{"id":69739,"date":"2026-07-15T03:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69739"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:57:53","slug":"the-bulletin-july-8-14-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69739","title":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Bulletin: July 8\u201314, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0Bull<\/em><\/strong>etin: July 8\u201314, 2026<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

This past week\u2019s articles of interest\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re new to my writing, check out\u00a0<\/strong>this overview<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Decline on the World Stage \u2014 global geopolitics<\/a><\/p>\n

Could there be some beauty in collapse? \u2014 Prof Jem Bendell<\/a><\/p>\n

Your Phone Is Now Your Suitcase: Why Every U.S. Traveler Should Prepare for a Border Search<\/a><\/p>\n

Some Monsters are Real \u2014 by Prof. Eliot Jacobson<\/a><\/p>\n

Why we\u2019re blind to civilizational collapse<\/a><\/p>\n

Looming Economic Cataclysm<\/a><\/p>\n

Russia Bans Diesel Exports, Assuring Even Higher Prices | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

How the Global Economy Became the World Most Dangerous Battlefield<\/a><\/p>\n

The Land-Based Living Collective | James Bullen<\/a><\/p>\n

Cities In Dust: The Technosphere Trap Endgame<\/a><\/p>\n

How Will We See the World Next?<\/a><\/p>\n

Another Attack on Degrowth \u2014 by Matt Orsagh<\/a><\/p>\n

A Habitable Planet is Possible, but We Must Tackle the Richest \u2014 Global Research<\/a><\/p>\n

US, Japan, And South Korea Push SMR Exports For \u201cEnergy Security Needs\u201d | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Bloom Energy Defends Supply Chain, Calls Hunterbrook Report \u201cFalse And Misleading\u201d<! \u2014 \u2192 | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

The Water Crisis in the American Southwest || Peter Zeihan<\/a><\/p>\n

Your computer already told on you \u2014 by No1<\/a><\/p>\n

Government Environmental Policy: Stalling, Avoiding, and Deflecting<\/a><\/p>\n

As the world burns, the powerful deny and delay \u2014 David Suzuki Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n

Planet Earth: The Long Goodbye<\/a><\/p>\n

We Are Not Mining with Renewable Energy<\/a><\/p>\n

China Dumps US Treasuries and Buys Gold as America\u2019s Debt Explodes<\/a><\/p>\n

IEA Warns Escalation In US-Iran Hostilities Could Upend Oil Surplus Forecast | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

BP Weighs North Sea Exit Under New CEO | OilPrice.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Our Emotional Reactions to Collapse | how to save the world<\/a><\/p>\n

South Korea\u2019s Fake News Law Puts a Price on Online Speech<\/a><\/p>\n

The Day the Grid Failed: The Seventeen Minutes That Exposed the Fragile Foundations of Modern Civilization \u2014 Preppgroup<\/a><\/p>\n

Part II: The Sour Crude Problem: How Long Can the Salt Caverns Keep Bridging the Gap?<\/a><\/p>\n

El Ni\u00f1o Lands on a System Already Collapsing<\/a><\/p>\n

Dan Carlin on the myth of a shared reality \u2014 Big Think<\/a><\/p>\n

The Energy Crisis is Worse Than You Think<\/a><\/p>\n

Third World War in pieces in the name of Oil \u2014 by Ismaele<\/a><\/p>\n

The Weekly Flail \u2014 July 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

New World Order \u2014 by Nathan Knopp \u2014 System Failure<\/a><\/p>\n

The Collapse Chronicle 07.12.26<\/a><\/p>\n

Last Week in Collapse: July 5\u201310, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Surplus Elites and Revolution \u2014 by Edgar and Co.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cPlanet\u2019s Strongest Heat Dome\u201d To Bake America\u2019s Heartland | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Between Taiga and Civilization \u2014 by Anastassia Makarieva<\/a><\/p>\n

To Fix What\u2019s Broken, Start Here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Cutting Through the Climate Change Crap | Art Berman<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m Choosing to Live Knowing That Half of Us Will Be Dead in About 25 Years<\/a><\/p>\n

Offload Risks onto the Bottom 90% and Immiseration Follows<\/a><\/p>\n

Brussels Has Opinions About Your Social Media Feed<\/a><\/p>\n

The New Planet of Extremes<\/a><\/p>\n

They Want to Privatise Our Water<\/a><\/p>\n

The Weekend Emergency Preparedness Challenge: One Small Task Every Saturday<\/a><\/p>\n

Why the United States is Fighting a War in the Strait of Hormuz It Cannot Win<\/a><\/p>\n

Before the First Switch Goes Dark<\/a><\/p>\n

Entropy and the End of Superpowers<\/a><\/p>\n

Oil market headed into a perfect storm? \u2014 by Alex Krainer<\/a><\/p>\n

You Still Have Time to Grow Food<\/a><\/p>\n

Ritter\u2019s Rant 094: Hybrid Diplomacy \u2014 Real Scott Ritter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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PLEASE NOTE: This list is just \u2018of interest\u2019. It does not mean I personally endorse or agree with the content of a listed article; in fact, some I certainly do not agree with. But these are all part and parcel of stories told by our species about our world. Some are published by the authors for \u2018educational\u2019 and\/or \u2018informational\u2019 purposes, some are for far more nefarious \u2018narrative management\u2019 ones\u2013you, the reader, can decide which is which. Keep in mind a relevant passage from a Bill Rees\u00a0paper<\/a>: \u201cWe begin with a reminder that humans are storytellers by nature. We socially construct complex sets of facts, beliefs, and values that guide how we operate in the world. Indeed, humans act out of their socially constructed narratives as if they were real. All political ideologies, religious doctrines, economic paradigms, cultural narratives \u2014 even scientific theories \u2014 are socially constructed \u201cstories\u201d that may or may not accurately reflect any aspect of reality they purport to represent. Once a particular construct has taken hold, its adherents are likely to treat it more seriously than opposing evidence from an alternate conceptual framework.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If you have arrived here and get something out of my writing,\u00a0please consider ordering the trilogy of my \u2018fictional\u2019 novel series, Olduvai (PDF files; only $9.99 Canadian)<\/strong>, via my\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0or the link below \u2014 the \u2018profits\u2019 of which help me to keep my internet presence alive and first book available in print (and is available via various online retailers).<\/p>\n

Attempting a new payment system as I am contemplating shutting down my site in the future (given the ever-increasing costs to keep it running).<\/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\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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