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• A Winter of Anger

• “Revolution Has Begun”: 75,000 Brits To Stop Paying Power Bills Amid Inflation Storm

• Rather Than Focus on What You Don’t Control (“The News”), Focus on What You Do Control: What You Grow, Eat and Own

• Groupthink: we are all victims

• “Situation Is Really Precarious”: World’s Largest Rice Exporter Faces Output Decline Amid Heatwave

• Collapse Won’t Just Reset Society, It Will Destroy It

• Green technocracy’s dirty secret

• Norway Considers Limiting Electricity Exports To Prevent Domestic Crunch

• UK Water Restrictions Go Into Effect As Heatwave Persists

• “Widespread Civil Unrest” Looming in UK Over Cost of Living Crisis

• World population is growing faster than we thought

• UN Secretary-General Blames Global Economic Crisis On Ukraine War

• The Lowdown on the “Climate Act”

• Sorry! Diesel prices are likely to climb again soon

• Peak lithium makes transportation & electricity storage pointless

• ‘Soon the world will be unrecognisable’: is it still possible to prevent total climate meltdown?

• German Oil Refiner Observes “Run” On Diesel & Heating Oil, Halts Deliveries

• Is a Partial Collapse Possible? — Part 2

• OPEC agrees to produce slightly more oil as recession fears loom

• Germany’s Uniper Warns Of Possible “Irregular Operation” At Major Power Plant As Rhine River Runs Dry

• Lying About The Economy Will Only Make The Coming Crash Worse

• Bill Gates’ dumbest idea ever

• Is a partial collapse possible? Part 1

• Hezbollah Threatens Israel With War Over Disputed Gas Field

• Europe has lost the energy war

• ‘We live in an Orwellian hell-scape’: Facebook fact-checks top economist for stating America IS in a recession after Biden refused to admit it

• Europe hypnotized into war economy

• Fed Chairman Paul Volcker’s Thoughts On Goverance

• Going to Samarkan

• Free Food: 33 Foods You Can Forage From July–September

• Chronicling Ecosystem Collapse from the Tropics to the Antarctic

• Water Woes

• *Summertime, and the livin’ is easy…

• #228. In the eye of the Perfect Storm

• No Farmers, No Food, No Life

• Micro utopias for an inclusive future

• We are One Species

• Farm Stops: A New Way to Enhance Local and Regional Food Systems

• Why The EU Could End Within A Year

• Israel’s War On Cash Is About To Get More Drastic

• We Are Going To See Energy Prices Go Absolutely Nuts This Winter Just As We Plunge Into A Horrifying Global Economic Crisis

• Gas Levy Could Triple Household Heating Bills In Germany

• Back to the Future

• #Future Talks: Global Energy in 2022 with Vaclav Smil

• What Happens If The Fed Doesn’t Capitulate On Interest Rates?

• How much oil remains for the world to produce? Comparing assessment methods, and separating fact from fiction

• Why expensive gasoline is here to stay

• It’s Earth Overshoot Day, and Future Generations Are Calling | Opinion

• UN, World Economic Forum Behind Global ‘War on Farmers’: Experts

• The world’s self-organizing economy can be expected to act strangely, as energy supplies deplete

• EU Prepares Public For Winter Gas Siege

• BASF Prepares To Slash Ammonia Production In Germany Amid Worsening NatGas Crunch

• We Are Going To See Energy Prices Go Absolutely Nuts This Winter Just As We Plunge Into A Horrifying Global Economic Crisis

• Category 4 hurricane? Prepare for 21 days without power, Entergy says

• Question Everything

• Central Banks, Global Debt & COVID

• EU Natural Gas Prices Soar As Gazprom Readies Nord Stream Cuts, US NatGas Hits 14-Year High

• Our Entire Civilization Is Structured Around Keeping Us From Realizing We Can Do This

• What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?

• FAQs from Episodes 1-25 of The Great Simplification

• The Dawn of the Apocalypse

• Russia And China Officially Announce A “New Global Reserve Currency”

• Carbon-Reduction Plans Rely on Tech That Doesn’t Exist

• Panama’s Inflation Upheaval Causing Food, Fuel Shortages

• Running on Empty, Part V

• IEA Chief: Europe Must Cut Gas Usage 20% To Survive Winter

• The Great Rehash, Part One: The Best and the Brightest

• #234. Britain on the brink

• #235. The affordability crisis

• The Great Reset: An Alternate Theory

• By wis.dom project: Regress in Progress: Who is responsible?

• The Anthropocene is a Joke

• In Ukraine, a proxy war on the planet

• Global Water Scarcity on Schedule

• What Is The “Council For Inclusive Capitalism?” It’s The New World Order

• Those who the gods wish to destroy…

• Exclusive: Saudi Arabia doubles second-quarter Russian fuel oil imports for power generation

• Energy consultancy keeps lowering worldwide recoverable oil resources

• As Fuel Prices Poised to TRIPLE, EU Mulls Rationing Gas Across Bloc Monday

• UK shatters record for its hottest day ever; London fire service declares ‘major incident’

• Refinery Shuts Down Due To Lack Of Crude

• War with Iran

• Germany’s Energy Crisis About To Get Even Worse As Rhine Water Levels Plummet

• Gazprom Reportedly Declares Force Majeure, Will Halt Gas Flows To Germany Indefinitely

• California went big on rooftop solar. Now that’s a problem for landfills

• Dutch Nitrogen Scientist Questions the Basis of Government Climate Mandates

• After Biden Rehabs MbS’ Image, Saudis Announce Increase In Oil Production Capacity

• Why We Ignore the Obvious: The Psychology of Willful Blindness

• UK Met Office Issues First Red Warning for Extreme Heat

• How much oil remains for the world to produce? Comparing assessment methods, and separating fact from fiction

• German Energy Giant Warns Of Insolvency “Within Days”, Starts Draining Gas From Storage

• Bigger than you can imagine

• Deutsche Bank Now Modeling German Households Chopping Wood To Keep Warm This Winter

• Motorway speed limit reduction and Sunday driving ban to tackle reliance on oil suggested

• The great unravelling

• Three Illuminating Quotes About The War In Ukraine

• “Take The Tragedy In Sri Lanka And Multiply By Ten”: The Fed Just Lobbed A Financial Nuke That Will Obliterate The Global Economy

• US Consumer Prices Soared In June, Americans’ Real Wages Fall For 15th Straight Month

• A potential ‘black swan’ for US oil prices is being overlooked: unreliable electricity grids

• James Howard Kunstler: It’s All Going to Have to Get Smaller

• Is the Euro An Energy Problem Or A Central Bank Problem?

• Worst Of Global Energy Crisis Could Be Approaching, IEA Head Warns

• Of Heroes and Dragons

• Germany Plans ‘Warm Up Spaces’ in Response to Gas Shortages

• Is Saudi Oil Production At Capacity?

• The Oil Industry and Involuntary Liquidation

• Welcome to 1984

• We’re heading for a messy, and expensive, breakup with natural gas

• Dozens of reasons why solar power can’t replace fossil fuels

• Is Saudi Arabia Exaggerating Its Oil Production Potential?

• Norwegian Strikes Could Sever NatGas Supplies To UK 

• JPMorgan Sees ‘Stratospheric’ $380 Oil on Worst-Case Russian Cut

• Entire industries in Germany could collapse due to Russian natural-gas supply cuts: union head

• Libya Oil Exports Halted

• On Magical Thinking

• This Implosion Will Be Fast–Hold Onto Your Seats

• France Sees Nuclear Energy Output Plummet At The Worst Possible Moment

• Ukraine Is The Most Aggressively Trolled War Of All Time: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

• 33 Problems With Media In One Chart

• The Most Valuable Form of Money Nobody’s Seen–Yet

• Dutch Farmers Livid Over EU’s ‘Green’ Nitrogen Rule Block Border Between Holland And Germany

• Pulling Back The Curtain On The ‘Real’ US Economy

• Rationing Has Already Started In Europe As The Entire Globe Plunges Into A Horrific Economic Nightmare

• Oops! U.S. oil and gas exports fuel domestic price rise

• Oil Likely To Hit $200: SEB Group

• IEA: Europe Will Have To Cut Gas Usage By Nearly One-Third

• The Future of Electricity

• The Age of Discord

• Germany Fears Russia Could Shut Nord Stream 1 Within Weeks

• GONE Bag – Get Out Now Emergency

• Food Riots Continue In Sri Lanka As The Military Begins Shooting

• Oil turbulence could last five years, ExxonMobil boss warns

• Concurrent Deflation and Hyperinflation Will Ravage the World

• Oops! U.S. oil and gas exports fuel domestic price rise

• Germany Elevates Risk Level In Its “National Gas Emergency Plan” To Second-Highest “Alarm” Phase

• The Difference Between a Forecast and a Guess

• Marti’s Corner – 70

• A Warning About The Coming Shortages Of Diesel Fuel, Diesel Exhaust Fluid And Diesel Engine Oil

• IEA: Europe Should Prepare For Complete Russian Gas Shutdown

• Think Only Good Thoughts

• Rabobank: It’s A Depressing Idea To Admit We Have No Ideas

• Why the World Economy Hasn’t Collapsed… Yet.

• European Power Prices Spike As Heat Dome Strains Grid 

• Drought-Stricken Lake Mead Less Than 150 Feet From “Dead Pool”

• What’s Really Happening in Ukraine? The Rules of Disinformation During Wartime

• “Dangerous” Heat Dome Shifts Eastward, Triple-Digit Temps Expected For Southeast

• What are our leaders doing?

• The 1970s Again?

• Australia invokes emergency powers to block coal exports in energy crisis

• Germany Rations Gas Amid Russian Cuts, Mandates Return To Coal For Electricity Production