I’m saddened to share that my friend and collaborator Evan Frost has died. Evan spent decades defending forests and in recent years found a public voice here. His work gave context to what we’ve lost, and clarity to what remains at risk. He will be deeply missed.

this is the post that will fix it all

things are fucked, aren’t they.

I love this dude. Also, this is something I regularly do when it snows.

Oh! There’ll be jostling at the ticker tape parade. I’m going to wear a big hat to make me taller so I get a good view.

If you think that something is working both as intended and for the greater good, take a closer look.

Years - decades even - into collapse and people still talk about institutions like they’re functional. They’re not. They’re brittle systems running on human flaws, bureaucratic self-preservation, expired assumptions… The shock isn’t that they’re failing -it’s that people still expect them to work.

I created a Collapse Pressure Index with AI. We are scanning daily all of the CPI vectors. This includes, finance, governments, climate etc. But I feel certain I am missing avenues of potential collapse particularly in Finance? Any help appreciated bracket.us-west.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atp...

"More than half of global food was grown in areas where water storage was declining or unstable" #Collapse

I’ve been trying to figure out the modes of institutional failure in youth protection for the last five months and have written 700 pages about it. It took all my professional competences (4 MsCs, 20+ years) and the final conclusion is that this thing is absolutely fucking stupid beyond diagnosis.

I’m curious about the idea of free will amongst the doomers. To me, it seems an extraordinary blindspot. There’s a system (global industrial civilisation) and it does what it does. Plans about convincing it to not do what it does are extraordinarily pointless.

A sustainability conference goes rogue. open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...

I’m carrying a lot right now. Not the abstract kind - the kind that sits in the body and refuses to move. The world feels heavier than it should, and I feel it in ways I don’t always say out loud. It just hurts. And I’m tired of pretending it doesn’t.

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

#Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #Anxiety #Neurodivergent

@1goodtern.bsky.social generates a painstakingly thorough repository of facts consolidated from publicly available UK data on the impacts of SARS2 beyond the acute phase of infection (whether the acute phase was mild or not). If you’re not already following, I highly recommend doing so.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

The inevitable final form of "Own the libs"

Why do some people see #collapse coming early - even when it costs them socially, professionally, and changes nothing at scale? Here I argue that early perception isn’t about prevention at all, but about preserving adaptive options as systems fail. Thx :) adrianlambert.substack.com/p/if-collaps...

From Jan 2025: "Administration is aware of the changing climate...senior staff have been briefed about the geopolitical implications of a melting arctic, droughts, water shortages and crop failures... in apocalyptic terms." www.collapse2050.com/why-the-u-s-...

I got hit by a car crossing the street, but seemingly was almost entirely out of the way in time. It’s a bit of a blur. Driver likely was checking his phone. I had a white jacket and the street is well-lit. Feeling a mix of shock and guilt. Kept crossing the street as the car approached fast.

Get. Off. X. This isn’t a moral thing. This is a protecting yourself thing. If you go over there to “verify” something and end up inadvertently viewing and thus downloading illegal images, you have – pay attention now – downloaded illegal images

Is there a word describing the management of a country by another? or should we invent one?

"The objective here is literally, physically to destroy this group." Experts in genocide prevention warn that current U.S. policies toward the trans community match historical patterns of mass atrocity. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/trump-admini...

“Do they even have what they say they do? .. “.. John Arnold, the well known former energy hedge fund manager, yesterday on X basically said the 300 billion barrel reserve claim was made up to Hugo Chavez ..” - Boockvar

Doom kicks your door in like a caffeinated baboon, rhymes at you on purpose with a busted‑ass harpoon, and if you don’t like the news you can argue with the monsoon.

A gentle reminder: Whereas hope is a blessing that is cursed, collapse awareness is a curse that's blessed. #collapse

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Civilisation is basically a very elaborate malfunction at this point.

I’ve felt no compunction to contribute more doom to the doom‑inclined.

I seem to have reached the conclusion that I may not be a doomer. There‘s too much civilisationalism in doomerism. There’s grief for humanity in it. Even black hat doomerism holds sentimentalism, I fear. I’m an anti‑civilisational structuralist, or perhaps a collapse‑positive structuralist.

I’m unable to deal with the pain.

I’m debating whether to resign from the newish job. It’s awful. Nice on paper, but there’s micromanagement from hell. I want to build systems to manage the department and the boss wants to be that system. I might burn out before he does.

Hi, I’ve been away for a while because of pain, and it’s been hard. I didn’t want to stay silent any longer, so I thought I’d reach out. I’ve missed talking with you. I’m probably going to erase messages later. Sorry.

I don’t want to live another minute.

People who read one book are more dangerous than people who read none.

If you’re a parent wondering what the fuck the system meant to protect your child is doing, it’s simple. Their theories of the world, such as conflict of loyalty and parental alienation, seem perfectly designed to deny the abuse and blame the protective parent.

"Sometimes, after you’ve exhausted all the advice and warnings, you just have to stand back and let the reckless idiot with the souped up dirt bike jump the canyon." (Donald McCarthy) #collapse

This society is fucked in the head. Deluded assholes everywhere wishing the pillage and destruction could last forever. There’s no positive energy to channel or whatever. It’s fucked in the head and it’s collapsing right as it should. Being itself until it possibly can’t, ever morphing into shit.

7 years of extreme coercive control are culminating right now and it is safe to assume that if I am away for an extended amount of time, I am not coming back.

Not all violence against the doomers is epistemic violence. All violence against realism, which the doomers espouse, is epistemic violence.

I’m still waiting for a critique of “doomers” that isn’t dripping with strawman arguments, shallow optimism, and tone policing. Grief and realism get dismissed as defeatism, while critics wrap their own emotional discomfort in moral superiority.

As soon as it happened, anyone who's aware of cynical political theater & the crimes it catalyzes had that sinking feeling of knowing exactly what it would be weaponized for. chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-martyr...

This society owes us a debt it has no intention of ever paying.

The last act begins: a clown in a burning room laugh echoes, then ash.