xraymike79

I am begging you to understand how madness spreads in a society. It's not just blind panic among the ignorant that there's a monster coming. It's smart-sounding people insisting you are a bad person unless you, also, believe in the monster and join the panic.

The Words Humans Use to Describe Nature Are Vanishing, Study Finds Even the words we use to express our connection to nature are dwindling as the demands of modern life isolate us from the non-human world, according to a new study by psychologist Miles Richardson of ...

"These words reflect what people noticed, valued, and wrote about," Richardson writes... "And when their use is plotted over time, a clear decline of around 60% is revealed, particularly from 1850, a time when industrialization and urbanization grew rapidly."
www.sciencealert.com/the-words-hu...

'Like a creeping mold that's spreading across the landscape': Separate dry areas around the world are merging into 'mega-drying' regions at an alarming rate, study finds Unchecked groundwater extraction and climate change have dried continents significantly over the past 22 years, with 101 countries now losing fresh water to the ocean, research reveals.

Earth faces a severe freshwater crisis as satellite data reveals unprecedented losses since 2002, threatening food security for billions and fundamentally altering the planet’s water cycle. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

There Is a 100 Percent Chance That Your Body Is Deeply Contaminated With Dangerous Substances Pollutants like plastics, forever chemicals, carbon exhaust, and bisphenols aren't just aberrations, but staples of life on Earth.

“…those substances are unidentifiable thanks to the tight-lipped world of corporate chemical production, where — as long as the EPA doesn't catch on — the sky's the limit on which compounds a company can pump into food, dump into rivers, and spew into the air.” futurism.com/neoscope/hum...

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

The Lancet estimates that our gluttonous and rapidly accelerating use of plastics is responsible for at least $1.5 trillion a year in health-related damages. We have truly entered the ‘plastocene’, increasing plastic production by more than 200 times since 1950…

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Silent Genocide: How Trump’s America is Choosing Who Lives and Who Dies Structural eugenics isn’t science fiction — it’s happening right now, and if you’re not terrified yet, you should be…

Rather than directly eliminating “undesirable” populations through the horrors of the 20th century’s firing squads and gas chambers, this approach simply withdraws protection from targeted groups while amplifying imaginary threats. open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

Earth Nears Irreversible Climate Tipping Points | Weather.com Scientists say Earth is on the brink of crossing critical climate tipping points, from melting ice sheets to dying rainforests. Once triggered, these changes could accelerate global warming and be imp...

We urgently, urgently need to ditch large parts of our "economy".

We can not continue to fight over money and silly tokens via billions of #bullshitjobs and datacenters full of financial nonsense.

Be rational. Protect your children.

E&E News: Trump’s NOAA downplayed a huge finding: CO2 surged last year Earth might be on track to warm more rapidly than expected, some scientists warn.

CO2 in the atmosphere grew at a record-breaking speed in 2024, surging by 3.7 parts per million, a recent NOAA data analysis has found.
— yet the research largely has flown under the radar after NOAA officials took steps to minimize the announcement. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Just a concerned member of the human race.

The latest data on "total column precipitable water" just came in. March, 2025 ranked 3rd highest March behind 2016 and 2024, which were both El Nino years.

Clausius-Clapeyron: The maximum amount of water vapor the atmosphere can hold increases *exponentially* as a function of temperature.

My latest distraction to numb the pain…poetry. I hope to publish a collection after having written 300. You just spurred me to write my next post and likely my next poem. I will discuss the human desire to know the future.

YouTube video by Kate Willett The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran

The Dystopia Now podcast with @xriskology.bsky.social and @katewillett.bsky.social interviewed @gilduran.com and provides some more in depth discussion of tech bro strategy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee0d...

On Dystopia Now (new podcast) @xriskology.bsky.social and I just did a great series on tech billionaires and politics. Last week we talked to @jacobsilverman.com about the tech right, and this week we talked to @parismarx.com about tech billionaires and Dems. Informative and scary but also, funny

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

It's hard to explain how much this breaks my heart. For both scientific and symbolic reasons, it reinforces my sense of complete hopelessness about the future. This is really, really significant.

Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.

Pentagon ‘DEI’ purge leads to removal of web page on Iwo Jima flag-raiser

Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Yaakov Roth is currently de facto head of DOJ’s civil division. He left Jones Day last month.

Roth has worked with Tikvah Fund, a right wing Jewish group whose leaders published a “manifesto” that railed against “social dysfunction, and demographic decline leading to civilizational suicide.”

I’ve spent some time today going through the dockets in the Mahmoud Khalil case and the one involving the Venezuelans sent to El Salvador.

In both cases, the lead author on key documents arguing for Trump’s extraordinary detentions and deportations is Yaakov Roth.

4 yrs of this crap

Ledger of Lies and Obfuscation I track our demise with proof from studies and graphs,But reason drowns in deniers’ cackling laughs.They falsely refute what’s recorded and true,While deserts expand where&nbs…

A poem I wrote a couple days ago:

collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/2025/03/16/l...

Climate change 'will accelerate' owing to decline in natural carbon storage, says study The natural process of locking away carbon dioxide (CO2) appears to be in decline—and climate change will accelerate as a result, a University of Strathclyde study warns.

Researchers found that the levels of CO2 retained in vegetation through this process, which is known as sequestration, had been increasing at 0.8% per year in the 1960s, but peaked in 2008 and are now falling at 0.25% per year.

phys.org/news/2025-03...

Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America|Hardcover This “stunning call to action to save ourselves and all life on the planet” (Booklist), in the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us, effortlessly demonstrates how climate change i...

Your 'doom quote' for today:

"This is no abstract crisis—it’s the porch you can’t sit on because the heat chokes the air, the well that’s dry for the first time in a century. We’re not waiting for the end; we’re living it ..."

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/before-its...

EPA Decided Protecting the Environment Is Just Too Much The agency is abandoning its mission in a misguided effort to boost an economy it will only end up hurting.

Disregarding for the moment that CO2 will kill us all -
Americans are not ready for a country where you can't drink the water, can't breathe the air, where every river is covered with a 6-inch layer of yellow foam and dead fish.

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

“A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The White House is lying, saying this is a "transition period," requiring short term pain. This is a controlled demolition of entire economies. There is no truth to anything they are saying, and no path to prosperity on this route. It's raw, unbridled terrorism.

Jonestown: “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it” sign, with dead strewn below.

Trump, a cult leader, is testing the loyalty of his followers right now. Will they drink the poison? Will they accept the idea that this is a temporary setback in service of greater glory to come? This is what we are dealing with, and it is pure evil, at global scale.

2. We’re just speeding at a million miles an hour towards ecological collapse. The political, moral, and spiritual implications of that are off the scale.

1. The world is going to go over 2°C in the next decade.

Let's be in no doubt about what will happen: appalling suffering and injustice beyond imagination.

The Mad King He came draped in gold-leaf lies,A jester’s grin, a tyrant’s eyes,“I’ll build great walls to sterilize—”Just close your ears to the orphans’ cries. He vowed to “save” the land from wasteful governm…

He came draped in gold-leaf lies,
A jester’s grin, a tyrant’s eyes,
“I’ll build great walls to sterilize—”
Just close your ears to the orphans’ cries.

collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/2025/03/11/t...