The Collapse Chronicle
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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.
This Year in Review is about Death and War. In a year where a billionaire-funded think tank has orchestrated the pillage of our institutions, we’re rubbed the genie of colonialism out of the bottle. Review the best stories from a year better forgotten! collapsechronicle.substack.com/p/the-collap...
December 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This Year in Review is about Death and War. In a year where a billionaire-funded think tank has orchestrated the pillage of our institutions, we’re rubbed the genie of colonialism out of the bottle. Review the best stories from a year better forgotten! collapsechronicle.substack.com/p/the-collap...
Some of the year’s best about the red horse, the harbinger of death and war. A fascist regime ends Pax Americana, starts a war for oil, and facilitates holocaust in Gaza. Byproducts include domestic surveillance and hideous climate costs. Review the news in The Collapse Chronicle Year in Review!
The Collapse Chronicle Year in Review: Death and War
Some of the year’s best about the rider of the red horse, the harbinger of death and war.
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December 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Some of the year’s best about the red horse, the harbinger of death and war. A fascist regime ends Pax Americana, starts a war for oil, and facilitates holocaust in Gaza. Byproducts include domestic surveillance and hideous climate costs. Review the news in The Collapse Chronicle Year in Review!
Our best articles published this year, in The Collapse Chronicle Year in Review!
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December 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Our best articles published this year, in The Collapse Chronicle Year in Review!
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A collection of the best articles published this year in our newsletter, including those about intractable global heating, troubling changes to the Arctic and Antarctic, overshoot, desertification and drought, wildfires, methane clathrates, and… denial. In The Collapse Chronicle Year in Review!
The Collapse Chronicle Year in Review
Climate Crisis #2
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December 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A collection of the best articles published this year in our newsletter, including those about intractable global heating, troubling changes to the Arctic and Antarctic, overshoot, desertification and drought, wildfires, methane clathrates, and… denial. In The Collapse Chronicle Year in Review!
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Is someone preparing to disenfranchise mail-in voters?
Who would want to do a thing like that?
Who would want to do a thing like that?
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Is someone preparing to disenfranchise mail-in voters?
Who would want to do a thing like that?
Who would want to do a thing like that?
We’re back, after spending the last few days reviewing the past year’s posts for year in review newsletters. This is about the climate crisis. There are enough articles under this heading to create two newsletters, so this will be the first of two. Enjoy the Collapse Chronicle Year in Review!
The Collapse Chronicle Year in Review
Climate crisis #1
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December 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
We’re back, after spending the last few days reviewing the past year’s posts for year in review newsletters. This is about the climate crisis. There are enough articles under this heading to create two newsletters, so this will be the first of two. Enjoy the Collapse Chronicle Year in Review!
We’re back, after spending the last few days reviewing the past year’s posts to assemble year in review newsletters. There were enough articles to create two newsletters, so this will be the first of two. Enjoy the Collapse Chronicle Year in Review- Climate Crisis!
The Collapse Chronicle Year in Review
Climate crisis #1
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December 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
We’re back, after spending the last few days reviewing the past year’s posts to assemble year in review newsletters. There were enough articles to create two newsletters, so this will be the first of two. Enjoy the Collapse Chronicle Year in Review- Climate Crisis!
The always-reliable ‘Sarah Connor’ reminds us that when a villain tells you what they are going to do, it’s best to believe them. Next year's plans are documented in The Heritage Foundation's 2025–2026 Policy Priorities and the National Security Strategy. They contain 11 warnings.
11 Warnings for 2026
When they tell you what they're going to do, believe them.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The always-reliable ‘Sarah Connor’ reminds us that when a villain tells you what they are going to do, it’s best to believe them. Next year's plans are documented in The Heritage Foundation's 2025–2026 Policy Priorities and the National Security Strategy. They contain 11 warnings.
I’m fine with insignificance.
December 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I’m fine with insignificance.
A few words of reflection about the holiday break and the future of this newsletter.
A word from behind the curtain
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December 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
A few words of reflection about the holiday break and the future of this newsletter.
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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Seeing a lot of AI-generated holiday memes and images. Reflected on them over the weekend and more in this piece
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December 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Seeing a lot of AI-generated holiday memes and images. Reflected on them over the weekend and more in this piece
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New calculations show a major solar storm could trigger cascading failures across GPS, communications, and navigation.
The next Carrington Event would hit a very different world
New calculations show a major solar storm could trigger cascading failures across GPS, communications, and navigation.
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December 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
New calculations show a major solar storm could trigger cascading failures across GPS, communications, and navigation.
The shit storm around us - none of it should come as a surprise. They told us their plans and now they're acting on them. It was all clearly laid out in Project 2025. Want to know what will happen in 2026? Well, they're telling us again. When they tell you what they're going to do, believe them.
11 Warnings for 2026
When they tell you what they're going to do, believe them.
www.collapse2050.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The shit storm around us - none of it should come as a surprise. They told us their plans and now they're acting on them. It was all clearly laid out in Project 2025. Want to know what will happen in 2026? Well, they're telling us again. When they tell you what they're going to do, believe them.
What will determine our fate when TSHF, the organic free-trade lattes stop arriving, and our frequent flyer card has expired, when the last Prime package has plopped on our doorstep, and Walmart is full of zombies? Not gardens, ammo, canned goods, nor an “off the grid” power supply, but community.
When the Apocalypse Strikes, What Will Save Us?
Pro tip: Not technology.
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December 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
What will determine our fate when TSHF, the organic free-trade lattes stop arriving, and our frequent flyer card has expired, when the last Prime package has plopped on our doorstep, and Walmart is full of zombies? Not gardens, ammo, canned goods, nor an “off the grid” power supply, but community.
A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.
What History’s Fallen Societies Have in Common
A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.
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December 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.
Why Some People See Collapse Earlier Than Others, What History’s Fallen Societies Have in Common, Why Collapse is Inevitable, How The World Ends, 11 Warnings for 2026, The Next Carrington Event, Alaska’s Rivers Red With Toxic Runoff, Worldwide Water Crisis in Slow-Motion… in The Collapse Chronicle!
The Collapse Chronicle Review December 21
ICYMI: Best Stories of the Week
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December 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Why Some People See Collapse Earlier Than Others, What History’s Fallen Societies Have in Common, Why Collapse is Inevitable, How The World Ends, 11 Warnings for 2026, The Next Carrington Event, Alaska’s Rivers Red With Toxic Runoff, Worldwide Water Crisis in Slow-Motion… in The Collapse Chronicle!
“We cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice.” That from more than 50 leading scientists who study the Earth’s frozen regions. Last year ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are likely to have shed around 370 billion tons of ice, with a further 270 billion tons from the world's glaciers.
'We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:' World's Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months
Chris Stokes, Durham University; Florence Colleoni, National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS), and James Kirkham, British Antarctic Survey “We cannot negotiate with the melting p...
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December 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
“We cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice.” That from more than 50 leading scientists who study the Earth’s frozen regions. Last year ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are likely to have shed around 370 billion tons of ice, with a further 270 billion tons from the world's glaciers.
A new study reveals when glacier loss will peak and how warming levels determine how many glaciers survive this century.
Glaciers are disappearing faster than ever, and scientists now know when the loss will peak
A new study reveals when glacier loss will peak and how warming levels determine how many glaciers survive this century.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A new study reveals when glacier loss will peak and how warming levels determine how many glaciers survive this century.
What a Year of Climate Whiplash Really Looked Like, NOAA’s Arctic Report Card: Rapid Warming, Rusting Rivers & Record Ice Decline, Glaciers Disappearing Faster than Ever, America’s Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Big Tech Propaganda Blitz As AI Data Centers Become Toxic… in The Collapse Chronicle!
The Collapse Chronicle December 19
2025, By the Numbers: What a Year of Climate Whiplash Really Looked Like, NOAA’s Arctic Report Card: Rapid Warming, Rusting Rivers & Record Ice Decline, Glaciers Disappearing Faster than Ever, America...
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December 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
What a Year of Climate Whiplash Really Looked Like, NOAA’s Arctic Report Card: Rapid Warming, Rusting Rivers & Record Ice Decline, Glaciers Disappearing Faster than Ever, America’s Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Big Tech Propaganda Blitz As AI Data Centers Become Toxic… in The Collapse Chronicle!
George Tsakraklides: “Religion and the Unhappiness Machine exercised control through the myth of human purpose: not only were we supreme beings, we also had a “divine purpose”. We were meant to excel in everything, using our incredible intelligence to patronisingly preside over the creation”
The Myth of Human Purpose
Yet another way by which religion and the Unhappiness Machine exercised control was through the myth of human purpose: not only were we supreme beings, we also had a “divine purpose”.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
George Tsakraklides: “Religion and the Unhappiness Machine exercised control through the myth of human purpose: not only were we supreme beings, we also had a “divine purpose”. We were meant to excel in everything, using our incredible intelligence to patronisingly preside over the creation”
Samuel Huntington once observed, “America’s elites increasingly define national identity in purely economic and ideological terms, not cultural ones.” The turning point came during the Cold War when capitalism stopped being merely an economic system and became a core part of American identity.
How Capitalism Replaced America
A reflection on contemporary China and the U.S. after their 20th century revolutions
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December 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Samuel Huntington once observed, “America’s elites increasingly define national identity in purely economic and ideological terms, not cultural ones.” The turning point came during the Cold War when capitalism stopped being merely an economic system and became a core part of American identity.
Money About To Get Cheaper But Life About To Get More Expensive, How Capitalism Replaced America, A Civilization of Strangers, The Myth of Human Purpose, Should We Be Talking About Collapse? Climate Hot Takes on 2025, A City Without Water: Harbinger of a Thirsty Planet… in The Collapse Chronicle!
The Collapse Chronicle December 18
Money About To Get Cheaper But Life About To Get More Expensive, How Capitalism Replaced America, A Civilization of Strangers, The Myth of Human Purpose, Should We Be Talking About Collapse?
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December 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Money About To Get Cheaper But Life About To Get More Expensive, How Capitalism Replaced America, A Civilization of Strangers, The Myth of Human Purpose, Should We Be Talking About Collapse? Climate Hot Takes on 2025, A City Without Water: Harbinger of a Thirsty Planet… in The Collapse Chronicle!
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December 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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In post-apocalyptic fiction, the US has ended, but America continues. The question is: How? There's an entire genre of U.S.-centered, post-apocalyptic fiction, with plenty of maps to illustrate its dismal point. That point is not the future, but the present.
America’s post-apocalyptic maps reveal eerily familiar fault lines
In post-apocalyptic fiction, imagined futures turn today’s political and cultural tensions into geography.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
In post-apocalyptic fiction, the US has ended, but America continues. The question is: How? There's an entire genre of U.S.-centered, post-apocalyptic fiction, with plenty of maps to illustrate its dismal point. That point is not the future, but the present.