Economy Minister Warns Europe Not to Over-Rely on US Energy | The Epoch Times Modern Civilization is Proving […]

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The Bulletin: January 9-15, 2025

The Bulletin: January 9-15, 2025 The Falsification of Everything | how to save the world Emissions Are SO Not the Only Problem with Cars Rhyming History: Weimar Germany’s Hyperinflation At least 6 dead, more than 300 000 without power as major winter storm sweeps through U.S. Net Energy Cliff & the Collapse of Civilization Quarter […]

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Means of Extinction: Earth is Too Salty

Means of Extinction: Earth is Too Salty I have not produced a video titled Means of Extinction since 30 July 2021. At that point, I had identified six means by which we were rapidly driving ourselves to extinction. Due to the rate of environmental change in our wake, and also the uncontrolled meltdown of nuclear power plants, […]

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Means of Extinction: Antarctic “Super Vortex” is Accelerating

Means of Extinction: Antarctic “Super Vortex” is Accelerating From the Daily Mail in the UK comes an article titled Antarctica ‘super vortex’ is speeding up due to climate change – and it could melt thousands of square miles of sea ice, study reveals. The article was published on 27 March 2024. More sensationalist headlines appear in […]

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Humans may have nearly gone extinct.

Humans may have nearly gone extinct. When we think of endangered animals, we generally think about elephants, tigers, and whales — but certainly not humans. Yet between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago, ancestors of Homo sapiens lost 98.7% of their population, according to a 2023 study published in the journal Science. Before the population crash, as many as 135,000 early […]

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Humanity’s End Was Determined from the Start

Humanity’s End Was Determined from the Start The moment a species learns to manipulate its environment for gain is the moment the clock starts ticking on its demise. Given the vastness of the universe, it’s possible that 1 billion intelligent civilizations exist. So why is there no sign of these civilizations? It is likely that […]

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By Preston Howard: The Maximum Power Principle and Why It Underscores the Certainty of Human Extinction in the Near Future

By Preston Howard: The Maximum Power Principle and Why It Underscores the Certainty of Human Extinction in the Near Future Howard T. Odum: co-originator of Maximum Power Principle Today’s guest post by Preston Howard discusses an issue central to our overshoot predicament that is often ignored: The Maximum Power Principle (MPP). The MPP states that life […]

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Hope, on the Balance of Probabilities

Hope, on the Balance of Probabilities my now-slightly-outdated map of worldviews about collapse; right-click and open in a new tab to see it full-sized It’s interesting to listen to social philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger try to reconcile his assessment of the state of the world with his vehement insistence that we have to try as hard […]

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Extreme heat could put 40% of land vertebrates in peril by end of century

Extreme heat could put 40% of land vertebrates in peril by end of century Study shows ‘disastrous consequences for wildlife’ if human-caused emissions push global temperatures up 4.4C A female desert bighorn sheep in the Joshua Tree National Park, California. Such areas would be among the worse impacted if global emissions are not cut. Photograph: […]

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It’s a Race: Will Human Extinction Result from a Loss of Aerosol Masking or Ongoing Overheating?

It’s a Race: Will Human Extinction Result from a Loss of Aerosol Masking or Ongoing Overheating?

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Science Snippets: Peak Fossil Fuels

Science Snippets: Peak Fossil Fuels   Latest peer-reviewed journal article appears in the prestigious Elsevier series of journals: McPherson, Guy R., Beril Sirmack, and Ricardo Vinuesa. March 2022. Environmental thresholds for mass-extinction events. Results in Engineering (2022), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2022.100342. Full text: When the head of the conservative International Energy Agency admits we are in the midst of the […]

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