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The Bulletin: May 1-7, 2025
The Bulletin: May 1-7, 2025
This past week’s articles of interest…
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A Key Longevity Antioxidant Is Fading From Our Food Supply
The Limits of Business-as-Usual in AEO 2025 | Art Berman
Complexity, Collapse, and the Lessons of Late Antiquity
More Than 150 Nobel-Prize Winning Scientists Warn of Imminent Global Famine: “We Must Act Now”
Major Escalation By Pakistan, Firing At International Border, India Responds
Do You Believe In Magic? – by Aurelien
Pakistan Warns It Has ‘Credible Intelligence’ India Will Attack Within 36 Hours | ZeroHedge
Resource Scarcity and Eco-Fascism | Antonio Turiel
Heat and Fire Making Pollution Worse Across Much of the U.S. – Yale e360
Old growth forests in eastern Canada show that the climate started changing almost 100 years ago
Technology Addiction and Lessons, Part 2
Death of Empires: History Tells Us What Will Follow the Collapse of US Hegemony | Covert Geopolitics
The 5 Stages of Collapse: Will We Survive the Breaking Point?
Information Burnout: Are We Past Peak Sensemaking?
The two horsemen of the net zero apocalypse
Self-Inflicted Civilizational Collapse — An Ancient Climate Story
Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the International Dictatorship of the Future
Global Food Prices Climb Toward Arab Spring-Era Highs Amid Trade War Turmoil | ZeroHedge
El Blackout – by Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling
How to reduce microplastic exposure and protect your health
Seabed Mining, Health Mining, and Health/Enviro Unity
A Clash of Titans – The Honest Sorcerer
#302: At the end of modernity, part one | Surplus Energy Economics
Human Extinction Ahead: How Many Years Left? – by Ugo Bardi
Why More Shale Oil Is Not Gonna Happen
The Mouse Utopia That Ended in Collapse — And Why Humanity is Next
Climate change and the Overton Window – resilience
The 6th Mass Extinction | Are We Witnessing a Silent Apocalypse?
Waking Up From The Nightmare Of Western Civilization
Techno-Optimism Won’t Save the Day
US Crude Oil Output to Peak As Early As This Year: Kpler | ZeroHedge
Trump Leaves Another Clue About Who Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipeline
The Collapse of Civilization is Ongoing. There’s a Lot to Like About That.
Does the Concept of Pollution Match the Complexity of Human-Biosphere Interactions?
India Launches Strikes On Pakistan After Terror Attack | ZeroHedge
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What It Means To Be “Collapse-Aware”
What It Means To Be “Collapse-Aware”
Becoming collapse-aware can make you feel like you’re going insane. You’d be crazy if it didn’t.
I became collapse-aware a few years ago, and it completely changed my life.
Collapse-aware is a term that has become much more popular in recent years, especially among climate activists. Some people prefer the term doomer or collapsnik or eco-pessimist, but I think collapse-aware is the best term to describe someone like me.
But before I can tell you what it means to be collapse-aware, I have to tell you what “collapse-aware” means. If you’re collapse-aware, it means you’ve learned enough about climate change, pollution, resource depletion, and biodiversity loss to conclude that civilization is unsustainable and will eventually collapse.
Whether the collapse happens suddenly or takes several decades, and whether it happens soon or in the distant future, is up for debate. But the end result is the same: a pre-industrial world with a much smaller population.
It could be a world where nearly everyone works from sunup to sundown to put food on the table. It could be a world where people have to hunt and gather for survival, constantly moving in search of food and resources. Or it could be a world where humans, along with most other creatures, have gone extinct.
One thing is certain: It’s all downhill from here. Living standards will decline, shortages will increase, and war will become widespread as countries fight over the last remaining resources. Looking at the world today, one could easily make the case that the collapse has already begun.
That’s the conclusion I came to back in 2020. I watched, dumbfounded, as people debated the effectiveness of facemasks and whether vaccines are safe. Things that were once common knowledge were being debated again. Facts no longer mattered.
…click on the above link to read the rest…
