The Collapse Chronicle November 1
‘On the brink of an irreversible climate disaster,’ Accepting the irreversible global collapse, Five places where collapse is real, Assessing global catastrophic and existential risks, Unprecedented flooding in Spain, Ecuador in the dark, UAE, Azerbaijan, and Brazil undermine climate leadership with massive fossil fuel plans, More than half of US winter wheat in drought, and more… in The Collapse Chronicle!
Very good newsletter today, albeit with way too much bad news to fully absorb. Is it my imagination or are the crises accelerating? Certainly seems that way.
I have spent much of my life expecting many of these crises to happen one day; Peak Oil, ice caps melting, pandemics, excess population growth hitting a wall, a European war against Russia, a crash in American society, even AMOC turning off, but I doubted I would live long enough to see more than perhaps one or two of them in my lifetime. Yet here we are, on the brink perhaps of ALL of them happening, far too soon!
I feel so privileged to have lived in the golden age of fossil fuels, the richest, longest lived, most peaceable (at least in Western Europe) society there has ever been in all human history. We have been truly blessed as we happily built our 'houses of cards', but we are also so unprepared, physically and psychologically, for what is likely to come next. We simply do not have the experiences to prepare us.
Reality certainly sucks right now. But it IS reality!