Dept. of Ponzi: You know what private equity does: purchase a business, fire workers, strip productive assets and sell them for parts, then resell the husk to some Greater Fool. Private equity has its greedy eyes on a huge pot of money: 401(k) funds and their big ecosystem of service providers.

George Tsakraklides: “99% of us believe that capitalism is inevitable, nature is irrelevant, and oligarchs should be allowed to become trillionaires because “they worked their ass off” to steal from everyone else.”

James Hansen and other climate researchers have released a report titled “Yes, 2026 is on Track to be the Hottest Year.“ Sarah Connor summarizes what you need to know. Mainstream modelers and the media propagate a flawed interpretation of climate change by underestimating effects already baked in.

AMOC collapse could change Europe’s climate 10x faster than expected, UN: Severe global food crisis coming, Mainstream climate models underestimate warming, What does “collapse” actually mean, The prophet of decline, Hospitals see diseases resurge as vaccinations decline… in The Collapse Chronicle!

It’s out of hand; you may already know. For millions of people, credit card debt has replaced income as a financial safety net and banks are turning household pressure into interest income while Congress looks the other way.

If you've never read, "The Ministry for the Future,", this article may elicit a déjà vu. Official counts of "heatstroke deaths" in India are often low, sometimes just a few hundred in a bad season, because many heat-related deaths are not labelled as such. The toll could be much higher.

Are we willing to invest just five cents per person per year to maintain one of the world’s most important climate monitoring systems? That provides crucial information about a potentially existential risk for Europe?

The Texas observer is doing a tremendous job covering Corpus Christi's growing #water crisis. I recommend their articles. Here they discuss efforts to obtain data on the water use by a cryptocurrency mine, which is being withheld by the utility. www.texasobserver.org/corpus-chris...

Most know that as rising global temperatures melt the permafrost, it releases stored carbon into the atmosphere, enhancing warming. Scientists may have underestimated just how bad the situation may be, a new analysis finds.

Record winter heat in Antarctica worry scientists, Earth’s permafrost could soon release hidden ‘deep carbon,’ Antarctica’s west coast missing sea ice the size of France, India’s extreme heat days, When we used to take World War III seriously, The cost of endless crisis… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The Famine Has Been Canceled, Why You Are Broke and Trapped, Winter’s Snow Drought Now a Full-Blown Water Crisis, People Need Water. AI Wants It More, ‘Severe’ Stress as Sea Level Rise Doubles in 10 Years, Return of Screwworm and the Price of Dismantling Prevention… in The Collapse Chronicle!

Art Berman says that the world is drifting toward the largest commodity shock since COVID. Oil futures are underpriced; physical scarcity is increasing much faster than futures prices suggest.

Almost 30 years ago a farming family deeded land to the City of Taylor, Texas, on condition the city use it for a public park. Taylor sold it to a data center developer, for $10 million in 2025. Now the land that was supposed to belong to the community will become a 135,000 square foot data center.

Every internet search, streamed video and AI-generated meme depends on a data center somewhere. Data centers are physical buildings in real communities with real effects. Each has real-world impacts on air quality, water quality, noise levels, land use and energy costs.

The Start of Doom to Come, 5 Ways Datacenters Endanger Communities, Coming Food Security Shock, Coming El Niño to be Strongest Ever Recorded, Heatwaves Drive Worldwide Surge in Air Conditioning, US Ebola Response Harbinger of Worse to Come, Replacing the US Constitution… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The domestic return of the New World screwworm, a parasite that can devastate cattle herds, happened while the Trump administration was focused on dismantling government.

Americans across multiple states are being urged to conserve water as drought conditions intensify, reservoirs shrink, and utilities issue increasingly urgent warnings. At the same time, a different kind of consumer is quietly demanding unprecedented amounts of water: artificial intelligence.

AI Will Consume as Much Water as 1B People By 2030, Meta Building AI Datacenters in Tents, Last Stable Glaciers on Earth Starting to Collapse, You Want to Stock Up, But Don’t Know How, Ogallala Aquifer Is Dying, As Oil Prices Spike, Talk of ‘Demand Destruction’ Sets In… in The Collapse Chronicle!

Just yesterday, House Republicans voted to strip fruit and vegetable benefits from nearly 5.4 MILLION women and children on WIC. That's on top of Trump's Big Ugly SNAP cuts, as food prices continue to surge. The GOP wants Americans to go hungry to make the rich even richer.

the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

If you trace back the history of our modern capitalist utopia, you can eventually get to the Big Bang moment: enclosure. The commons, the land that fed and housed ordinary people, were taken. Not always through conquest, but often through paperwork and laws. Land used in common became private.

Julian Cribb notes that firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand. And there is almost nothing that can be done to stop it. Roughly 80% of all jobs are susceptible to automation. "The paradoxical result: a more productive economy with far fewer consumers.”

AI Industry Running Out of Time, Democracy v. Data Centers, A Personal History of CO₂, The Population Conundrum, Fertilizer and Starvation, A Society That No Longer Believes in the Future Bets On It, Flesh-Eating Screwworms, The 1% Murdered History with Curated Nostalgia… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The Ogalalla Aquifer has been treated less like ancient groundwater and more like an agricultural checking account with no overdraft warning. What happens when overproduction becomes policy, when fossil water is spent to sustain the illusion of endless abundance, someone has to absorb the cost.

Why Data Centers Are Going Up Everywhere, Who Pays for the Cloud, The Aquifer We Mistook for a Pantry, The Price of a Glass of Water, Regime to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System, El Niño Returns, Hurricane Season Begins, Hormuz Is Decapitating the Oil Age… in The Collapse Chronicle!

Hotter, drier conditions, early snowmelt, stronger storms, and changing seas are affecting health, food systems, infrastructure, research, and aquaculture across the world. It boggles the mind that some consider the abundant evidence of climate change as some left-wing religion.

An unoccupied home in Buxton, NC collapsed on Tuesday night. It’s the fifth home to fall into the ocean this year and the 32nd to fall since May 29, 2020, according to the National Park Service’s records. It’s the 20th home to fall in Buxton.

Get familiar with the expression "tank bottoms." Because it's going to get real familiar with you.

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Dept. of Are We Great Yet? Iran halted all US negotiations on June 1 and vowed to completely block Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb as oil surged $6, erasing its entire 19% May drop. Exxon SVP Neil Chapman warned that $150-160 per barrel is coming as global inventories hit unheard of record lows.

The End of the Nice Life, Collapse As The Framework Which Now Surrounds Us, Global Climate Impacts: Dust Storms, Glacier Loss, Flood Risk, and Arctic Change, Heatwave Misinformation Fuels Online Abuse, What Super ElNino Actually Means, A Fascism Older Than Fascism… in The Collapse Chronicle!

If Data Centers Are So Great, Why Are They Being Built in Secret? AI and Its Discontents, Seven Signs of Collapse You Can’t Afford to Ignore, How Global Warming Is Quietly Dismantling the World Economy, World Getting too Hot to Feed Itself, The Coming Famine… in The Collapse Chronicle May 2026!

AI was promised as a novelty, then it became a convenience, and soon it was an inevitability. Now the cloud is landing in towns, counties, suburbs, and rural communities across the country in the form of massive data centers. Communities are asking why.

You’ve heard it before: The AMOC is facing collapse. The original estimate of collapse @ 2100 worked like a sleeping pill. The current might slow down, but a true shutdown would wait for the future. Then the evidence kept moving. Such that Iceland has considered it a matter of national security.

The Internet is Unsustainable, The Comfort Story Around the AMOC Is Falling Apart, Western Europe Roasting in Unprecedented Spring Heat, India Heatwaves More Brutal Than Ever, Ebola Crisis Could Become Worst on Record, Time to Freak Out About the National Debt… in The Collapse Chronicle!

France hit more than 100F this week. London hit 95F. Extreme heat was reported in more than half a dozen countries, from Portugal to Switzerland. The culprit was a “heat dome” from northern Africa now settled across west Europe. This extreme heat is fueled by unrelenting burning of fossil fuels.

Stephen Miller’s fantasy scenario, removal of more than a quarter of the U.S. population, was posted on X by the official feed of the federal agency charged with immigration enforcement. His problem: this ethnonationalist strategy for white replenishment won’t work.

There was a time when a single report of a prisoner being raped produced a physical revolt in one's body. I’m old enough to remember collective outrage over Abu Ghraib. Yet the reports of the previously unimaginable come daily now. We feel the shiver less. That is what is happening to us.

Dept. of the New Normal: As deadly spring heatwaves sear Europe, scientists warn of a ‘new reality’ of heat extremes that claim three times more lives than car crashes and 16 times as many as murderers.

With AI hype reaching fever pitch and largely responsible for stock prices, a backlash has begun with university graduates. Little surprise that fresh grads are resisting a technology that could quickly render their skills obsolete.

Datacenters are springing up with a wholesale remaking of the American landscape, county by county. Residents are using words like silenced, ignored, secretive, and not seen and not heard. They describe showing up to planning meetings only to find out the decisions have already been made.

Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" is on the brink of losing its ice shelf, further compromising the already melting ice mass and threatening to unleash devastating sea-level rises. The ice shelf is about to detach from the glacier; it restrains the flow of ice from the glacier into the sea.

How Global Warming Is Quietly Dismantling the World Economy, Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Set to Lose Ice Shelf, If Data Centers Are So Great, Why Are They Being Built in Secret? Europe’s Deadly Heat Wave Smashing Records, Uganda Closes Border with Congo over Ebola… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The major wheat-producing region is facing punishing drought, tariffs, and high fertilizer prices.

From Georgia to Nebraska to California, wildfire activity has hit historic levels this spring and is likely to worsen in the coming months, Since the beginning of the year, nearly 30,000 fires have ignited across the country — the most in almost two decades.

“The End of the World” is NOT Coming by 2030, The Future, Unfolding, Wildfire Season Off to a Historic Start, Could Get Worse, National Drought Index Highest in Decade, European Heatwave, SE Asia Swelters, Ebola Death Toll Climbs, New Infections in Uganda… in The Collapse Chronicle!

Scientists are pretty sure that Earth is hotter than at any time in the last 125,000 years, but the news media has moved on. The shift in attention started during Covid and has gathered pace in recent years: Since its peak in 2021, global news coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent.