‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse

Interview with Dr Luke Kemp

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse

The Climate Crisis and the Dying-Empire Perspective - Wolfgang Knorr

"So in the end, there is hope. And the hope lies in the collapse. Not necessarily in the collapse of the world we have come to know as ‘reality’, but in the collapse of our dependence on its ideas, values, norms and stories."

https://wknorr.substack.com/p/the-climate-crisis-and-the-dying 

Is This Where The Human Evolution Journey Ends?

https://georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/is-this-where-the-human-evolution

"I am becoming more and more confident that we are looking at +3°C of warming BY 2050." - Richard Crim

"Reaching +3°C of warming by 2050 probably means civilizational COLLAPSE by 2050. At least the insurance industry thinks so."

https://richardcrim.substack.com/p/the-crisis-report-107

We're About to Watch Billions Die. Where Does "Empathy" Fit Here?

https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/at-the-end-of-the-world-watch-out-for-the-word-empathy/

what if Malthus was right?

https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/what-if-malthus-was-right

Shut Up About Trump—It's Not Resistance. Why Obsessing Over American Politics is a Waste of Time.

https://collapsecurriculum.substack.com/p/shut-up-about-trumpits-not-resistance?ref=the-sentinel-intelligence.net

The Coming Population Collapse

https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/the-coming-population-collapse

2025: A Civilizational Tipping Point

https://thehonestsorcerer.medium.com/2025-a-civilizational-tipping-point-da84d11a0e35

The world has already ended

https://www.collapsemusings.com/the-world-has-already-ended/

Explainer: who is responsible for the world’s CO₂ emissions? Which countries are the world's largest emitters when adjusting for trade?

https://www.energymonitor.ai/policy/just-transition/explainer-responsible-worlds-co2-emissions/

New Shell CEO Faces Big Dilemma: Should the Company Pump More Oil? Wael Sawan says he expects criticism no matter how he decides to balance the demand for fossil fuels against climate risks

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-shell-ceo-faces-big-dilemma-should-the-company-pump-more-oil-9fa35497

Radical tactics are likely to help the climate movement, not hurt it

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2022/12/radical-tactics-arent-hurting-climate-movement-research/

Future of the human climate niche

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1910114117

This appears to predict a billion refugees at 2.2C of heating and another billion at 3.2C.

Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2108146119

This Is Not The Zombie Apocalypse - Usha Alexander on societal collapse

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/04/this-is-not-the-zombie-apocalypse.html

In a way this is the most positive thing I’ve read for a while, although still scary. It’s long but basically says collapse isn’t necessarily the end of the world (although it's important to note that previous societies which collapsed may not have been analogous to ours), and we need to start imagining the other world that is possible to make it so.

Climate Change and the Dharma of Failure - Roy Scranton on Buddhism in the Anthroposcene

https://therevealer.org/climate-change-and-the-dharma-of-failure/

Not just rice, wheat, India's heatwave to hit mango exports too as production crashes, prices zoom

https://www.timesnownews.com/business-economy/economy/not-just-rice-wheat-indias-heatwave-to-hit-mango-exports-too-as-production-crashes-prices-zoom-article-91857239

Right-Wing Judges Say It’s “Harmless” to Label Climate Activist a Terrorist

https://theintercept.com/2022/06/08/dakota-pipeline-protester-jessica-reznicek-terrorism/

Car tyres produce vastly more particle pollution than exhausts, tests show

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/03/car-tyres-produce-more-particle-pollution-than-exhausts-tests-show

Estimates of economic and environmental damages from tipping points cannot be reconciled with the scientific literature

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2117308119

Steve Lafleur: No, you don’t need to end capitalism to save the environment

https://thehub.ca/2022-05-18/no-you-dont-need-to-end-capitalism-to-save-the-environment/

Ukraine farming group calls for urgent end to ports blockade

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/17/ukraine-farming-group-warns-of-cascade-of-export-bans-without-new-grain-routes

The extraordinary heat wave in India and Pakistan, explained

https://www.vox.com/23057267/india-pakistan-heat-wave-climate-change-coal-south-asia

US and Europe behind majority of global ecological damage, says study

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/06/us-europe-behind-vast-majority-global-ecological-damage-study

Trends in fossil fuel extraction - led by the USA

https://www.sei.org/publications/trends-in-fossil-fuel-extraction/

Surge in public concern over environment and climate linked to rise in protest activity, research shows

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/uk-news/protests-demonstrations-environment-extinction-rebellion-b2065896.html

John Bellamy Foster - against Doomsday scenarios and for an ecological revolution

https://monthlyreview.org/2021/12/01/against-doomsday-scenarios/

why nuclear is not the answer

https://eu.boell.org/en/2021/04/26/7-reasons-why-nuclear-energy-not-answer-solve-climate-change

Posthaste: Canada set to smash oil production record in 2022 — and that's a little bearish for oil. A number of countries will pump oil at record levels next year: IEA.

https://financialpost.com/executive/executive-summary/posthaste-canada-set-to-smash-oil-production-record-in-2022-and-thats-a-little-bearish-for-oil

Many fossil fuel workers like me want to transition to renewables – but we need support - Matt Craigan

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/29/fossil-fuel-workers-transition-renewables-covid

New report: Extreme weather driven by climate change cost the world billions in 2021

https://mediacentre.christianaid.org.uk/new-report-extreme-weather-driven-by-climate-change-cost-the-world-billions-in-2021/

Afghans Suffer in Extreme Drought Made Worse By Climate Change

https://weather.com/photos/news/2021-12-23-afghanistan-drought-climate-change

Is there warming in the pipeline? A multi-model analysis of the Zero Emissions Commitment from CO2

https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/17/2987/2020/

Climate stability becomes a relic of the past in B.C. due to loss of hydrologic stationarity

https://www.straight.com/news/climate-stability-becomes-a-relic-of-past-in-bc-due-to-loss-of-hydrologic-stationarity

Why disruptive climate protests are set to grow, both on the streets and in the workplace

https://fortune.com/2021/11/28/climate-protests-growing-extinction-rebellion-greta-thunberg-rupert-read-insulate-britain-direct-action-civil-disobedience/

Inertia on the pathway to decarbonization

https://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/2016/10/inertia-on-the-pathway-to-decarbonization/

Climate change: Fossil fuel production set to soar over next decade

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58971131

I Am a Carbon Abolitionist

https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/blog/carbon-abolitionist/

China declares coal peak, India readies pollution lockdown days after U.N. climate summit

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/cop26-china-coal-summit/2021/11/15/28810538-45ef-11ec-beca-3cc7103bd814_story.html

Climate change could bring near-unliveable conditions for 3bn people, say scientists

https://www.ft.com/content/072b5c87-7330-459b-a947-be6767a1099d

COP26’s final agreement is a failure and a betrayal of those most vulnerable to climate change

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/cop26-final-agreement-climate-failure-betrayal-1300152

The case for a more radical climate movement

https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/22691428/vox-conversations-climate-change-andreas-malm

A Coal Mine for Every Wildfire - James Butler writes about Andreas Malm’s climate manifestos

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n22/james-butler/a-coal-mine-for-every-wildfire

Climate change and the limits of economic growth

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-11-04/climate-change-and-the-limits-of-economic-growth/

‘Hot air in Glasgow means it’s time for radical leadership’: Read full letter signed by more than 200 academics

 calling for a Real Green Revolution

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/cop26-glasgow-academics-letter-read-b1955324.html

We Can’t Stop Climate Change Without a Transport Revolution

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/11/transport-trains-buses-cars-cop26-climate-crisis-air-pollution-roads

COP26: Emissions of rich put climate goals at risk - study

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-59157836

It’s Really Weird How Little We Talk About Humanity’s Imminent Doom

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/11/03/its-really-weird-how-little-we-talk-about-humanitys-imminent-doom/

Forget 2050, experts say it’s 2030 or bust for net zero emissions

https://www.thecitizen.org.au/articles/forget-2050-experts-say-its-2030-or-bust-for-net-zero-emissions