{"id":69776,"date":"2026-08-12T03:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69776"},"modified":"2026-08-11T19:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:21:59","slug":"the-bulletin-august-6-12-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69776","title":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Bulletin: August 6\u201312, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0Bull<\/em><\/strong>etin: August 6\u201312, 2026<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

This past week\u2019s articles of interest\u2026<\/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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BP Retreats Further From Green Energy With Archaea Sale | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

How Economic Power Has Shifted Over The Past 200 Years | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

De-industrialization | Damn the Matrix<\/a><\/p>\n

The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile<\/a><\/p>\n

Energy Predicaments and Prospects Revisited<\/a><\/p>\n

Lawrence Wilkerson: Trump Sacrifices Republic to Preserve the Empire<\/a><\/p>\n

Where\u2019s The Water? \u2014 by Erin Brockovich and Suzanne Boothby<\/a><\/p>\n

Mining Threat Persists in Raja Ampat<\/a><\/p>\n

The looming crisis bankers will not escape from<\/a><\/p>\n

Affordability, Not Scarcity, Is the Real Energy Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n

Scorched Harvest: The Strongest El Ni\u00f1o Ever Forecast, the Crops in Its Path, and the Hunger It Will Leave Behind<\/a><\/p>\n

China\u2019s Power Demand Hits Records as Heatwave Grips Key Regions | OilPrice.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The Massacres are Coming<\/a><\/p>\n

End Of Cheap Food? Five Forces Set To Drive Grocery Bills Even Higher | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Our Anthropocentrism and Psychology<\/a><\/p>\n

Watching My Country Essentially Commit Suicide<\/a><\/p>\n

Global Diesel Crunch Deepens As Record US Distillate Exports Race To Supply-Starved Europe | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Mexico Bans Fracking in Key Shale Basin | OilPrice.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Winter Is Coming: Europe Faces Twin Diesel And NatGas Crunch | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Can We Go Green Again?<\/a><\/p>\n

Even If the Strait of Hormuz Opens, the Damage to the Persian Gulf Energy Infrastructure is Enormous<\/a><\/p>\n

Cognitive Dissonance Underlies Oil and Gas Push<\/a><\/p>\n

Civilizations Fall When This Mechanism Activates<\/a><\/p>\n

The implosion of the American empire has begun \u2014 by Ismaele<\/a><\/p>\n

A Deep Time Perspective on Climate Change | Art Berman<\/a><\/p>\n

Why Haven\u2019t the Tanks Run Dry? What Investors Are Missing in Oil.<\/a><\/p>\n

Visualizing 75 Years Of America\u2019s Electricity Transition | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

The Earth Beneath US \u2014 ZNetwork<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump Forgot to Run a Massive Propaganda Before Attacking Iran<\/a><\/p>\n

The Living Earth Beneath Us: Climate Breakdown and the Death of Soil | Collapse of Industrial Civilization<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHope\u201d \u2014 The Brooklyn Rail<\/a><\/p>\n

ADNOC Reports 15 Vessel Attacks as Hormuz Risks Mount | OilPrice.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The Transition Nobody Will Finance | Collapse of Industrial Civilization<\/a><\/p>\n

Seeing Through the Paradigm \u2014 by Ernesto Van Peborgh<\/a><\/p>\n

Russia gets documentary proof of NATO\u2019s direct involvement in Ukrainian strikes on its territory, while Iran sets conditions for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz<\/a><\/p>\n

The Green New Deal is not a solution for the real problem: Overshoot<\/a><\/p>\n

THE DEEPER DIVE: Oil Pressure on Prices Is Rising Dramatically and Has Just Entered the Danger Zone<\/a><\/p>\n

A transition from fossil fuels to renewables could take a century \u2014 if it ever happens | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse<\/a><\/p>\n

Government Propaganda Is a Trojan Horse \u2014 American Thinker<\/a><\/p>\n

Decoding our rain: disentangling ocean, land and trees<\/a><\/p>\n

Financial Armageddon: The Day the Yen Stopped Being Money and Became a Weapon of Mass Destruction<\/a><\/p>\n

Why Nuclear Power can\u2019t replace fossil fuels | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse<\/a><\/p>\n

Lake Mead Hits Lowest Level On Record Amid Decade-Long Western Drought | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Fire Erupts At Saudi Aramco\u2019s Jazan Refinery As Iran-Backed Houthis Claim Drone Strike | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Energy, Water, & Climate Change are interdependent | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse<\/a><\/p>\n

Climate Change dominates news coverage at expense of other existential planetary boundaries | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse<\/a><\/p>\n

World War Three is Not Underway, It\u2019s Much Worse Than That<\/a><\/p>\n

Karin Kneissl: Energy Wars & the Coming Collapse of Europe<\/a><\/p>\n

Yen Carry Trade Blow Up-Financial Equivalent of All-Out Nuclear War \u2014 Jim Rickards | Greg Hunter\u2019s USAWatchdog<\/a><\/p>\n

How Climate Change Fuels Increasing Wildfire Disasters<\/a><\/p>\n

How the West Destroys Itself by Conflating Morality with Moralism<\/a><\/p>\n

A small example of contagion<\/a><\/p>\n

Ex Oil-Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: We Face COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n

CALAMITY: Oil Blows out. So Does War. So Does Finance. So Will Food.<\/a><\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s Next Energy Crisis Won\u2019t Be a War, It\u2019ll Be Peak Oil | OilPrice.com<\/a><\/p>\n

A Dying West is Eating Its Children<\/a><\/p>\n

A Record El Ni\u00f1o Is Coming<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fourth Turning Global War Has Already Bankrupted America \u2014 And Nobody\u2019s Counting the Bodies \u2014 Preppgroup<\/a><\/p>\n

[Essay] What Can\u2019t Be Rebuilt: Irreversible Stakes of an Uncertain Future<\/a><\/p>\n

Is Cognition Inherently Dangerous? | Do the Math<\/a><\/p>\n

US Fires on Panama Ship. Result Is Upward Pressure on the Price of Oil \u2014 MishTalk<\/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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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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