I edit a newsletter that bears witness to the unwinding and collapse of late stage capitalism. The current system will collapse in the near future due to environmental overshoot and resource constraints.
The Collapse Chronicle
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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?
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.
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!
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...
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.
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!
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.
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.
Jeff Currie argues that the world is drifting toward the largest commodity shock since COVID.
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!
Amid its water crisis, the city declined to supply public records on the Bitcoin mine's usage, citing a state law that allows nondisclosure of an individual customer’s account.
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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Record winter heat in Antarctica is worrying scientists, Earth’s permafrost could soon release hidden ‘deep carbon,’ supercharging warming, Antarctica’s west coast missing an area of sea ice the size ...
Melting permafrost is releasing carbon into the atmosphere, but scientists may have underestimated just how bad the situation may be, a new analysis finds
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are raising the alarm because continuing observations of one of our most important components in the climate system are becoming unsustainable.
The Collapse Chronicle
Peter Gleick
Even as they create and enable expansive virtual worlds, data centers are physical buildings in real communities around the nation and the globe.
theconversation.com
The Start of Doom to Come, 5 Ways Datacenters Endanger Communities, The Coming Food Security Shock, Coming El Niño to be Strongest Ever Recorded, Heatwaves Drive Worldwide Surge in Air Conditioning, U...
