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Michael Corthell's avatar

Indeed…

The 2026 energy crisis is no accident. Geopolitical conflict, overreliance on fossil fuel chokepoints, and shortsighted policy choices have pushed the world to the brink. Explore the causes, consequences, and urgent solutions in this hard-hitting analysis. https://essayx.substack.com/p/the-energy-shock-of-2026-a-crisis

Jim King's avatar

Thanks for this incisive collection of info, reminders, warnings… So much greed and damage and harm half-hiding behind the “glittering objects” that lull and distract us in what we accept as “modernity.” And in the political manipulations that spawn our “leaders” and feed their “charisma.”

As Mr. Rogers heard in key moments from his Mom: look for the helpers.

Thanks for the help your postings provide.

Richard Conniff on Nature's avatar

Thank you, Jim. You're very kind to say so, and, yes, I meant to mention the glittering objects and "modern conveniences" that serve to delude us.

Evan Griswold's avatar

A clarion call for action to improve human health, with environmental benefits from the reduction of acid rain on forests, grasslands, oceans and everything in between. The Trump administration is now shuttering research carried out by such places as Hubbard Brook experimental forest in New Hampshire that first warned of the corrosive effect of acid rain on ecosystems worldwide.

Richard Conniff on Nature's avatar

Yes, this is craziness. Also shutting down the Maryland center that told us about the importance bees, and the upstate NY center that gave us the numbers on urban trees and forests. The better to pave paradise and put up a parking lot, as Joni said.