The Collapse Chronicle
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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.
The many converging crises we are currently confronting has lowered the prospect of keeping all 8.3 billion of us alive. We’re drawing down the last remaining fisheries, top soils, forests, minerals, etc., while burdening the biosphere with an ever increasing amount of pollution.
No Oil, No Food
How the many converging crises lowered the prospect of keeping all 8.3 billion of us alive
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Global sea surface temperatures are currently running at all-time record warm levels — even warmer than the unprecedented levels seen in 2023 and 2024. And the impacts on global climate and weather are significant.
It's not just El Nino and the tropical Pacific - sea surface temperatures globally are at record warm levels
And the impacts on global climate and weather are significant
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How to Collapse: Despair in Terminal Decline, Sea Surface Temps Globally at Record Warm Levels, No Oil, No Food, $80 Crude, $170 Reality, Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, The Data Center Water Secret, Climate Crisis Supercharging Europe’s Wildfire Weather… in The Collapse Chronicle!
The Collapse Chronicle August 2
How to Collapse: Despair in Terminal Decline, Sea Surface Temps Globally at Record Warm Levels, No Oil, No Food, $80 Crude, $170 Reality, Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, The Data Center Wat...
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Oceans Full of Heat, Coming Ashore, Climate Scientists Aghast at How Bad Things Are Getting, The World at 3C of Global Warming, The Strongest El Niño in History Is Coming. Get Ready, Why We’re Blind to Civilizational Collapse, Glaciers on Retreat in a Warming World… in The Collapse Chronicle!
The Collapse Chronicle July 2026
Oceans Full of Heat, and It’s Coming Ashore, Climate Scientists Aghast at How Bad Things Are Getting, What The World Looks Like at 3C of Global Warming, The Strongest El Niño in History Is Coming.
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Strongest El Niño in history coming, More F’ed today than yesterday, Effects of Europe and North America wildfires may linger for years, Why Europe is warming 2X global average, What to know about the historic wildfires in France and Spain, Rapid decline in Arctic sea ice… in The Collapse Chronicle!
The Collapse Chronicle July 29
The Strongest El Niño in history is coming.
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Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump traded GEO Group and CoreCivic stocks, two private prison corporations, nearly 30 times in 2025. GEO Group’s profits increased by 700% that year and CoreCivic raked in $650 million in ICE contracts — both benefiting Trump’s stock portfolio. Cashing in on his own cruelty.
If you think people are getting dumber, you could be right. Rising atmospheric CO2 heats the planet, threatening crops and human health. It also threatens human intelligence. The natural trapping of carbon underground millions of years ago arguably enabled human evolution in the first place.
CO2 Make Dumb
Low atmospheric CO2: a prerequisite to human brain evolution
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The declaration by 26 US psychiatric doctors that the US President is mad and constitutes a ‘clear and present danger to the world’ understates the case. Arguably, nine tenths of the world’s nuclear weapons are already in the hands of psychopaths, or else people easily led by them. Not encouraging.
A world run by madmen
The declaration by 26 US psychiatric doctors that the US President is mad and constitutes a ‘clear and present danger to the world’ understates the case.
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No one's ready for the coming civilizational collapse, A world run by madmen, Wildfires displace 270,000 in Spain, France, CO2 make dumb, Losing Earthshine, El Niño: Stop ignoring, start preparing, Africa’s camels dying from extreme heat, Looming techno-absolutist future… in The Collapse Chronicle!
The Collapse Chronicle July 26
No one is ready for the coming civilizational collapse, A world run by madmen, Wildfires displace 270,000 in Spain & France, CO2 make dumb, Losing our Earthshine, El Niño warning: Stop ignoring, start...
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My first politically activity worthy of the name came with Occupy in 2011. It was an exhilarating time, and among the numbers of the local Occupy group were libertarians and right wing types… at least for a while. It seems that opposition to data centers is bringing left and right together again.
The Data Center Protests Looked Typical. They Were Anything But.
Why a “National Day of Action” uniting right and left against the techies portends a potential sea change in American politics.
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Julian Cribb notes that nine tenths of the world’s nuclear weapons are already in the hands of psychopaths, “mentally unbalanced and known serial killers. They include wanted war-criminals Netanyahu and Putin, and the notably irrational Kim Jong Un,” to say nothing of our own nominee.
A world run by madmen
The declaration by 26 US psychiatric doctors that the US President is mad and constitutes a ‘clear and present danger to the world’ understates the case.
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Dave Pollard takes takes on short-termism: “Why ask today’s taxpayers to pay for infrastructure (roads, sewers etc) that will outlive their children, when it’s easier to buy something cheaper“ and kick the can down the road?" Hence the burgeoning enshittification of products and services.
Signs of Collapse: Things That Can No Longer Be Fixed | how to save the world
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Beyond Grief, Things That Can No Longer Be Fixed, ‘End-Time’ Fringe Types Muscling Into Power, The Nightmare Climate Future Is Now, Media Refuses to Connect Dots on Climate Change, Backlash to AI Datacenters Growing Across US, Thousands Flee Wildfires in France, Spain… in The Collapse Chronicle!
The Collapse Chronicle July 24
Beyond Grief, Signs of Collapse: Things That Can No Longer Be Fixed, ‘End-Time’ Fringe Types Muscling Into Power, The Nightmare Climate Future Is Now, Media Refuses to Connect Dots on Climate Change, ...
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Dept. of Donorrhea: The US is going through the largest cyclosporiasis outbreak on record. Thousands of people, mostly in the Midwest, have fallen sick with stomach cramps and severe diarrhea. Authorities have linked the food-borne illnesses to iceberg lettuce grown in Mexico.
Climate: What the cyclospora outbreak reveals
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Oil companies knew its wells were releasing far more methane than companies acknowledged, according to industry documents. Methane is roughly 80 times more potent at trapping the sun’s heat over a 20-year period than CO2, making it a particularly intense short-term driver of climate change.
Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest (Gift Article)
The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry files cited by the Center for Climate Integrity, an activist organization.
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Drew Magary: “These data centers aren’t being built to connect you to what matters most. They’re intended to connect you to big tech’s AI ecosystem, itself was designed to cut you off from other people and the collective value that humans provide one another...” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
If you don't hate data centers yet, boy do I have news for you
SFGATE columnist Drew Magary writes the hater's guide to data centers.
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George Tsakraklides calls it “Necrocapitalism” for good reason. Civilization is no longer run by humans, but by profit and algorithms. We’re enduring worldwide systemic collapse, given uninhabitable temperatures, stretched resources, and escalating violence. Humans are not in the plans.
Capitalism Endgame: When “The Help” Is No Longer Needed
I recently revisited and substantially rewrote one of my many earlier essays on necrocapitalism.
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Being an Antarctic tour guide sounds like a dream job- months among penguins, orcas and glaciers, helping visitors experience one of the world’s most extraordinary and unspoiled places. Yet some are leaving, unable to align their morals with the effects of tourism they were witnessing day after day.
‘I can’t work in the farce of climate change cruise tourism anymore’: why Antarctic guides quit their dream jobs
The moral struggles of guiding tourists through a pristine landscape.
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Dept. of Climate Boundaries Blown Past: Oxygen is disappearing from the world’s aquatic ecosystems. Aquatic ecosystems need oxygen to function normally. Scientists warn that this human-driven, rapidly escalating crisis threatens to upend the biosphere.
Earth's Oceans Are Rapidly Losing Oxygen. It Could Destabilize the Planet
Human activity is draining oxygen from marine waters, and it's past time to take this crisis seriously.
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We’ve posted plenty of articles about an incipient El Niño. Forecasts point to the ongoing El Niño rapidly strengthening to an all-time record in the coming months, fueling temperature rises and extreme weather. It could well bring unprecedented temperature extremes to an already-warming world.
'These are striking forecasts': Super El Niño keeps getting even more likely, and it could bring a humanitarian crisis
Forecasts point to the ongoing El Niño rapidly strengthening to a likely all-time record in the coming months, fueling temperature rises and extreme weather.
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Youth agree: “Humanity is doomed,” Super El Niño likely, could bring humanitarian crisis, Earth’s oceans rapidly lose oxygen, Equatorial glaciers almost gone, Media complicit in climate crisis, Wildfires strain national resources, Europe’s rivers shrinking amid heatwave… in The Collapse Chronicle!
The Collapse Chronicle July 22
62.9% of youth agree: “Humanity is doomed,” Super El Niño likely, could bring humanitarian crisis, Earth’s oceans rapidly losing oxygen, Equatorial glaciers almost gone, Media complicity in the climat...
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George Tsakraklides: “It is incredible what happens to a human once you place them in a buffet: they will overfill their plate and leave behind uneaten food. Greed, by definition, knows no measure. This civilisation is eating through its buffet so quickly the restaurant is going out of business.”
The Sun, The Sea, and The Last Buffet
I’ve been treated to a resort vacation by a close family member as it was the only way I would get to see them this year. I am situated somewhere in the endless parade of industrial-size resorts that ...
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El Niño is here, already looking ‘mind-blowing,’ North American wildfire wars, ‘Fire thunderstorms’ form across US, Smoke without borders, politicians without conscience, The apocalypse sneaks in while a madman rants, “Gradually and then suddenly”- How the oil age ends… in The Collapse Chronicle!
The Collapse Chronicle July 20
El Niño is here, already looking ‘mind-blowing,’ North American wildfire wars, Deadly ‘fire thunderstorms’ form across US, Smoke without borders, politicians without conscience, The apocalypse sneaks ...
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US household debt totaled nearly $19 trillion in Q1 2026, up $18B from the previous quarter and $591 billion from a year earlier. We added $740B in debt in a single year. For context, that’s nearly the entire GDP of the Netherlands... in one year. The $18.8 T is a new record. Some thoughts on debt.
The American Way of Money
“The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.” (Proverbs 22:7)
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The New Planet of Extremes, Heat Dome Broils the Western US, Ontario Armageddon, Minnesota Mayhem, And American West on Fire, Trump Fumes Over Canadian Wildfire Smoke, Threatens Tariffs, They Want To Privatize Our Water, How Long Can You Survive, Schrödinger’s Solvency… in The Collapse Chronicle!
The Collapse Chronicle July 18
The New Planet of Extremes, Heat Dome Broils the Western US, Ontario Armageddon, Minnesota Mayhem, And American West on Fire, Trump Fumes Over Canadian Wildfire Smoke, Threatens Tariffs, They Want To ...
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A new climate study projects major declines in global food production by 2050. This wasn't inevitable. The Human Dragons spent decades protecting fossil fuel profits while delaying climate action. Our children will inherit the consequences. open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...
Dept. of “Who’ll pay? You’ll pay!” A power auction conducted by a giant grid operator is expected to add $6.3 billion in additional charges to consumers and businesses because of electricity needs of data centers.
Data Centers to Add Billions in Power Costs in 13 States (Gift Article)
A power auction conducted by a giant grid operator is expected to add $6.3 billion in additional charges to consumers and businesses because of electricity needs of data centers.
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