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“How ‘Godzilla’ El Nino could plunge world into chaos…
“While droughts and storms are bad enough, experts say this could be the strongest El Niño on record, with even more severe potential outcomes. These include flooding, landslides, wildfires, famine, conflict and migration.”
“The looming El Niño could be bad – but much worse is to come.
“However strong this El Niño turns out to be, we can be sure that even more damaging El Niños will occur in the coming decades. Even if future events are no stronger, their effects will be greater in a warmer world.”
“Nearly the entire ice edge around the Arctic Ocean observed below average sea-ice concentration conditions in May 2026.
“Unsurprisingly, this was the most significant around the Barents Sea region, including Svalbard.” [Zack Labe]
https://bsky.app/profile/zacklabe.com/post/3mnfzt7yxoc2v
“Svalbard just shattered its spring temperature record.
“Average spring temperature (Mar-May) at Svalbard Airport ended at an unprecedented -2.9 °C – beating the previous 2016 record by 1.0 °C.”
[Ketil Isaksen]
https://bsky.app/profile/ketilisaksen.bsky.social/post/3mncltd4ppc2o
“Arctic river deltas under pressure: Rapid climate change threatens carbon storage function…
“While this Arctic freezer remained largely stable for many millennia, rising global temperatures are causing the permafrost to thaw. Soil microorganisms then become active over large areas, decompose the organic material and release more carbon into the atmosphere in the form of CO2 and methane.”
“In a warming Arctic, gray whales struggle to find nourishment…
“Some marine scientists first thought the gray whale population was undergoing a cyclical population downturn after a big expansion that had strained their food resources. But the whales have not bounced back…”
https://alaskabeacon.com/2026/06/03/in-a-warming-arctic-gray-whales-struggle-to-find-nourishment/
“Norway experienced its warmest spring on record, public broadcaster NRK reported Tuesday, citing official climate data.
“Climate researcher Jostein Mamen told NRK that the national average temperature was 2.1C (35.8F) above the climate norm, with unusually warm conditions in March and April driving the record.”
“Seven Irish weather stations recorded temperatures of more than 30.6 [87.1F] degrees in May.
“Seven weather stations recorded temperatures of more than 30.6 degrees on May 26th as the national maximum temperature record for the month was exceeded by more than two degrees according to Met Éireann’s Climate Statement for May.”
“France follows England in measuring hottest spring on record…
“Meteo-France said the average nationwide temperature from March to May was 13.8C—about 1.7C above normal and surpassing records set in 2011 and 2020. “The warmest spring since records began in 1900,” it said in a bulletin.”
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-france-england-hottest.html
“Days after heatwave, French government cuts climate change adaptation funds.
“Just days after an unusually early heatwave hit much of France, the government’s spending cuts to address the fallout from the war in the Middle East are now having a major impact on environmental policy… te move is particularly bitter for environmental advocates.”
“Spain registers record high sea temperatures for May.
“Spain registered record sea temperatures for the month of May along much of its coastline, the country’s port authority said on Tuesday… Twelve out of 15 deep-water buoys recorded their highest-ever temperatures for the month of May, as well as six out of 14 buoys along the coast…”
“Spain wildfire: Army called in as 65ft flames force evacuations near Costa Blanca…
“Yesterday evening around 170 soldiers belonging to the specialist UME unit were drafted in to help the firefighters and other emergency responders tackling the fire from the ground and the air.”
“Italy hit by extremes: tornado in Rome, heat in Sicily.
“Extreme weather divided Italy on Wednesday (June 3) where in Rome a tornado caused trees to fall, damaging buildings and cars, while in Sicily temperatures soared to summer levels, well above the seasonal average.”
https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idRW574203062026RP1/
“Czech Republic Sees Driest Spring Since Records Began…
“According to the meteorological data, spring in the Czech Republic has been warming by an average of about 0.3 degrees every ten years, meaning that the 12 warmest springs have been recorded since 2000…”
https://brnodaily.com/2026/06/03/science/czech-republic-sees-driest-spring-since-records-began/
“Water-saving devices given to Cypriots…
“In total, around 75,000 free kits will be distributed to households and premises. Each package will contain four faucet aerators and two shower flow reducers, simple devices that can be attached to existing taps and showerheads to reduce water consumption.”
https://www.ekathimerini.com/economy/1305515/water-saving-devices-given-to-cypriots/
“90% of the Med is in “extreme hot” territory. And this is not a one off. The Med is one of the fastest warming basins.
“In the last 4 decades it’s warmed an astonishing 2-3°C in summer (~5°F) due to climate change! That’s fast.” [Jeff Berardelli]
https://x.com/WeatherProf/status/2062153482954539182
“An exceptional climate event in the heart of the Sahara Desert!
“Heavy floods hit the Issin lakes in Ghat, southwest Libya, following unusual heavy rain over the Tassili mountains. Weather experts are closely monitoring this rare influx of tropical moisture into the deep Sahara Desert. [Arab Storms]
https://x.com/Arab_Storms/status/2062218682160513405
“AFRICA RECORD HEAT.
“HISTORIC HOT NIGHT IN NIGER – those Minimums are the highest ever in June: 32.5 [90.5F] Goure, 32.1 Birni N Konni, 30.6 Magaria.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2062177910945931422
“Nigeria: How climate change is exacerbating religious conflicts.
“Droughts can exacerbate interreligious violence: This is the conclusion reached by an empirical analysis conducted by the Berlin Social Science Center. The researchers propose countermeasures such as improved water and land management.”
“Mining triggers extensive additional deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa…
“For every hectare of direct deforestation due to the mine footprint, mining triggers, on average, 34 hectares of additional offsite loss within five years through ancillary activities, including agriculture and settlements.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10551-2
“After winter 36C days, 18C [64.4F] winter nights in SOUTH AFRICA.
“Minimums >18C at East London (which was just renamed KuGompo -with two capital letters – take note). Record winter hottest night at Grahamstown: min 15.8C.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2061828847759159343
“HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN MIDDLE EAST.
“Another scorching day with records broken in OMAN – 46.4 Qaboos Port (Muscat) all time high, 49.0 [120.2F] Khabourah Monthly record.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2061882019836018711
“Flooding masks Syria’s ‘catastrophic’ water shortage caused by illegal wells.
“A prominent Syrian hydrologist has urged the new authorities to shut down hundreds of thousands of illegal wells that have caused a water “catastrophe” in the country by siphoning from its aquifers.”
“Kazakhstan Turns to U.S. Water Experts as Scarcity Threat Looms.
“Discussions focused on digital water metering, telemetry systems, and technologies to reduce water losses in canals. The U.S. agency also offered training and professional development programs for Kazakh water-management personnel.”
“How the war has made Iran’s water crisis worse…
“Iran was already facing a multi-year drought and decline in precipitation, but the US-Israel war has added to the water woes after desalination plants, water pipelines and other civilian infrastructures were hit.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/2/how-the-war-has-made-irans-water-crisis-worse
“46 houses catch fire in Kot Mithan: Man dies, nine others injured as rain, dust storm wreak havoc in South Punjab [Pakistan].
“An unidentified man was killed and nine others injured, while 46 houses were damaged by fire as strong winds and dust storms wreaked havoc in parts of south Punjab during the last 24 hours.”
https://www.dawn.com/news/2004734
“Warming unlocks ancient carbon in Tibetan permafrost, triggering climate tipping point.
“A new study in Nature Communications finds a critical climate tipping point in Tibetan permafrost ecosystems. Warming of 2–4 degrees Celsius triggers a self-reinforcing cycle of carbon release that could significantly accelerate climate change, according to the work.”
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ancient-carbon-tibetan-permafrost-triggering.html
“Rain-triggering ‘atmospheric rivers’ grow 8% in volume over Japan in 40 years: research…
“The moisture flow of “atmospheric rivers” that bring heavy rain to many parts of the Japanese archipelago has increased by about 8% over Japan during the past four decades, a research team has found.”
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260603/p2a/00m/0na/019000c
“Typhoon Jangmi Leaves Trail of Destruction Across Japan.
“Typhoon Jangmi (Typhoon No. 6) swept across Japan on June 3rd, bringing record-breaking rainfall, widespread flooding, landslides, transport disruptions, and powerful winds, while prompting Tokyo’s first-ever issuance of a Level 4 danger alert under the country’s new weather warning system.”
https://newsonjapan.com/article/149481.php
“ENDLESS RECORD HEAT IN JAPAN:
“Record heat never ends in Japan, more June records in the North: 33.5 [92.3F] Hiwasa, 26.4 Okushiri… Records are falling all over Oceania and all over Asia, every single day for weeks. Never happened anything like this.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2062072319233736856
“1,000-year-old samurai festival confronts modern foe: Extreme heat.
“Until 2024, the festival took place at the height of Japan’s gruelling summers, which had become so hot that riders and spectators were collapsing and horses dying of heatstroke. That prompted organizers to switch the festival to the cooler temperatures of late May.”
“A South Korean beekeeper counts the cost of climate change…
“…rising temperatures due to climate change are shortening seasons, causing flowers to bloom earlier and for shorter periods. The weather changes have also brought strong winds, which can make it harder for bees to find their way back to their hives. Mites and new diseases have also hit the bee population.”
“Tourists rescued after flash floods strand trekking group in Mae Hong Son forest [Thailand]…
“The tourists had been trekking in the forest when heavy downpours caused the Huai Pu River to rise rapidly. The sudden flash floods made it impossible for the group to move forward or safely cross the waterway.”
https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40067024
“RECORD HEAT ALL OVER SE ASIA.
“INDONESIA – 35.6 [96.1F] Manokwari June record destroyed; PHILIPPINES – Min 27.2 Catarman June Hottest night; LAOS – 38.2 Sayabuli June record.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2061804984816050498
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN OCEANIA:
“AUSTRALIA JUNE RECORDS – 29.9 Yeppoon, 23.9 Lord Howe…
HOTTEST JUNE NIGHTS IN HISTORY… 28.9 [84F] MARSHALL ISLANDS HOTTEST JUNE NIGHT IN HISTORY.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2062083317025976597
“El Niño Costero is forecast to intensify and expand during the next two weeks, reaching the coastal waters of Ecuador.
“This is the result of a record-breaking Kelvin wave that has traversed the undersea Pacific since early April.” [Ben Noll]
https://x.com/BenNollWeather/status/2062167584959811645
“Amazon rainforest emits new stress-defense molecules during El Niño drought.
“…climate models suggest that El Niño events will increase in frequency and intensity in this century, so these emissions may become a permanent feature of the region, altering the overlying atmospheric chemistry.”
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-amazon-rainforest-emits-stress-defense.html
“ANOTHER HISTORIC DAY IN THE TROPICAL AMERICAS.
“41.2 [106.2F] Urumita is 0.2C from COLOMBIAN National June heat record; 37.8 Managua NICARAGUA June record; Min. 28.0 Tapachula MEXICO HOTTEST NIGHT EVER; Min 27.8 Tela HONDURAS June hottest night.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2061954350998598125
“Record sargassum seaweed swamps Caribbean, US beaches…
“At the end of May, the largest concentration of the 28.9 million metric tons of sargassum was in the Atlantic east of the Leeward Islands, according to the latest sargassum outlook from the University of South Florida. Amounts in the Gulf, Caribbean, and East Atlantic set records for the month of May…”
“U.S. to Dismantle System Tracking Atlantic Currents That Are at Risk of Collapse.
“The Trump administration is moving to dismantle an ocean observation system consisting of more than 900 instruments in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Data supplied by the system has been used to study key Atlantic currents that increasingly appear in danger of collapse as the climate warms.”
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/trump-ooi-amoc
“Hailstorm hits Denver and causes widespread disruption.
“A powerful hailstorm swept through the US city of Denver, bringing hailstones reportedly as large as golf balls and causing widespread disruption across the area. The severe weather impacted roads and travel as storm cells moved through northeastern Colorado.”
“Hail conditions on the move as winter crops face rising risk…
“The researchers examined 26 major crop types globally. “One of the things that makes this study unique is that we looked at the changes in risk to crops based on the hazard changes that we see in the hail-prone environments,” Dr. Raupach says.”
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-hail-conditions-winter-crops.html
“Massive fire south of Timmins still out of control [Ontario]…
“Jennifer Constant, chief of Mattagami FN, confirmed to CTV News that evacuations of about 160 people by bus began Wednesday morning because of Timmins 9. The fire is about 13 kilometres away. Everyone will be evacuated if the fire gets five kilometres from the community.”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/northern-ontario/article/massive-fire-south-of-timmins-still-out-of-control/
“Canadian forest fires are losing their climate cooling power, says study.
“Historically, carbon emissions from northern forest fires were counteracted by the reflective cooling power of snow cover in charred areas, but that is now under threat.”
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-canadian-forest-climate-cooling-power.html
“Extreme heat raises risk of preterm births, research shows.
“Extreme heat increases the risk of preterm births and can also lead to hospitalizations for childhood convulsions, according to new findings published by research teams at the Institute of Science Tokyo.”
“The planet may become too hot for rice to be cultivated in many areas it currently exists.
“Climate change is pushing rice-growing regions into temperatures beyond those at which rice has been cultivated in the past 9,000 years of human history, new research finds. Research suggests that warming is proceeding 5,000 times faster than rice has ever evolved.”
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More than the speed and recent acceleration with which things are going into the toilet, it is notable how we are proving almost every theory of civilisation collapse, all at the same time: destruction of environment and climate change – tick; inept, sociopathic and blinkered leadership – tick; exhaustion of resources and energy availability- tick; overproduction of elites and negative demographic cycles – tick; misuse of technology – tick; water exhaustion, salinisation and desertification – tick; debt bubbles and currency debasement – tick; marginal complexity inefficiency and falling EROI – tick; Glubb’s penultimate age of decadence – tick(ish).
No invasion from Mongol hordes or high mortality pandemic (yet), and technology seems to be working, not by getting really clever, but by making us really dumb, but otherwise all the theories I’ve seen are covered. Maybe most of these happening concurrently is what it takes, and maybe it is almost inevitable that after a certain time, and relative degree of progress within exogenous boundaries, enough of them always will happen together. Maybe not so much a Jenga tower as a simultaneous detonation or several charges to bring a quarry rock face down.
Thanks George, you “ticked” all the boxes I think. Even the acceleration is accelerating it seems.
Another way to put that is “exponential.” 🥳🤯
George, thank you – that is a good rundown. I found an interesting quote from John Glubb that echoes Tainter:
“Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of the Age of Intellect [which precedes the Age of Decadence] is the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can solve the problems of the world.”
And a loss of social cohesion in many countries…isolationism, resentment, generational discord, sequestration of extreme wealth to a very few. Its a recipe for widespread instability, along with the rest of the factors you have listed George.
August, my apologies that your comments got caught in moderation overnight. I think it’s because you are a first time commenter, in which case welcome to the site.
When are we going to start referring to it as “El Hombre” instead of “El Niño”?
😂
John, El Monstruo is certainly closer to the mark for this one. For those who don’t know the origin of the term:
“The original phrase, El Niño de Navidad, arose centuries ago, when Peruvian fishermen named the weather phenomenon after the newborn Christ.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o%E2%80%93Southern_Oscillation
The Gyroscope
The gyroscope is one of the most “mysterious” instruments humanity has ever devised. A spinning point of orientation, based on opposing forces and vectors.
What strikes me is that we seem to be looking at our own “gyroscopic systems” in a state of near panic, desperately searching for balance, while the underlying energy reality on a planetary scale turns much of this into a rather absurd conjuring trick.
Climate conferences speak of controlling global warming while the Earth’s energy balance has demonstrably shifted. Financial markets speak of growth, AI, supercycles and investments worth tens of trillions, while debt continues to rise, resources become scarcer and the energetic costs of maintaining the system keep increasing.
These are two vectors operating within paradigms of our own making. During the fossil-fuel era, we treated energy and money as vectors within a giant gyroscope, believing that the system could maintain equilibrium and perhaps even restore balance on a planetary scale.
For a while, it seemed to work reasonably well.
The impression emerged that the economy could stabilize itself through markets, while energy supplies would somehow accommodate the climate challenge with a bit less CO₂ emissions.
But we misjudged both the vectors and the scale.
The scale at which the discrepancy becomes visible is staggering, and so we prefer not to look at it.
Human civilization runs on roughly twenty terawatts of primary energy. That is the energetic foundation of our economy, our industry, our agriculture and our transport systems.
Yet the disturbance in the Earth’s energy balance has now reached a magnitude that exceeds this many times over.
The current planetary energy imbalance amounts to roughly four hundred to five hundred terawatts.
While we debate how to allocate our twenty terawatts, the climate system is responding to an additional energy flow approximately twenty-five times larger.
That places many of our economic and political debates in a remarkably lightweight perspective.
Meanwhile, the oceans, atmosphere and land masses continuously absorb extra energy on a scale that exceeds ordinary human imagination.
That is the real paradox of our time.
We continue to debate the distribution of energy within the gyroscope.
Meanwhile, the energy flow that drives the gyroscope itself is changing.
“While we debate how to allocate our twenty terawatts, the climate system is responding to an additional energy flow approximately twenty-five times larger.”
Zip, that is a sobering way of framing it. Our delusions of invincibility are in for a very humbling encounter with physics.
I recently wrote that individual and social time have merged. The goals of globalized society are now identical both in scope and substance with those of a global class of the wealthy and the suburban. This is also true in a more direct sense. The lifetime of this society is identical with that of at least a majority of individuals currently alive. In this, at least, there are no walls and checkpoints separating rich from poor. We were not born equal but we shall die equal.
Jupiviv, right. Economy, premium, business or first class… it won’t matter much when the plane hits the ground.
Meanwhile,
This is what trump posted on social media on May 31st. 57 times. His sundowners are happening in the day time.
Trump had another mental health episode on May 31st and posted over 50 times online:
11:15 AM – Trump attacks judge who said he couldn’t put his name on the Kennedy Center
12:03 PM – Says he may perform and give a speech at the America 250 event instead of artists who cancelled
12:08 PM – Says Obama filled the Reflecting Pool with Garbage
12:09 PM – Attacks Biden
12:09 PM – Posts edited photo of Columbus Circle in DC with the caption “CLEAN”
12:10 PM – Attacks Biden again
12:11 PM – Posts AI photo of him and George Washington riding horses in front of the White House with a space shuttle and race car in the background
12:11 PM – Attacks Rosie O’Donnell
12:11 PM – Posts photo of him in front of the American flag
12:11 PM – Brags about his endorsed candidates winning
12:12 PM – Attack Obama and Biden over the reflecting pool
12:12 PM – Posts photo of him pointing at the camera
12:13 PM – Posts photo of the UFC event cage he’s building at the White House
12:13 PM – Posts an AI image of a “golden dome” for the White House
12:15 PM – Defends Jaxson Dart, calling him a “winner” and his critics “losers”
12:45 PM – Posts an AI image of him as a NY Knicks basketball player dunking on Governor Kathy Hochul
12:56 PM – Posts an AI image of him with Tom Brady
1:03 PM – Posts a garbage can labeling it “The Obama Presidential Library”
1:16 PM – Says America is back
1:16 PM – Says America is back again
1:16 PM – Says America is back for the 3rd time
1:55 PM – Posts an AI image of him golfing
2:55 PM – Says he’s in “excellent health” lol
3:17 PM – Promotes his Fox News interview with Lara Trump
4:33 PM – Attacks the Pope again
4:54 PM – Posts a weird image of him staring at Greenland (which he has posted already)
4:57 PM – Posts an AI image of the “drone port” he wants to build on top of the ballroom
5:33 PM – Attacks Biden
5:33 PM – Attacks Biden x2
5:34 PM – Attacks Biden x3
5:34 PM – Attacks Biden x4
5:34 PM – Attacks Biden x5
5:35 PM – Posts cartoon image of Governors Newsom, Pritzker, and Hochul saying they like crime (Trump is a felon)
5:36 PM – Posts meme about Republicans who voted to release the Epstein files losing their primaries
5:36 PM – Posts an old tweet of his where he attacks “disloyal” Republicans
5:37 PM – Posts an old tweet where he said he wants to stop the world from “killing itself”
5:37 PM – Posts a mock up of a “Trump Peace Prize” which may be the most useless peace prize known to man
5:37 PM – Posts a photo of a B-2 bomber with the caption “Trump energy 2026”
5:37 PM – Posts a photo of his face on Mount Rushmore
5:38 PM – Posts an image of him kissing the American flag (he’s the least patriotic president we’ve ever had)
5:39 PM – Compares himself to George Washington
5:39 PM – Says you were convinced to think a photo of a family sitting on a car is “evil” and billions were spent to do that (???)
5:50 PM – Says we should “physically audit” Fort Knox
5:50 PM – Posts an image of him cosplaying as a navy commander
5:51 PM – Posts another image of his face on Mount Rushmore
5:51 PM – Posts another photo of him and George Washington
6:09 PM – Attacks Biden again
6:09 PM – Attacks Biden x2
6:09 PM – Attacks Biden x3
6:09 PM – Posts an old photo of himself and King Charles
6:12 PM – Posts an old photo of himself and President XI in China
6:12 PM – Posts another photo of himself and President Xi
6:22 PM – Posts a photo of himself walking in China
6:48 PM – Says the U.S. should have a ballroom because China has one
7:03 PM – Says he wants to cancel his America 250 celebration and replace it with a MAGA rally
7:56 PM – Promotes Mark Levin’s show on Fox News
7:59 PM – Promotes his Fox News interview with Lara Trump
All in one day. This man is not well. Impeachment and removal NOW.
Truth Wizard, let’s not go too far down the political rabbit hole.
Politics is inevitably going to turn ever more dysfunctional. I’m not saying that people should meekly accept that, but this is primarily an LtG / climate change blog and I am not temperamentally suited to moderating an angry, political comments section.
What an insane nation. The dismantling of the ocean buoys is pure crime against ALL of humanity.
MAGA is a Crisis Cult.
Indeed the man is not well.
Neither is a country who would a man like that for a leader, or even to be a school crosswalk monitor.
Have some good … thoughts! (cannot call it good news – very unlikely to happen)
… the authors envisage three steps: more than halving average working time from 2,100 hours a year to 1,000 hours, roughly equivalent to a two-and-a-half-day working week; encouraging people to eat less red meat, which is the main driver of deforestation and ecological destruction; and refocusing the economy toward low-consumption activities by more than doubling education spending to €8,400 (£7,250) a person and healthcare spending to €14,400 …
Tackling inequality is a central goal … increase for almost everyone, with the greatest gains in the global south. The exception would be the mega-rich, who would be highly taxed because they are most responsible for the climate crisis.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/world-inequality-lab-equality-academics-planetary-survival
Nice report, but the academic authors don’t disclose how much pot they smoked or ayahuasca they inhaled to get such a massive effort of pie-in-the-sky completed.
Also, Piketty et al forgot to include the necessary mechanisms of enforcement against the uber-powerful transnational corporations currently stoking the engine of commerce toward the cliff of mammalian extinction, but on a day when Space-X is getting Elon to that coveted first trillionaire psychopath level, we’ve all got to admire such sweet, utter disregard of reality.
Mad Hatter, I’m sure there are some good ideas in there but our problem is primarily a biophysical one; not one of political will.
A fairer reallocation of resources would be nice but it is not going to happen in an energy/resource-constrained system that is breaking down under the stress of converging crises.
I sometimes imagine that after the crash – as in the many pockets of humanity crashing today – we’ll see people only able to find tenuous work, eating only what red meat they can kill or steal, and burning the castles of the rich, or dying trying. Equally desperate and impoverished and struggling with the storms and floods, those that remain have a good chance of living more equitably than we in the west have. I’ve often found the most generous people are those used to having little.
Docs and surgeons going to med school and then doing a few to several years of residency in order to work 1000 hours a year is not a great idea.
Does your town have 200 firefighters working 2000 hours a year? Now you need 400 firefighters.
If global warming doesn’t send us into extinction, it will thin out the herd. 😉