Ian@collapseaphorisms

Forever cautiously optimistic

Evenings friend

"Core prices do not simply follow food prices higher. But there appears to be a significant correlation between the two.
The correlation is strong, with a coefficient of 0.85."

(FT)

#collapse

*nods solemnly and starts flagellating manically*

"We probably need to go back to ~350 ppm CO₂ equivalent for temperatures to stop rising.

We are now above 573 ppm (GHG forcing of +4.1 W/m²).

That's without aerosols cooling things down."

(Leon Simons)

#collapse

It looks terribly polluted. Sad...

Evenings VOID

Fact

Nice

Oh look, food prices have shot up by 93% in Hungary since 2018.

#collapse

"Despite several high-profile delays to near-term climate targets this year, 61 per cent of CEOs are are confident in meeting 2030 net zero goals compared to just 51 per cent in 2024."

(businessgreen.com)

#collapse

Nice!

Indeed. Evenings Eanna...

Oh look, compound heat-drought events reduce water-use efficiency by 11% in soya bean crops and 15% in maize, according to a new paper published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

#GoodLuckWithThat
#collapse

Oh look, it's that awkward part of collapse where the doomers still haven't been proven wrong.

#collapse

Hear, hear

Oh look, gold is trading at $4,061.30 an ounce.

#WASF
#collapse

"US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for the jailing of Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest US city."

(Irish Independent)

#collapse

A gentle reminder: I have never been a fan of man and have incontrovertibly made no bones about it, so please pardon me if I am still nowise a fan of man in the aneurysm-inducing hellscape of 2025.

#collapse

YouTube video by Mr. Rafaello "Laibach - B Mashina" choral remix (iron sky theme)

Personal doomer update: Let's get weird, doomers.

#collapse

youtu.be/iypFcRb_Vtk?...

Hope is the broken promise we make to the future.

Oh look, bird flu has been detected in a large poultry flock in Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

#collapse

"US luxury home sales fell -0.7% YoY in August, to 57,258, the lowest August level in Redfin’s data going back to 2013.

Over the last 4 years, luxury home sales have dropped by -37,359, or -40%."

(The Kobeissi Letter)

#collapse

"New Zealand’s oceans are warming 34% faster than the global average, with NZ$180bn (US$104bn) worth of housing at risk of flooding, a new report about the nation’s marine environment has revealed."

(The Guardian)

#collapse

Oh look, gold is trading at $4,054.20 an ounce.

#WASF
#collapse

Bout time tbf

Fucker

Tick tock...

Evenings, friend

Smiles don't lie

Evenings Eanna

Unintended consequences. Oh dear...

"Global gold stocks have outperformed world semiconductor stocks by 94 percentage points YTD, the largest gap in at least 20 years."

(The Kobeissi Letter)

#collapse

So much winning!

Evenings friend