image by AI; my own prompt Each month I’m finding it harder and harder to distinguish news and articles about “politics and economics as usual” from news and articles about collapse. I guess that means collapse — economic, political, ecological and all the rest of our complex civilization systems — is now well and truly underway. When I started writing about this 23 years ago, it was still considered a lunatic fringe theory. Sixty+ years since Silent Spring. Fifty+ since The Limits to Growth. The writing is still on the wall. But now the wall is crumbling. COLLAPSE WATCH Atmospheric CO2 continues to accelerate; data to March 2026 from Scripps/NOAA Time to ration hydrocarbons: Tim Watkins says it’s time to start rationing energy — for good, in both senses of the word. Not going to happen, of course, and so as affordable energy runs out, it’s going to get much harder much faster. And he explains why it’s going to hit Europe next. “H. sapiens has arguably been socially and ecologically…
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