The Philippines is a great example of a nation on the brink, due to an externality, because of their heavy reliance on imported oil.

Nation on brink: this oil crisis may destroy everything we built | Inquirer Opinion

DOE: Philippines’ fuel supply can last up to 50.42 days

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Probabilities are increasing for a "Very Strong El Nino" this summer or fall. What are the potential impacts?

To date, 2026 is averaging 1.48°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline. This is striking because we're still in ENSO-neutral conditions, with El Niño on its way. : r/collapse

Super El Niño next year? Here's the probability of one | king5.com

Buckle Up! Gonna be a wild 12 months coming up : r/collapse

ECMWF | Charts

Possible super El Niño could bring extreme heat, droughts, strong floods - The Washington Post

A Super El Niño is coming. Here’s how a hotter ocean could change the weather near you | CNN

Iran war: Why a super El Niño event poses fresh risks to food costs

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A new paper suggests the carrying capacity of earth is 2.5 billion, just under a third of the current population. What say you? Realistic, or too high or low?

Earth can no longer sustain the global human population - Earth.com

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What a fun little game we play. Step 1: Scientific consensus is too conservative. Step 2: Something happens "shocking scientists". Step 3: Articles are released describing how it happened faster than expected, but don't worry because someone will fix it. Step 4: No changes are made, and the models remain conservative. Repeat.

Earth is warming faster than previously estimated, new study shows - Los Angeles Times

Uh-Oh—Global Warming Is Actually Speeding Up, Scientists Say

Thawing permafrost becomes 25 to 100 times more permeable, experiments find

‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists | US weather | The Guardian

Amazon wildfires have released far more carbon than we thought - Earth.com

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It's not just the current geopolitical situation that's putting food supply under stress - it's been growing for a long time and is getting worse.

‘I’ve never seen anything like it’: Hawaii’s small farmers begin recovery after catastrophic flooding | Hawaii | The Guardian

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UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying | Farming | The Guardian

From gas to grain: Fertilizer disruptions raise risks for food security and trade | UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

How the Iran war could shatter global food security

Australia to Plant Less Wheat as Iran War Deepens Global Fertilizer Supplies - Bloomberg

Palm oil, cocoa, coffee… Who's going to tend to tomorrow's large tropical plantations?

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Established and important US infrastructure is rapidly being demolished, not as a forced response to desperate need, but in the petulant outbursts of a grifting narcissist.

The US government just used a dormant 48-year-old committee to strip endangered species protections from the entire Gulf of Mexico. : r/collapse

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ chose oil drilling over endangered species in the Gulf. This whale could be in particular danger | CNN

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

White House seeks $1.5 tn defense budget as Iran war drives costs

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New updates to economists' thoughts on AI and job loss, and new research shows the "heat island" effect of data centers on more than 340 million people globally.

Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN

States with the most data centers

Economists Are Drawing Stronger Connections Between A.I. and Jobs - The New York Times

Top leadership experts sound the alarm on the AI doomsday: bosses are choosing tech over people | Fortune

Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence \ Anthropic

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