The Collapse Chronicle

Mike Meyer asks: Why are things so strange? The strangeness we feel, growing every day, is the panic of the elites who have nothing but materialism and brutal domination. Many people have given up, realizing that the climate disaster will do us in, no matter what we do.

Hannah Ritchie discusses why data can sometimes make climate problems harder to understand, what “cautious optimism” looks like in practice, and ID’s two questions she thinks readers should ask whenever they encounter a new statistic.

Intelligence services warn that climate and ecosystem collapse could drive conflict, migration, famine, and economic instability. The Pentagon has already developed contingency plans for this. Yet governments continue to conceal the full scale of the threat. You have to ask why.

Assuming massive growth in carbon removal is reckless and unwarranted, Regime to loosen methane rules, Disaster coming to Alps within decades, Iran War broke the oil market, Wall Street coming for your burger, AI bust and what it means, Lula killed the Donroe Doctrine… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The Catastrophe We Prefer To Imagine, The Collapse of Modernity, The Point of Prepping, You’re Influenced More Than You Think, 7 Free Survival & First Aid Guides, Inside the Bubble Before It Bursts, The Food Crisis Hiding In Plain Sight… in this edition of The Collapse Chronicle!

The American health insurance industry in a nutshell: pay your premiums, get sick, follow your doctor’s instructions, and your insurance company decides whether saving your life is worth the money. What happens when Americans do the math and decide health insurance isn’t worth buying anymore?

The El Niño climate pattern, scrambling weather worldwide and now exacerbated by warming seas, has devastated communities across the Central American Dry Corridor, an arid region from southern Mexico through Panama. So Honduras is trying to make it rain.

The Catastrophe We Prefer To Imagine, The Collapse of Modernity, What’s The Point of Prepping? Not Just Your Own Survival, You’re Influenced More Than You Think, 7 Free Survival & First Aid Guides, Inside the Bubble Before It Bursts, The Food Crisis Hiding In Plain Sight… in The Collapse Chronicle!

They just canceled your disaster insurance. Nobody sent a letter, 10 warnings about America’s future, US West lost 300 glaciers since the 1960s, Meet the heat storm, Hacking attempts surge, Space war fears rising, The AI story Wall Street doesn’t want to hear… in The Collapse Chronicle!

They canceled your disaster insurance, nobody sent a letter, 10 warnings about America’s future, US West lost 300 glaciers since the '60s, Meet the heat storm, Toledo chemical leak, Hacking attempts surge, Space war fears rise, AI story Wall Street doesn’t want to hear… in The Collapse Chronicle!

Dept. of Unlimited Growth in AI: Shares of data-center infrastructure company Elice Inc. plunged on its trading debut, underscoring lingering concerns about whether the artificial intelligence boom can justify the billions of dollars pouring into the industry.

Giant ‘heat storms’ are scorching Earth, Inside the quest to combat Arctic fires and save the planet’s frozen carbon, The powerful, hidden force behind mass migration: climate change, How close are we to the brink? With only 14 days to prepare, this is what i’d do… in The Collapse Chronicle!

Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

With the news about El Niño, we know the oceans are getting increasingly warmer. Nearly half the world’s reef-building coral species are at risk of extinction. Researchers warn that the accelerating climate crisis is making the danger even worse than the most recent data shows.

The problem with telling people the world's ending, What Earth’s sixth mass extinction event means for humans, Strongest El Niño in 1,000 years? Get prepped and be prepared, apocalypse now or apocalypse averted? Why you can’t learn how to off-grid much of anything anymore… in The Collapse Chronicle!

Apocalypse now and then, AI months away from escaping data centers, AI agent reportedly wipes season of Swedish TV show before premiere, When America collapses, it won’t be an accident, Out of the frying pan to the flood, 5 safest places during martial law… in this edition of The Collapse Chronicle!

Apocalypse now and then, AI months away from escaping data centers, AI agent reportedly wipes season of Swedish TV show before its premiere, When America collapses, it won’t be an accident, Out of the frying pan into the flood, 5 safest places during martial law… in The Collapse Chronicle!

A new ice sheet model projects that the melting of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica will contribute up to 30 millimeters (1.2 inches) of sea level rise by 2100—twice previous estimates—even without additional climate warming.

Earth is sick and getting sicker, We saw a Pompeii-level event less than 3 weeks ago… and so what? Earth’s vital signs in uncharted territory, In 1960, scientists predicted the world would end this year, Scientists knew the Doomsday Glacier was melting but not how quickly… in The Collapse Chronicle!

Earth sick and getting sicker, We witnessed a Pompeii-level event less than 3 weeks ago… so what? Earth’s vital signs in uncharted territory. In 1960, scientists predicted world would end this year, Scientists knew the Doomsday Glacier was melting, but not how quickly… in The Collapse Chronicle!

All the Canaries Are Dead: Human Extinction ‘Now Possible,’ Doctors Warn; They War-Gamed Dimming the Sun. It Went Worse Than You Think, 7 Things You Shouldn't Do to Survive That Only Work in The Movies, Earth’s Climate Approaching Critical Thresholds We Barely Understand… in The Collapse Chronicle!

AI executives preparing for catastrophic incident that could change humanity’s future, Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, 6 prepping myths that need to go, Forgotten survival secrets, Vegetables half as nutritious than 60 years ago… in The Collapse Chronicle!

A 2014 report found that economic elites and groups representing business interests have substantial influence on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. This article is about corporate threats and punishments.

People like to think it’s a historical artifact, but plague is still around. It’s become top of mind since a worker at a research institute in Siberia recently died of pneumonia. Plague has never been eradicated, but we’ve gotten better at preventing its spread with antibiotics.

Another flash flood in Nepal damaged or destroyed four bridges, swept away about three dozen houses, and damaged the construction site of a hydropower plant.

Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event, such as a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.

AI executives preparing for catastrophic incident that could change humanity’s future, Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, 6 prepping myths that need to go, Forgotten survival secrets, Vegetables half as nutritious than 60 years ago… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The real reason they want to change AI to “Super Intelligence,” OpenAI, the money abyss, prepares to consume another $30 billion, Isaias slams into Florida, US drinking water bills up 62% in a decade, Refinery outages pumping up fuel prices more than cost of crude oil… in The Collapse Chronicle!

The real reason they want to call AI “Super Intelligence,” OpenAI, the money abyss, prepares to consume another $30 billion, Isaias slams into Florida, US drinking water bills up 62% in a decade, Refinery outages pumping up fuel prices more than cost of crude oil… in The Collapse Chronicle!

While two-thirds of Americans oppose data center construction in their communities, 26 senators have millions in investments tied directly to the data center buildout, including Sheldon Whitehouse and Susan Collins.

More than 20 civil lawsuits have been filed in state courts seeking to hold the industry responsible for climate damages. The Supreme Court is the place where climate action goes to die. That could change due to the emergence of a powerful field of climate science called attribution science.

Coastal forest loss in North Carolina’s Albermarle-Pamlico Peninsula began accelerating after 2010 and may be speeding up. Researchers used satellite imagery to track coastal forest loss in N.C. from 1985 through 2021 and found the state experienced a 21% loss. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the globe. For thousands of years, the frozen ground of the permafrost has stored dead plants and animals, but the accelerating thaw is allowing them to decay into methane and carbon dioxide. And once it starts, there's no shutting it off.

How Close Are We to the Breaking Point? The Looming Techno-Absolutist Future, Ecomodernism and the Illusion That We're Separate From Nature, Fight for the Living World, El Niño Lands on a Collapsing System, Water Costs Spiking, Top 8 Questions About the “Plague” Situation… in The Collapse Chronicle!

How Close Are We to the Breaking Point? The Looming Techno-Absolutist Future, Ecomodernism and the Illusion We Are Separate From Nature, Fight for the Living World, El Niño Lands on a Collapsing System , Water Costs Spiking, Top 8 Questions About the “Plague” Situation… in The Collapse Chronicle!

It’s hard not to see the traces of gambling money everywhere: in sports broadcasts now blanketed with odds and sportsbook branding, in podcasts underwritten by DraftKings and FanDuel ad money and, yes, in the influencer freaks rocketing to fame thanks to canny marketing spending by offshore casinos.

Pennsylvania's health department reported 977 measles cases as of Friday, according to its website, as the ‌state continues to battle a fast-growing outbreak of the disease. All five people who have died from the disease in Pennsylvania this year were unvaccinated.

Rising Complexity Can't End Any Other Way, Biophysical Margin Call: Why the Bond Market is Pricing in a Metabolic Deficit, America Hurtling Toward a Power Grid Crisis, In 30 Days We’ll Know, So You Hate Gardening, Ponderosa Pines Are Dying, Reports of a Plague in Russia… in The Collapse Chronicle!

Outer Banks towns like Buxton and Rodanthe are poster children for climate change, coal-mine canaries for every sandy coast in the country with houses. The houses aren’t built on land, but on sand never meant to stay still. Homeowners are left with bad options, and FEMA is not riding to the rescue.

Elites Have No Plan for Climate Collapse, The Massacres are Coming, Rising Complexity Cannot End In Any Other Way, Godzilla El Niño A Rehearsal For The Rest Of Our Lives, Europe’s Extreme Summer Triggered Cascading Climate Shocks, A Ringside Seat for Climate Change… in The Collapse Chronicle!

Several Palestinian rights advocates have been detained and had their personal devices searched by Customs and Border Protection while returning to the U.S. from international travel. The regime has been cracking down on Palestinian rights activism, including through a deportation campaign.

America’s homegrown Gestapo can’t keep up with the paperwork. At least 90 people have died in the custody of U.S. immigration agencies, or been killed by their agents, since 20 January 2025. The only official count, ICE's own list of deaths in its detention, includes only 59 of them.

For thousands of years the frozen ground of the permafrost stored dead plants and animals, but the accelerating thaw is allowing them to decay into methane and carbon dioxide. Permafrost is a sleeping giant that will release tons of carbon along with methane.

The longer you have to prepare for a disaster, the more likely you are to walk away mostly intact. This El Niño is a disaster factory, spreading heat around the world and bringing floods to some regions and droughts to others, with stronger El Niños making typical regional impacts more likely.

Elites Have No Plan for Climate Collapse, The Massacres are Coming, Rising Complexity Cannot End In Any Other Way, Godzilla El Niño A Rehearsal For The Rest Of Our Lives, Europe’s Extreme Summer Triggered Cascading Climate Shocks, A Ringside Seat for Climate Change… in The Collapse Chronicle!

While the world looked away, Nepal spoke, Powerful ‘Kelvin wave’ from El Niño may raise sea levels off California. Incoming El Niño so extreme it doesn’t have a scientific name, Climate disasters getting worse , Aarmists were right, So you think you can live off the land… in The Collapse Chronicle!

Outer Banks towns like Buxton and Rodanthe are poster children for climate change, coal-mine canaries for every sandy coast in the country with houses. The houses aren’t built on land, but on sand never meant to stay still. Homeowners are left with bad options, and FEMA is not riding to the rescue.

While the world looked away, Nepal spoke, ‘Kelvin wave’ from super El Niño to raise sea levels off California, Incoming El Niño so extreme there's no scientific name, Climate disasters are getting worse, The alarmists were right, So you think you can live off the land… in The Collapse Chronicle!

8 Stages of Civilizational Collapse, Climate Disaster Accelerating, Planned Descent or Violent Collapse, The Burger Age Collapse, The Post-Collapse Plan, 4B Dead: ‘There Are No Words,’ Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit, Destroying Books to Build a Mind… in The Collapse Chronicle!