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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 […]

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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 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: 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 CXCIX– Imperial Longevity, ‘Collapse’ Causes, and Resource Finiteness

Athens, Greece (1984). Photo by author. CLICK HERE   I thought I would try something a little different in this Contemplation as I work on reading and summarising a chapter from a monograph–Peak Oil, Economic Growth, and Wildlife Conservation. Today’s Contemplation is a Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence-generated summary of three specific questions pertaining to […]

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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: November 21-27, 2024

The Bulletin: November 21-27, 2024 How Societal Collapse Can Save Humans From Mass Extinction Our Sixty Days of Nuclear Chicken Have Begun ZeroHedge Edit: Fort Knox, Egon Von Greyerz, and Zoltan Pozsar Doug Casey on the Looming Debt Crisis and What Lies Ahead – International Man Biden’s parting Ukrainian sacrifice – by Aaron Maté Trump’s […]

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Falling From Grace

Falling From Grace Years ago, Doug Casey mentioned in a correspondence to me, “Empires fall from grace with alarming speed.” Every now and then, you receive a comment that, although it may have been stated casually, has a lasting effect, as it offers uncommon insight. For me, this was one of those and it’s one […]

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Rome Was Eternal, Until It Wasn’t: Imperial Analogs of Decay

Rome Was Eternal, Until It Wasn’t: Imperial Analogs of Decay The tricky part is distinguishing the critical dependencies–those resources the empire literally cannot do without–from longer-term sources of decay and decline. In response to my recent post What If There Are No Analogs for 2024?, an astute reader nominated the Roman Empire as a fitting analog. Longtime […]

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The World’s Top Industrial Countries Are in Treacherous Waters

The World’s Top Industrial Countries Are in Treacherous Waters Sometimes, after reading a slew of news articles from around the world, I feel confused and weary. But occasionally patterns seem to emerge. I say “seem” because the human brain is all too eager to see patterns where there are none (hence humanity’s fascination with false […]

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The Last Gasps of a Dying Empire

The Last Gasps of a Dying Empire My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. -Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818 – (image by Dezgo.com) All empires in history […]

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What do the Rich Have in Mind? First, Their own Survival

What do the Rich Have in Mind? First, Their own Survival We know very little about what the rich actually think, surely nothing like what transpires from their public declarations. I’ve always been thinking that the rich and the powerful are not smarter than the average commoner, such as you and I. But just the […]

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Leave Home

Leave Home As an increasing number of people realize that their home country is becoming a liability to them, the most common question I hear from them is, “What do I have to do to remain where I am and still be assured that I’ll be able to retain both my wealth and my freedom?” […]

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Dusk of a Global Empire

Dusk of a Global Empire The slow passing of a global hegemon, the Empire of all empires, made me ponder how it will pass to the pages of history books. Apparently, its ruling elite has chosen a strategy called spite: knowingly (or unknowingly) hurting their own self interest, hoping that their enemies will be hurt […]

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