Breaking Down: Collapse

Renewables have made massive strides in the 2020s. I answer the question that still comes up from time to time: Can a successful rollout of renewables save society from collapse?

Tracking the energy transition: Where are we now? | McKinsey

So, where exactly does the US energy transition stand? | Canary Media

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A new UN report officially announced that limiting warming to +1.5C is no longer a viable goal:

Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’ | Climate crisis | The Guardian

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Sources:

Judge Tells RFK Jr. to Stop Using Fake AI Studies on Teen Pregnancy | The New Republic

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Stanford Students Who Criticized Israel - The New York Times

The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”

IRS Softens on Businesses in Wake of Agency Worker Exodus

Wyoming judge weighs transgender woman’s self-defense | Advocate.com

The Trump Administration is Now Claiming That Being a Trans Ally Makes You More Violent. Yes, Really.

James Talarico: "Nothing terrifies them more, than people who show up to vote...

Wyoming Governor Objects to ‘Very Odd’ D.O.J. Election Monitoring - The New York Times

ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database | WIRED

DHS chief says ICE could make arrests at polling places — ignoring federal ban on armed agents at voting sites - Democracy Docket

Mail voting live updates: Judge weighs fate of Trump’s anti-voting executive order - Democracy Docket

ICE owes millions to hospitals and detainees can't get treatment

ICE holds man with stage 4 cancer in detention despite permanent US residency | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian

'Who is Profiting from ICE?' Texas mom's site sparks secret DHS note

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The US military is simultaneously contributing to collapse, as it also says it's working to fight against it (climate change and resulting instability). Meanwhile, it's also tying up its resources, firing all its best people, and opening the world to destabilization.

Sources:

West Point’s only climate scientist fired after insisting on human causes of climate change | US news | The Guardian

DOD Preparing for Climate Change Impacts, Official Says > U.S. Department of War > Defense Department News | U.S. Department of War

The US military’s fatal stance on climate change - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Mission impossible? Quantifying military emissions - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Experts raise concerns of Army readiness amid Pentagon changes under Hegseth

Dan Driscoll’s Parting Shot - The Atlantic

Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations - The Washington Post

Pentagon furious over Washington Post’s Iran war scoop

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A collection of articles highlighting the current mess that is the US. And we're just getting started:

Gary, Indiana’s Suffering in a Blackout Brings a Global Crisis Home - Bloomberg

US kindergarten vaccination rates dip as exemptions hit record high | Vaccines and immunisation | The Guardian

Baby goats had rabies at NC petting zoo, attendees urged to contact health officials | CNN

New Mexico’s largest reservoir shrinks to its lowest level in 55 years

The US has a plan to save the Colorado River. Experts say it won’t be enough to stop the crisis | Colorado river crisis | The Guardian

ICE purchasing Boston Dynamics robots to support operations - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

Nearly 300K California students are homeless, enough to fill 5 Dodger Stadiums: UCLA | KTLA

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A look at stories across the world related to climate change, including the story of a landslide/flash flood along the Tibet/Nepal boarder that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds, and likely thousands.

It's all gone. Flash Flood in Nepal sweeps away cities after cities. : r/collapse

Panama Canal to cut daily ship traffic as drought worsens from El Nino - France 24

Japan's farmers go nocturnal as deadly heat intensifies

‘Like smoking a cigarette’: Indonesia chokes on haze as blazes intensify amid super ‘El Niño’ | Indonesia | The Guardian

Brazil's President Lula hails oil discovery near Amazon river

A melting glacier contributed to the deadly Nepal floods. We can expect more like this : NPR

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A look at several articles highlighting this summer of climate chaos in Europe:

Lake Zurich sees water level hit record low amid drought

European farmers face ‘unprecedented crisis’ after successive heatwaves | Farming | The Guardian

France faces lowest potato yield in over 30 years as drought hits crops

Heat wave-hit Europe logs over 30,000 excess summer deaths: First figures

Europe: Wildfire affected area could triple due to climate change | PreventionWeb

UK to warn citizens to stock up on food amid threat from climate crisis and hostile states | Defence policy | The Guardian

Last year’s output from Norway’s fossil-fuel giant ‘will kill up to 58,000 people’ – EUobserver

Fotograf dokumenterer hvordan norske breer forsvinner – NRK Innlandet – Lokale nyheter, TV og radio

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Sources:

Supreme Court Sides With Trump for Now on Mail Ballot Curbs - Bloomberg

Half the Country Sues to Stop Trump’s Dangerous USPS Mail Ballot Rule | The New Republic

Trump Pardons of Fraudsters Cost Victims Nearly $2 Billion | The New Republic

Trump Administration Ends Corporate Ownership Reporting Rule, Orders U.S. Records Deleted

Texas Secretly Started Torturing Trans Prisoners By Forcibly Detransitioning Them ‘a Few Weeks Ago’

Federal judge strikes down Rubio's immigrant visa freeze on 75 nations | Fox News

20260814175803632_TRUMP_Petition for a Writ of Certiorari.pdf (PDF)

Trump admin says Kennedy Center 'cannot be saved' without his name

Trump administration is preparing to revoke visas of up to 200,000 foreigners | AP News

Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’

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A Substack breaks down the troubles that Europe may experience this winter due to the effects of catabolic collapse:

Blackout Europe: The Coming Winter Energy Crisis

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Two new pieces of research highlight the earth is potentially warming much faster than previously thought, and that the models are wrong (imagine that):

World may warm by 25 per cent more than current projections suggest | New Scientist

Hothouse Earth: arriving sooner than you think…

planetary-solvency.pdf (PDF)

Global warming acceleration in satellite observed lower-tropospheric temperature | Research Square

The world inches closer to catastrophic climate events | AP News

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