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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2h

Our economy is a Ponzi scheme with nuclear weapons. While we’re all arguing about whether inflation is transitory or permanent, our entire financial system is quietly bleeding out. We’re drowning in debt and pretending it’s normal.

The Slow Motion Disaster — Nobody Wants to Talk About

The Quiet collapse of the American economy

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2h

Dept. of Your Tax Dollars at Work: Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the Trump administration has yet to release it.

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2h

Every time a host repeats a regime talking point as a question, the propaganda wins twice - once on TV, and once in the minds of Americans.

Stop Answering Their Questions

"How legacy media keeps the Democrats trapped inside the regime’s frame."

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2h

These days, social media can only accomplish two things: It can bore, or it can anger. Every platform is full of hotheads who believe they know everything. Good articles can be found, but are buried under piles of algorithmically-driven content garbage. Cory Doctorow’s “enshittification” has come.

The Death of Social Media

A mixed blessing.

www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net

The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2h

Included in today’s edition is this article which reminds us that we’ve become domesticated humans with emotional support Wi Fi, dependent on convenience. Every “smart” device is just a friendly warden with Bluetooth, dependent on a flimsy grid and the relentless marketing of everything.

DIY or Die Trying

We used to joke about the apocalypse.

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 5h

Over half of annual burned area now occurs outside of natural burn season, the period when lightning and dry conditions naturally coincide. Human activity has added an average of 40 days to the global wildfire season, fundamentally changing when fires occur around the world.

Climate change adds 40 days to worldwide wildfire season | Climate & Capitalism

Over half of annual burned area now occurs outside of natural burn season…

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 5h

The great American success story is built on a broken society. It has the world’s biggest economy, but poverty, inequality, and dysfunction are rampant. Social failure is baked in, a design flaw from a nation forged to serve a wealthy few rather than society as a whole.

Why America’s Great Social Experiment Has Failed

It has the world’s biggest economy, but poverty, inequality, and dysfunction are rampant. Is America a failed social experiment?

www.transformatise.com

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 6h

Wealth soars, poverty deepens and ecosystems are crumbling, Why America's great social experiment has failed, Amazon fires: record-breaking CO2 emissions, A trillion dollar climate risk, The fight for shrinking resources, Death of social media, Regime's war on dissent… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The Collapse Chronicle October 10

Earth at a crossroads: Wealth soars, poverty deepens and ecosystems are crumbling, Why America’s great social experiment has failed, Amazon fires: record-breaking CO2 emissions, A trillion dollar clim...

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 20h

The U.S. Treasury is preparing to commit tens of billions of dollars to Argentina. Chaos monkeys promising unconditional U.S. financial support for unsustainable Argentinian economic policies is a royal road to disaster.

For a Normal U.S. Government to Shoulder "Credit Risk" Can Be Fine. But This Is Not a Normal U.S. Government, Is It?

Chaos monkeys promising unconditional U.S. financial support for unsustainable Argentinian economic policies is a royal road to disaster. Failing to make that transparently clear at the start of...

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 23h

In the plains of southern Iraq, the riverbeds are cracking. Once the lifeline of villages and marshlands, the waters of the Umm al-Tus River have vanished, leaving behind dust, dead reeds, and silence. In a region known as the cradle of civilization, life without water has become a daily ordeal.

Where Mesopotamia once flowed: The dying rivers of southern Iraq - Shafaq News

Shafaq News In the parched plains of southern Iraq, the riverbeds are cracking. Once the lifeline of villages and marshlands, the waters of the Umm al-Tus River have vanished, leaving behind dust,

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 1d

The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere. Hundreds of the wells permitted to expel unused natural gas also release toxic gas close to populated areas.

Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells.

The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 1d

“Polycrisis” describes a time when many crises happen at once and make each crisis worse. Climate change, pollution, loss of species, growing wealth inequality, and political instability are connected results of human behavior.

The Cost of Our Living Is Killing Us and Our Planet

Prologue

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 1d

Climate change creeps until it snaps, like a wire that suddenly whips back and cuts your hand. One moment, stable. The next, irreversible. The pressure accumulates silently, and then releases all at once. Earth’s poles are at that point. Antarctica melts from below; the Arctic burns from above.

The Assault on the Poles Is The Look of No Return

Non-linearity has a face. And it’s already melting.

rickylanusse.medium.com

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 1d

Key unknowns of overshooting 1.5C, The assault on the poles is the look of no return, Cost of our living is killing us and our planet, Dissonance in energy & climate, Dying rivers of southern Iraq, Whooping cough in Florida, Why the price of electricity outpaces inflation… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The Collapse Chronicle October 9

The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting 1.5C, The assault on the poles is the look of no return, The cost of our living is killing us and our planet, Dissonance in energy & climate, The dying rivers of sou...

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 1d

Jessica Wildfire: Gaza has been a training ground for automated killing at unimaginable scale. Military tech firms fed data on 2 million innocent people into killing machines and studied the outcome. The result: "military systems to automate mass killing on a scale unlike anything we've ever seen."

From Gaza to Chicago, It's All Connected

The fascist military occupation is here.

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 1d

You wake up, check your phone, and before your feet even hit the floor, someone’s already made money off your attention. Every click, scroll, and comment is extracted, packaged, and sold to the highest bidder. You think you’re using Facebook, TikTok, Instagram? No. They’re using you.

You’re Not the Customer. You’re the Cow.

You wake up, check your phone, and before your feet even hit the floor, someone’s already made money off your attention.

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2d

Dept. of Unintended Consequences: As a deadly new Ebola outbreak kills dozens in southern Congo, health officials are warning that they lack the funds and resources to mount an effective response.

A new Ebola outbreak in Congo kills dozens as health officials warn of lack of funds

As a deadly new Ebola outbreak kills dozens in southern Congo, health officials are warning that they lack the funds and resources to mount an effective response.

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2d

Worldwide renewable energy capacity is projected to more than double in the next five years, adding the capacity equivalent of all existing power generation sources in China, Japan and the European Union combined, per the IEA. This despite a dramatic decrease in the projection for growth in the US.

Global Renewable Power Capacity Expected to More than Double by 2030 - Inside Climate News

The expansion comes despite a dramatic decrease in the projection for growth in the United States.

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2d

A deep dive with Justin McAffee into the stages of societal collapse exploring what happens when the systems we depend on begin to fail. What’s worth fixing? What should we let fall? And what new systems might emerge from the rubble?

collapsecurriculum.substack.com/p/navigating...

Navigating the Stages of Collapse

Can Broken Systems Be Fixed?

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2d

New research shows massive glaciers in Sierra Nevada projected to melt away by the beginning of the next century.

Glacier melt will lead to ice-free peaks in California for first time in human history

New research shows massive glaciers in Sierra Nevada projected to melt away by the beginning of the next century

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2d

Climate Change And The Boiling Frog Effect, Ice-free Peaks in California, Navigating Stages of Collapse, Diving the Iceberg, New Ebola Outbreak in Congo, Regime Itching to Invoke Insurrection Act, Israel's Biggest Security Threat, From Gaza to Chicago, It's All Connected… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The Collapse Chronicle October 8

Climate Change And The Boiling Frog Effect, Ice-free Peaks in California, Navigating the Stages of Collapse, Diving the Iceberg, New Ebola Outbreak in Congo, Regime Itching to Invoke Insurrection Act,...

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Brock: The top 10% of America’s wealthiest households are now responsible for 50% of all consumer spending. Read that again. Half of all economic activity in the United States depends on the spending decisions of one-tenth of the population. And it’s driving us toward economic catastrophe.

Call The Wealthy's Bluff

The Fusion of Plutocracy and Fascism—And the Fight to Rebuild Democratic Capitalism Before It’s Too Late

www.notesfromthecircus.com

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2d

In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat “discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”

In the Autumn of America’s Empire

In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat “discovered in the course of his unc...

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2d

Richard Crim observes an example of Cognitive dissonance. We can literally SEE our world getting worse each year now. Yet the stock market is at record highs. Do people not see that +3°C of warming by 2050 is like “Mad Max Apocalypse” BAD?

The Crisis Report - 121

Stocks in the US closed at record highs last week as investors shook off shutdown concerns. Meanwhile, the DPG states that Global Warming is accelerating and +3°C (+5.4°F) could be exceeded by 2050.

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 3d

Juliam Cribb writes that forests originally cloaked 57% of earth’s land. Today their area is 31%. 420M hectares of forest have been lost since 1990. Rates of deforestation are worst in Russia, Brazil, Canada, the USA and China. Forest loss is a primary driver of the 6th extinction.

The Earth Uncloaked - a catastrophe in slow motion.

Woodman, spare that tree!

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