The Bulletin: April 17–23, 2025

This past week’s articles of interest…

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If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview.

How Climate Change Fuels Increasing Wildfire Disasters

Extended Heatwave in India, Pakistan To Test Survivability

History Will Not Repeat Itself — George Tsakraklides

Zero-Based Extinction: Nature’s Life Support Gets a Sunset Clause

The Structure of Geopolitical Revolutions | Art Berman

Technology Addiction and Lessons

The unregulated link in a toxic supply chain | Grist

The End Of Thinking

What will happen when the world runs out of oil? | 60 Minutes Australia

EIA Says U.S. Oil Production Will Peak in 2027 | OilPrice.com

Unintended Consequences in a Complex World — by Nate Hagens

How Things Break: Hyper-Optimization

Being Certain About Uncertainty — The Honest Sorcerer

2030 Doomsday Scenario: The Great Nuclear Collapse

Poverty and Progress — by Gunnar Rundgren

Our Sad Species | how to save the world

“China Will Never Accept It”: Beijing Warns Countries Against Trade Deal With Trump At China’s Expense | ZeroHedge

What’s “Normal” in a Hyper-Normalized World?

Science Snippets: The Disasters Of Cooking and Heating With Plastic

Pope Francis Failed: Now we Need a New Religion?

From Gridlock to Road Rage: What Collapse Feels Like

The first commercial carbon sequestration plant in the U.S. leaks — Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse

Living In the Shadows

If you have arrived here and get something out of my writing, please consider ordering the trilogy of my ‘fictional’ novel series, Olduvai (PDF files; only $9.99 Canadian), via my website or the link below — the ‘profits’ of which help me to keep my internet presence alive and first book available in print (and is available via various online retailers).

Attempting a new payment system as I am contemplating shutting down my site in the future (given the ever-increasing costs to keep it running).

If you are interested in purchasing any of the 3 books individually or the trilogy, please try the link below indicating which book(s) you are purchasing.

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Book 2: $3.89
Book 3: $3.89
Trilogy: $9.99

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You can also find a variety of resources, particularly my summary notes for a handful of texts, especially William Catton’s Overshoot and Joseph Tainter’s Collapse of Complex Societies: see here.