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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: 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 […]
The Bulletin: October 24-30, 2024
The Bulletin: October 24-30, 2024 Scientists warn of ‘societal collapse’ on Earth with worsening climate situation – Irish Star Experts sound alarm over massive threat facing 16,500 US dams — here’s what you need to know No acceptable alternative | All The World’s a Stage: Everything Is Fake Burning Man–The Failure of the Green New […]
Today Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CI–Theory Is Great, In Theory: More On Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Future
Today Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CI February 13, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Theory Is Great, In Theory: More On Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Future Quite often I get involved in online discussions with others about our predicament(s). Most of the time these are quite friendly in nature and a sharing of ideas […]
A Blueprint for Disaster: Humans Have Pushed Earth’s Freshwater Cycle to Breaking Point
A Blueprint for Disaster: Humans Have Pushed Earth’s Freshwater Cycle to Breaking Point Human activities have pushed the Earth’s freshwater cycle beyond its natural state, with significant alterations observed since the mid-twentieth century due to pressures like damming, irrigation, and climate change. This underscores the critical need for immediate action to safeguard vital freshwater resources. […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLV–Planetary Boundaries, Narrative Management, and Technology
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLV October 23, 2023 Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Planetary Boundaries, Narrative Management, and Technology As I continue to work on Part 4 of my multipart Contemplation regarding energy blindness (see: Part 1 Medium, Part 2 Medium, Part 3 Blog Medium), I offer a handful of recent comments I shared on a […]
UN Warns of ‘Total Societal Collapse’Due to Breaching of Planetary Boundaries
UN Warns of ‘Total Societal Collapse’Due to Breaching of Planetary Boundaries Photo: Diana Tolkunova A landmark report by the United Nations concludes that ‘global collapse’ is becoming more likely. But was it watered-down before being published? When the United Nations published its 2022 ‘Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction’ (GAR2022) in May, the world’s […]
How Bad is Pollution Loading?
How Bad is Pollution Loading? Many people tend to forget about pollution loading as a predicament. After all, the primary focus often has more to do with more immediate concerns such as climate change, energy and resource decline (the REAL reason behind supply chain woes), disease, and other issues seen as being more important. However, when one […]
Chemical pollution exceeds safe planetary limit: researcher Q+A on consequences for life on Earth
Chemical pollution exceeds safe planetary limit: researcher Q+A on consequences for life on Earth The production and release of plastics, pesticides, industrial compounds, antibiotics and other pollutants is now happening so fast and on such a large scale that it has exceeded the planetary boundary for chemical pollution, the safe limit for humanity, a new study […]
Social innovation for a just transition to sustainability
Social innovation for a just transition to sustainability At a time of climate emergency and rapid biodiversity loss, the need for transformation to a more sustainable economy and society becomes ever more urgent. Rapid change requires social innovations of different types and at different scales, Prof Fergus Lyon writes ahead of the #ISIRC2021 conference—a just transition […]
Nafeez Ahmed – Taking a Step Back to Move Forward in Times of Transition
Nafeez Ahmed – Taking a Step Back to Move Forward in Times of Transition Systems journalist Nafeez Ahmed joins us to discuss why it is so important to draw on systems thinking to understand global politics. Nafeez Ahmed guides us through the intricacies of systems thinking from within and outside the IR Academy, throwing light […]
Nitrogen Crisis: A neglected threat to Earth’s life support systems
Nitrogen Crisis: A neglected threat to Earth’s life support systems Planetary Boundaries. Nitrogen and biodiversity are farther out of safe limits than any others (Rockstrom et. al, Nature, 2009) Part One of a discussion of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself. Continuing our series […]
Our Economy is a Degenerative System
Our Economy is a Degenerative System Impacts of resource hungry exploitative economies “What is 120 times the size of London? The answer: the land or ecological footprint required to supply London’s needs.” — Herbert Giradet Our ecological footprint exceeds the Earth’s capacity to regenerate. A number of useful indicators and frameworks have been developed to measure the […]
