A gentle reminder: Becoming a doomer will steal everything from you, except your human dignity. #collapse

Personal doomer update: I think I love this piece of music way too much. #lolz #NightsDoomers #collapse youtu.be/L0AaJJGRW30?si…

Oh look, a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack on Russia triggered an earthquake-sized blast at a major arsenal in the Tver region on Wednesday. #collapse

"Conditions in the Pacific Ocean have become more La Nina-like in recent weeks, but if the weather pattern does form, it is likely to be weak and short-lived, Australia's weather bureau said." (Reuters) #OhDear #collapse

"Climate change is no longer something to worry about in the future, 10 or 20 years from now. It's here and it's here with much more force than we expected." (Romulo Batista, Brazil) #collapse

"The world is spending at least $2.6tn (£2tn) a year on subsidies that drive global heating and destroy nature, according to new analysis." (The Guardian) #collapse

Oh look, India’s climate and environment minister has said that developing countries need more than $5tn to meet their climate goals by 2030 and that $100bn is too small an amount. #GoodLuckWithThat #collapse

"A controversial fatwa — Islamic legal opinion — has been issued in Egypt. It gives a green light to Egyptians to steal electricity, drinking water, gas and other public utilities on the pretext of high prices, inflation and increasing taxes" (middleeastmonitor.com) #collapse

"Hope, like religion, is an evil with no master. It leads us down righteous paths, but will never save us." (Prof Eliot Jacobson) #collapse

"Dealing with the pent-up demand for housing and continued growth in the population [in Ireland] will require building 52,000 homes a year over 25 years, the Central Bank has forecast." (RTE News) #DestroyEverything #collapse

"The global market for green mining is expected to increase from $11.4 billion in 2023 to reach $16.9 billion by 2029, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.4% from 2024 through 2029, according to a new report by BCC Research." (mining.com) #collapse

Oh look, Austria is going to triple its disaster fund to 1 billion euros to deal with the aftermath of the flooding. #collapse

"Australian and US equity markets keep making fresh record highs, ignoring violent and unusual moves in bonds and commodities. Someone has to be wrong." (afr.com) #TickTock #collapse

"This year’s #BigButterflyCount saw the lowest number of butterflies spotted per Count in its 14-year history." (Butterfly Conservation) #collapse

"Fossil fuel companies pumped at least $5.6bn (£4.2bn) of sponsorship money into motorsports, football, golf and even snow sports in an effort to “buy social licence to operate”, according to a new report." (The Guardian) #collapse

The simple fact is that *all* processes carry attendant physical externalisations; and we aren't going to get out of this predicament by producing more, and more advanced, shit. 2/4

"India will drive up to 35% of global energy demand growth over the next 20 years, petroleum minister Hardeep Puri said at the Gastech conference that started on Tuesday in Houston." (oilprice.com) #collapse

"Moody’s has said some 13.5% or $400 billion of the more than $3 trillion junk-debt rated by it is at a high risk of default over the next 12 months" (Reuters) #collapse

"Nigeria's hydrological services agency has warned of potential flooding in 11 states after neighbouring Cameroon said it was starting to release water from one of its largest dams following recent heavy rainfall in West and Central Africa." (Reuters) #collapse

Oh look, Norway said on Wednesday that elevated levels of radioactive caesium it had detected near the Arctic border with Russia were likely due to a forest fire near Chernobyl in Ukraine, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident. #collapse