{"id":69357,"date":"2025-09-17T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69357"},"modified":"2025-09-16T19:15:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:15:52","slug":"the-bulletin-september-10-16-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69357","title":{"rendered":"The Bulletin: September 10-16, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>Bull<\/i><\/b>etin: September 10-16, 2025<\/span><\/h1>\n

This past week\u2019s articles of interest\u2026<\/span><\/h3>\n

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CLICK HERE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re new to my writing, check out <\/b>this overview<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Beyond Surplus: Rethinking How Civilizations Rose | Art Berman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Why There Will Be No Energy Transition | by Eric Lee | Sep, 2025 | Medium<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Update: Why We Need Forests<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Russia-Ukraine War Is a Jockey Between Two World Orders<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How Did We Get Into This Mess Anyway? | how to save the world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Geoengineering = Peak Technohopium<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

EU Chat Control 2.0: Experts Warn Against Encryption Surveillance Law<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

China-Russia Pipeline Seen Displacing One-Third of LNG Imports, Analysts Warn | <\/span><\/a>OilPrice.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump Cryptically Writes “Here We Go!” In Reaction To Russia-Poland Drone Incident, Oil Spikes | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Big AG Is Threatening New Mexico\u2019s Water Supply<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Alex Krainer: Economic Collapse and Civil War Fears<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

These Climate Hacks To Save the Poles Could Totally Backfire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Decades Old Waste Barrels Are Creating Toxic Dead Zones Off LA\u2019s Coast<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Is Earth\u2019s climate in a state of ‘termination shock’? | New Scientist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

France in Flames As the ‘Block Everything’ Protest Movement Sweeps the Country \u2013 PJ Media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

CPI Inflation Dishes Up another Nasty Surprise, as it Tends to Do | Wolf Street<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Truth About How We Sacrifice People For Progress<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Humans and Their Ecological Space<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Jenga Tower Economy Is Starting To Topple<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Playing with Fire: Poland’s PM Tusk Accuses Russia of “19 Intrusions of Our Airspace”. Invokes NATO’s Article 4. Drago Bosnic – Global Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Precarity and the Point of No Return<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cCanada: The Industrial Implosion\u201d v. the United States | Wolf Street<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Unholy Sin Of Carbon Offsetting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Federal Deficit Surges again as Trump Spending Accelerates | Mises Institute<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

For The First Time, We’ve Found Evidence Climate Change Is Attracting Invasive Species To Canadian Arctic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Poland sends 40,000 troops to border amid Russia tension<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Carbon Storage Was Never A Solution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How the Sustainability Movement Lost Its Way | Ralph Thurm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The End Of The Road – The Honest Sorcerer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Human civilization depends on permafrost<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Putting It Together, Part One<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve Seen States Collapse; Now I See It Happening Here” | naked capitalism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Your home has a 1 in 4 chance of being at severe risk from extreme weather | Grist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Me, the collapsnik!? – by Gunnar Rundgren<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Science Snippets: Mass Extinction Event Targets Ocean Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

If Not Now, it Will Come Later – by Ugo Bardi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Civilization\u2019s Weakest Link<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

When Empires Die – International Man<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Insights From the Lotka-Volterra Model<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

We are inhaling stupidity: carbon dioxide threatens our brains<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Inflation and Embezzlement | Mises Institute<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

It’s Time to Stop Eating Plastic. Start by Trashing These 7 Items Full of Microplastics – CNET<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Maddening\u2019 Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows – DeSmog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Climate change is accelerating, scientists find in \u2018grim\u2019 report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Economists Predict When the US Economy Will Crash, THIS is the Date<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Is the 6ME Hyperbole? | Do the Math<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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You can also find a variety of resources, particularly my summary notes for a handful of texts, especially William Catton\u2019s Overshoot and Joseph Tainter\u2019s Collapse of Complex Societies: see <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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