The Collapse Chronicle October 14

Rising disaster costs leave US confronting fiscal risks of climate change, Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing? Our food system is broken and we only have 60 harvests left, Wildlife populations drop 73% in 50 years, 'The ocean seems to be changing,' Historic desert heat wave, Christopher Columbus: a monster in his own time, and more… in The Collapse Chronicle!