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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.
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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 6m
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 · 2h
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 · 3h
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 · 8h
“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 · 9h
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.
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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 9h
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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?

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Navigating the Stages of Collapse
Can Broken Systems Be Fixed?
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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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
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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 2d
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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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2d
Gold prices have shattered records this week, briefly topping $4,000/oz. This is worrying the swells. Investors are now treating gold as safer than the dollar, reflecting a deeper anxiety: that faith in U.S. institutions and in the dollar as the world’s reserve currency is eroding. Imagine that.
Gold prices keep hitting records. Wall Street is worried
Gold keeps shattering records, an extreme move for an asset that typically posts single-digit annual gains. Citadel's Ken Griffin calls it “really concerning”
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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2d
George Tsakraklides: “Our necroeconomic system quickly found the magic bullet that secured its immortality: to constantly create new problems just as it solves existing ones, and to profit both from the problems it solves and the new ones it creates.”
A 400-Word History of Capitalism
Humans were not corrupted by capitalism. They created it because they were corrupt in the first place. Capitalism has been accused of creating today’s selfishness, individualism and narcissism, but th...
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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2d
Team Extinction wishes to kill as many of us as possible, as quickly as possible. The world is running out of resources, after all. Citizens have always been expendable in the face of ideology. The only real ideology is greed. The rest are labels to keep us fighting each other.
Team Apocalypse
Death at scale: Oligarchs, Trump, and Christian Nationalists
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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2d
Perceptive article about the truth: the core tenet of capitalism is not a belief in markets but unimpeded growth. Which depends on cheap and abundant oil. We are rapidly approaching the end of growth, after having surpassed an almost infinite number of planetary and resource boundaries.
The End of Degrowth
…or what comes after the realization hits that we've been already in degrowth for fifty years now
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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 2d
Climate Change Affects Global Wind, The End of Degrowth, Team Apocalypse, The Wages of Precarity, 400-Word History of Capitalism, Assault on the Poles, Earth Uncloaked - Catastrophe in Slow Motion, Most of the World Has Set All-time Heat Records, Call The Wealthy's Bluff… in The Collapse Chronicle!
The Collapse Chronicle October 7
Climate Change Affects Global Wind, The End of Degrowth, Team Apocalypse, The Wages of Precarity, A 400-Word History of Capitalism, Assault on the Poles, Earth Uncloaked - Catastrophe in Slow Motion, ...
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 5d
The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.
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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 5d
And this is the truth. One of the reasons we publish this newsletter. Because the billionaire owned legacy media can no longer be trusted.
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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 6d
World on fire– climate crisis accelerates, Wildfires get deadlier, costlier, Imelda pounds Bermuda, 8th N. C. beach house collapses, Water in crisis, Microbes in permafrost awaken, Austerity for many, privilege for few, The arithmetic of survival, We are not peasants… in The Collapse Chronicle!
The Collapse Chronicle October 3
World on fire– climate crisis accelerates, Wildfires get deadlier, cost more, Imelda pounds Bermuda, 8th North Carolina beach house collapses this week, Water in crisis, Microbes in permafrost awaken,...
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