# today's contemplation — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover today's contemplation. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Bulletin: August 13–19, 2026](https://olduvai.ca/?p=69789) _2026-08-19 · olduvai · Olduvai.ca_ The Bulletin: August 13–19, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Articles of Interest: August 12–18, 2026 Another Earthshaking Financial Collapse Like 2000 and 2008 is Underway Risk Kills. Will We Ever Learn? Could the Crashing Yen Trigger Hyperinflation in the U.S.? — Global Research \[…\] ## [Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLVI–Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline, Part 3](https://olduvai.ca/?p=69783) _2026-08-16 · olduvai · Olduvai.ca_ Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLVI–Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline, Part 3 shutterstock.com In Part 1 of this Contemplation (see: Website Medium Substack) I argue that Gail Tverberg’s affordability argument complements my supply-side, EROI one. Extraction costs rise as EROI falls, and the subsequent increase in energy prices erodes affordability for… ## [Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLV–Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline, Part 2](https://olduvai.ca/?p=69779) _2026-08-14 · olduvai · Olduvai.ca_ Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLV–Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline, Part 2 stock.adobe.com In Part 1 of this Contemplation (see: Website Medium Substack) I argue that Gail Tverberg’s affordability argument complements my supply-side, EROI one. Extraction costs rise as EROI falls, and the subsequent increase in energy prices erodes affordability for the… ## [The Bulletin: August 6–12, 2026](https://olduvai.ca/?p=69776) _2026-08-12 · olduvai · Olduvai.ca_ The Bulletin: August 6–12, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. BP Retreats Further From Green Energy With Archaea Sale | ZeroHedge How Economic Power Has Shifted Over The Past 200 Years | ZeroHedge De-industrialization | Damn the Matrix The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much \[…\] ## [Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIV–Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline, Part 1](https://olduvai.ca/?p=69771) _2026-08-10 · olduvai · Olduvai.ca_ Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIV–Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline, Part 1 US Changes in Real Income Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline On the heels of my two-part Contemplation that took a look at the supply-side dynamics of hydrocarbons–particularly oil–and the consequences of the geologic reality for our global,… ## [The Bulletin: July 29-August 5, 2026](https://stevebull.substack.com/p/the-bulletin-july-29-august-5-2026) _2026-08-05 · Steve Bull · Today's Contemplation_ This past week’s articles of interest… ## [Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIII–Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 2](https://stevebull.substack.com/p/todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh-e5e) _2026-08-03 · Steve Bull · Today's Contemplation_ Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 2 ## [Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLII–Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 1](https://olduvai.ca/?p=69761) _2026-08-01 · olduvai · Olduvai.ca_ Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLII–Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 1 The Forgotten Foundation My most recent Contemplations have discussed the foundational bases of modernity’s predicament: ecological overshoot, physical limits to growth, the maximum power principle, the mind over reality transition, progress traps, and wetiko. I’ve risked minimising what is perhaps one… ## [(untitled)](https://olduvai.ca/?p=69758) _2026-07-29 · olduvai · Olduvai.ca_ The Bulletin: July 22–28, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. The Forty Million Barrels That Did Not Clear A Climate For Civilization A brief interlude “Gradually and then suddenly”- How the age of oil is ending The Fabian Society: — by Dr. Robert W. \[…\] ## [The Bulletin: July 22–28, 2026](https://stevebull.substack.com/p/the-bulletin-july-2228-2026) _2026-07-29 · Steve Bull · Today's Contemplation_ This past week’s articles of interest… ## [Web Coding With AI, Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/w4Cd0E5kCGCJ) _2026-07-29 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control, open source. ## [Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLI–The Celebration of Our Own Undoing, Part 2](https://olduvai.ca/?p=69754) _2026-07-24 · olduvai · Olduvai.ca_ Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLI–The Celebration of Our Own Undoing, Part 2 discoverthewetiko.com In Part 1 (see: Website, Medium, Substack), I attempted to lay the groundwork for understanding our predicament. I relied on some of the key scientists and researchers I have read. William Catton’s Overshoot argues that our species has greatly overshot the carrying capacity of our \[…\]