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I edit a newsletter that bears witness to the unwinding and collapse of late stage capitalism. The current system will collapse in the near future due to environmental overshoot and resource constraints.
Dept. of Are We Great Yet, #56291: Americans are feeling the squeeze from rising health care costs, and they are already doing without. As medical costs rise, more than 80 million people have made sacrifices like skipping meals and driving less, a new survey finds.
The most precious liquid of the coming century is water. Demand for fresh water exceeds available renewable supplies— a growing global crisis linked to relentless overextraction, climate change and population growth, and it will affect all of us.
The Strait of Hormuz is a critical maritime chokepoint for the global agricultural supply chain. A third of the world’s fertilizers pass through. Cutting the supply of petrochemicals sets the world up for a food crisis.
For the West, an old order is dying, and renewal is no longer optional. The credibility gap inevitably widens when what is done never aligns with what is said. And the chimera is born: an imaginary beast becomes real, and the empire must finally confront the monster of its own making.
The same people telling trump that a few days of bombing will cause Iran to fold now insist that limited use of nuclear weapons is viable. We are at the precipice of nuclear exchange, and the the US is lead by white Christian nationalists convinced that Jesus will appear in a nuclear cloud.
The Iran War, The Deadly Illusion of Limited Nuclear Strike in Mid-East, The Making of a Chimera, The Iran War Could Collapse the United States in the Next Six Months, How Do you Prepare for Collapse During a Collapse? Fossil Capitalism, The Quiet Bankruptcy of Water… in The Collapse Chronicle!
The Age of Lies, On Being a “Doomer,” Population Collapse: Learning from Ireland, Millions More in the Path of Rising Seas, Earth Heating 2X Fast as Thought, Israel’s Samson Option, Fire in the Himalayas, Global Economic Chaos as Iran War Sends Markets Diving… in The Collapse Chronicle!
Even as on-line betting, once the bane of pro sports, has become normalized, on line casinos which style themselves “prediction markets'" enable well placed insiders to bet and profit on world events including military operations. What could possibly go wrong?
Dept. of Are We Great Yet? The Iran War has closed the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb Strait, creating a dual-chokepoint crisis that is driving massive inflation across energy, shipping, fertilizer, and financial markets, threatening a global stagflationary shock.
Anthropogenic activities are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure to these increasing atmospheric CO2 levels can negatively impact the normal physiology of organisms.
War in Iran: giant leap toward collapse, How targeting of desalination plants could disrupt Gulf water supply, CO2 overload could become toxic, 6T ways to solve climate change, Future of forests, Perverse incentives created a runaway media monster, Here comes ‘warflation…’ in The Collapse Chronicle!
Sign of the Times: We've all observed our culture-wide enshittification. And now candy. They change a product, stripping out real chocolate for a cheaper substitute, and find that just as many people are still willing to buy the latest debased product.
War in Iran: giant leap towards collapse, How targeting of desalination plants could disrupt Gulf water supply, CO2 overload could become toxic, Six trillion ways to solve climate change, Perverse incentives created a runaway media monster, Here comes ‘warflation…’ in The Collapse Chronicle!
Every news organization, for days, has been leading with Trump’s aggressive and impetuous (and illegal) strike on Iran and the killing of its longtime leader. The coverage has blotted out almost everything else, including the damage Iran has inflicted on Israel and the US.
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Countdown to Global Collapse Has Begun, Runaway Climate: Point of No Return, Climate Change is Speeding Up, The Heat is Coming Back, Was War with Iran Sparked by Water? “Warflation” Has Just Begun, Strait That Carries 20% of the World’s Oil Now at the Center of a War… in The Collapse Chronicle!
Recent events lay bare the fact that International law was never about restraining power, it was about managing perception and optics. Multipolarity is dispelling illusions and the result, while more unstable, is at least more honest. The hypocrisy that numbed the system is gone.
Now that the current US regime has started World War E, for which we apparently;y have unclear objectives, no exit plan or accountability, Sarah Conner has ten insights. Food for thought.
Your Billionaire-owned Media At Work: If you think you're seeing less climate related coverage on TV than before, you're correct. Corporate broadcast networks again reduced climate coverage in 2025, marking the third year coverage has declined since the networks' high-water mark of 23 hours in 2022.
'Between a quarter and a third of the global trade in the raw materials for fertiliser passes through the strait, as well as a fifth of seaborne crude oil and gas. The de facto closure of the strait is affecting the transport of ammonia and nitrogen'
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Climate change's rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters already are. There is a mismatch between the way sea and land altitudes are measured.
Our rising oceans, The sea is higher than we thought and millions more at risk, A greening Arctic might kick-start a dangerous feedback loop, An illustrated guide for unhinged times, Thunder of the metacrisis, 10 insights on the US-Iran war, War, oil and the world economy… in The Collapse Chronicle!
Our rising oceans, The sea is higher than we thought and millions more at risk, A greening Arctic might kick-start a dangerous feedback loop, An illustrated guide for unhinged times, Thunder of the metacrisis, 10 insights on the US-Iran war, War, oil and the world economy… in The Collapse Chronicle!
The seeming wealth and high living standards which were the hallmarks of my younger days were to a great extent financed by a global trade deal that was a geopolitical abnormality. And Ray Dalio has pronounced the death of the “global order” and Pax Americana.
Why Is Overshoot a Predicament and Not a Problem? World on Fire, Deny, Delay, Downplay: How Governments Hide Climate Change Intelligence, Illinois in a Drought, Never a War, Always a Business, Life Expectancy In A Post-Industrial World, Viruses Don’t Know Borders… in The Collapse Chronicle!
Israel leads the US into World War E. Mission accomplished-- Epstein off the front page.
Welcome to World War E. The ruling junta has already achieved the war’s objectives, knocking Epstein from the top of the national narrative.
A mid-century world few ready for, Antarctica records fastest glacier collapse ever, Ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, Rejecting normalization of decay, US birthrate plummets, net migration negative, One family poised to run CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok… in The Collapse Chronicle!