#depletion — Public Fediverse posts

"At first, the capital stock is too small to release much of the resource. Then the process becomes autocatalytic: active collapse generates more active collapse.

Eventually, resource depletion dominates. There are plenty of moving sticks, but almost no bound structure remains for them to release.

Production falls. That is the Hubbert mechanism in its purest form."

Link (Substack supports Nazis): https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/peak-oil-as-a-stick-bomb

#PeakOil #PeakEverything #FossilFuels #Economy #Resources #Depletion

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/16/it-is-not-only-a-future-certainty-the-disaster-is-already-here-why-we-need-climate-fiction. The problem is, we are faced not just with #climatecrisis, but with #Polycrisis, including, e.g., #resource #depletion, various forms of #pollution, #biodiversity #loss & #overpopulation, as well as the threat of #armed #conflicts. The grotesque #inequality of the #capitalist #system makes it completely #unsustainable, as does its #ecological #parasitism. Failing any successful efforts to change it, it will #collapse. How do you represent THAT in #fiction?

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/wednesday-august-5-2026/

Statistical Characterization Of High Flow Volumes Across The Conterminous United States Supporting Managed Aquifer Recharge
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025WR041955 <-- shared paper
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https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-06-24/california-2024-groundwater-report <-- shared media article
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#water #hydrology #groundwater #watersecurity #waterresources #watersupply #watermanagement #USA #CONUS #aquifer #ManagedAquiferRecharge #MAR #FloodMAR #depletion #overpumping #flood #flooding #recharge #planning #policy #streamflow #extremes #hydrography #highflowvolumes #HFV #model #modeling #uncertainly #siting #screening #usecase #spatialanalysis #geostatics #spatiotemporal #mapping #hydrogeomorphology

https://www.linkedin.com/in/genevieve-r-19341240/

'Genevieve R.
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'Governance | #NZ #Coastal Policy enthusiast | Writer | Public #Health advocate | Sepsis Survivor | ADHD Advocate | Busy unique mind | Proudly #WOKE| All Strong Views my own (proudly)'

#Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

'When I first became involved in advocating for eastern #tarakihi in 2019, #Fisheries New Zealand’s own #science estimated the eastern stock had fallen to around 16% of its unfished #biomass—well below the 20% soft limit and nowhere near the #Harvest Strategy Standard target of 40%.

'Six years later, we’re paying substantially more at the checkout, yet the eastern stock remains well under a rebuilding-plan target.
'Recent projections suggest it is still hovering around the lower management thresholds, with recovery far from assured under current catch settings.
'That should concern every New Zealander.
We’ve somehow normalised the idea that a fish can become increasingly expensive while remaining chronically depleted. Consumers are paying more, commercial operators continue #fishing, and we’re repeatedly told the #fishery is being managed “#sustainably”.

'If this is what #sustainability looks like, perhaps we need to rethink what the word means.

'A truly #sustainable fishery shouldn’t require decades of rebuilding while the stock remains well below the level our own management system says it should achieve. It shouldn’t leave us debating whether 10–20% of the original spawning biomass is acceptable, and it most certainly shouldn’t have us celebrating modest improvements while remaining nowhere near the target.'
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'Perhaps the real question isn’t why the price has risen, it’s whether we’ve convinced ourselves that #depletion has become an acceptable definition of sustainability.
#fisheries #rma #cma #rcep #fisheriesact #protect #enhance #restore

Nature Positive
Australia's collapsing ecosystems declared a 'critical infrastructure'

Australia has destroyed and degraded nature. The remaining collapsing ecosystems are declared a 'critical infrastructure'. This new system of governance to organise life is framed as a 'Nature Positive' policy with the help of a large consulting business.

The remaining nature is now a market not a common good and has no rights (Rights of Nature laws). The ‘more-than-human-worlds’ becomes a market of 'ecosystem services' to serve a few of the human species. Nature is now a mere 'essential infrastructure' like roads, highway, sewers, sewage etc.

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"At least 19 Australian ecosystems have been reported to show signs of collapse or near collapse."
https://soe.dcceew.gov.au/overview/environment/ecosystems

"Nature Positive Plan:
better for the environment, better for business." au gov
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc/publications/nature-positive-plan

"The term “nature-positive”
has become a call to action across society and business." PwC
https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/about/corporate-sustainability/environmental-stewardship/nature.html

##biodiversity #nature #NaturePositive #infrastructure #EcosystemServices #governance #CriticalInfrastructure #KMGBF #depletion #ResourceFrontiers #NatureNegative #Unsustainability

The East Coast Is Sinking [USA]
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/13/climate/flooding-sea-levels-groundwater.html <-- shared media article
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https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad426 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #gischat #remotesensing #subsidence #EastCoast #USA #groundwater #pumping #overextraction #depletion #aquifers #waterresources #saltwaterintrusion #coast #coastal #engineeringgeology #soils #reclamation #sediments #compaction #water #hydrology #dewatering #SLR #sealevel #sealevelrise #climatechange #SLR #glacial #isostaticrebound #geology #landmovement #sedimentation #USGS
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