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Very sad news to relate before I begin my thread – regular commenter, Flippr has passed away. He will be much missed.
“Westerly wind burst after westerly wind burst after westerly wind burst.
“In the equatorial Pacific, these ocean heat-shifting winds show no signs of easing in the months ahead. This repetitive pattern could nudge El Niño’s peak intensity toward the higher-end scenarios.” [Ben Noll]
https://x.com/BenNollWeather/status/2074878677645701324
“Super El Niño ocean threshold reached according to World Climate Service.
“This appears to be ~6 weeks earlier than any other time in history. The sea surface temperature anomaly in the main El Niño 3.4 region reached ~+2°C (+3.6°F). That is the threshold criteria for Super El Niño.” [Jeff Berardelli]
https://x.com/WeatherProf/status/2074938882336960861
“Breaking News! Code: y-axis alert.
“Nino 3.4 SST is now up to 3.63 SD above the 1991-2020 baseline, about 1-in-7000 in the absence of anthropogenic warming. There’s not enough room in a single post to express just how crazy this is.” [Prof Eliot Jacobson]
https://x.com/EliotJacobson/status/2074877444562268400
“How Nunavummiut kept cool during an ‘abnormal’ heat wave this week [Arctic Canada]…
“Akeeagok called the heat “very abnormal.” “It’s really different,” she said. “We’re definitely experiencing climate change first hand, and it’s pretty crazy and sad to see.””
“Massive calving episode in Greenland may foreshadow more rapid ice sheet loss…
“Rising temperatures and increased melting will cause larger lakes that may increase the frequency and magnitude of drainage events, further degrading glaciers and contributing to sea-level rise.”
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-massive-calving-episode-greenland-foreshadow.html
“UK waters hit with extreme heatwave as global sea temperatures reach record levels…
“The forecasters said these elevated temperatures have developed rapidly because of last month’s heat dome, during which most of Europe sweltered in its worst ever heatwave that scientists said would have been impossible without the climate crisis.”
“Amber alert for extreme heat in force as UK braces for longest heatwave in 50 years.
“Temperatures are set to climb to 35C this week as the UK braces for what could be the longest heatwave in 50 years. Amber heat health alerts have been issued by the UK Health Security Agency for the Midlands, eastern and southern England.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/weather/amber-health-ukhsa-heatwave-weather-met-office-b3011014.html
“How water shortages could cripple Britain…
“The Government has an emergency power, known as an Emergency Drought Order, to force water companies to implement rolling water-rationing… If taps were cut off, water hydrants would be plumbed into the mains across the country, with standpipes attached. Households would be forced to queue up at a collection point every day to collect their rations.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/07/09/how-water-shortages-could-cripple-britain/
“UK has ‘no future’ if it fails to act on ecosystem collapse threatening national security.
“Members of parliament have demanded full publication of an explosive report by the UK’s spy leaders that found the collapse of ecosystems overseas would have catastrophic consequences for the UK’s national security, warning that the UK has “no future” if the findings are not urgently acted on.”
“Copernicus: Record heatwave brings hottest June for western Europe during second-warmest June globally.
“June 2026 was the hottest June recorded for western Europe and the second warmest globally. It saw near-record temperatures driven by the highest sea surface temperatures (SSTs) on record for the month, as reported by Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)…”
“Record wildfires in Europe show failure to adapt carries a mounting cost.
“When storm after storm battered the Mediterranean at the start of the year, drowning fields and sending water spurting from plug sockets, few people were fretting about fires. But just four months later, the murky brown floods that swamped towns and fouled homes across western Europe have given way to angry red blazes…”
“EXTRAORDINARY HISTORIC HEAT IN FRANCE; EUROPEAN CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN.
“Avalanches of records pulverized every day in Spain, France and Portugal and will just get worse. Avalanches of records today in FRANCE – 43/45C [113F] every day for weeks. There had never been anything similar.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2074907533148336452
“‘It just feels airless’ – what do the Tour de France riders make of the record-breaking heat?
“…on the eve of the Grand Départ in Barcelona, Spain, France’s interior minister gave local authorities the power to modify and even cancel stages in the event of extreme heat. If such a scenario were to happen, it would be a first in the race’s 112-year history. But with record temperatures, come serious measures. The effects of climate change have become an undeniable reality.”
“Pyrénées wildfires destroy everything in their path: ‘I didn’t think I’d make it out alive’…
“In front of the closed train station, a woman, alone with a bundle under her arm, searched for a ride to Perpignan. “They tell me the smoke is even more toxic for me because I’m undergoing chemotherapy. I don’t have a car and there are no more trains,” she sobbed.”
“Barcelona sets new heat record of 40.5C [104.9F], weather agencies say.
“Scientists say human-driven climate change is increasing the intensity, length and frequency of extreme weather events such as heatwaves. Barcelona registered a maximum temperature of 40.5C on Wednesday, its highest figure in 112 years of records.”
“44c AGAIN IN SPAIN; between Spain and Portugal, temperatures have exceeded 44C [111.2F] every day of the month.
“Today 44.1C at Xativa, widespread 40C even on the northern highlands.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2074550778946052397
“Water Scarcity on the Greek Islands: What’s Behind It, What Comes Next.
“As peak tourist season begins, Greek island communities face a water crisis driven by climate change, aging infrastructure, and rising demand. From Meganisi to Kythnos, island mayors describe key issues faced including emergency measures taken.”
https://www.tovima.com/society/greek-islands-ration-water-as-summer-tourist-season-peaks/
“‘The climate crisis is here’: Cypriot MEPs demand more wildfire protection.
“Cypriot members of the European Parliament on Wednesday demanded that the island be offered more protection from the consequences of wildfires as the Strasbourg plenary session discussed the European Union’s preparedness to deal with fires and heatwaves in the future.”
“The Mediterranean marine heat wave has intensified rapidly following repeated heat domes over Europe, with 78.6% of the basin now experiencing marine heat wave conditions.
“Anomalies up to 5°C. Climate change is driving nearly all of the event.” [Jeff Berardelli]
https://x.com/WeatherProf/status/2074704627069514049
“South Africa is living something unbelievable with summer temperatures in winter.
“Widespread maxes >30C [86F] even on the highlands and records broken and rebroken every day continuously: 31.8C at Paddock 508m asl. The heat will even increase.”
[Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2074774535568498751
“Israel ‘weaponising’ water as parched Jordan fights for supply deal.
“Israel’s refusal to renew a key water supply agreement with Jordan reflects a growing “weaponisation” of water in the region, experts have told The New Arab, after Israeli officials linked future supplies to warmer diplomatic relations with Amman.”
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-weaponising-water-parched-jordan-fights-supply
“Pests and diseases add to climate pressures on Turkish agriculture.
“In recent years, the agricultural sector has been struggling not only with climate-related disasters, such as drought, frost, hail and excessive rainfall, but also with diseases and pests that cause yield and quality losses in crops.”
“Months after devastating floods, Daghestan residents still await compensation.
“Residents of the village of Adilyotar in Russia’s Republic of Dagestan have appealed to Vladimir Putin to personally oversee compensation payments and the issuance of housing certificates following devastating floods that struck the region this spring, AzerNEWS reports.”
https://www.azernews.az/region/260797.html
“51 villages in Dagestan are cut off from road traffic after heavy rain.
“A downpour that has lasted nearly 24 hours in Dagestan has washed away bridges and sections of roads. Rockfalls and mudslides have been reported in mountainous areas… Dagestan has not yet recovered from the spring floods that were record highs for the past 107 years…”
“Dust storm damages fruit farms in Turkmenistan…
“Fruit growers reported heavy losses after strong winds knocked fruit from trees and broke branches. Farmers said the storm followed earlier weather-related setbacks this season, including frost, hail and previous wind events.”
“EXTRAORDINARY WARMTH IN TIBET.
“Almost tropical night above 3500 meters asl! Incredible record minimum of +18.8C [65.8F] yesterday at Lhasa, 3650m asl.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2074839139082506302
“Glacial melt in the Himalayas could alter water chemistry downstream.
“A new study on Rulung Glacier in Ladakh region found that rising temperatures and faster glacier melt are intensifying interactions between meltwater and the rocks beneath the ice, altering the chemistry of water flowing into the Indus river basin.”
“12 cloudbursts in 12 hours: Jammu & Kashmir weather extremes revive concerns over Himalayan disaster risk.
“The 12 cloudbursts reported across Jammu and Kashmir within nearly 12 hours last week have triggered fresh concern among experts, who say the latest spell of extreme weather is consistent with an emerging pattern of more frequent high-intensity rainfall.”
“Torrential rains wreak havoc across Gujarat as Surat floods leave nine dead.
“The monsoon’s intensity over the past 24 hours has been unprecedented. Rainfall was recorded in 195 talukas across Gujarat, while six talukas received more than 10 inches.”
“As Mumbai battles floods, over 1,200 Maharashtra villages rely on water tankers.
“Even as torrential monsoon rains inundate Mumbai and several parts of Maharashtra, the state government on Wednesday acknowledged in the legislative Assembly that large swathes of the state continue to grapple with acute drinking water shortages…”
“Maharashtra’s ‘Cherrapunji’ records 1,635 mm [64.4 inches] rainfall in three days…
““Tamhini recorded massive 1635 mm rain in last 72 hours,” meteorologists said on Wednesday. In a post on X, S D Sanap, scientist at Climate Research and Services, IMD, said that Tamhini Ghat recorded 525 mm rainfall in the last 24 hours ending 8 July…”
“Wayanad landslide death toll rises to five; three still missing [Kerala]…
“Siddique said the postmortem of the bodies would be conducted at the Vythiri Taluk Hospital, following which they would be embalmed at the Kozhikode Government Medical College Hospital. A landslide struck the site of the Anakkompoyil-Meppadi tunnel project, which is being built to connect Wayanad and Kozhikode districts, on July 7.”
“Landslides kill 18 in Rohingya camps as record rains hit southern Bangladesh.
“At least 18 Rohingya, most of them children, were killed by landslides triggered by record rainfall in Cox’s Bazar, local authorities said on Wednesday, as conditions in refugee camps are deteriorating amid decreasing humanitarian support.”
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2650110/world
“Active fault line threatens world’s biggest hydropower project, Chinese geologists warn.
“Chinese geologists have determined that an active fault line directly beneath the world’s largest hydropower project poses a threat to the mega-dam now being built on Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River.”
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT WAVE IN CHINA:
“Records smashed in Xinjiang, Mongolia, Shaanxi, Gansu etc. Absolutely extraordinary event which is rewriting climatic history: 40.1 [104.2F] Lueyang, 39.9 Wenxian, 37.7 Huixian etc. Record heat will continue for any foreseeable future with hundreds of records” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2074832001773805615
“More than 100 animals washed away from Guangxi zoo in Typhoon Maysak floods, 3 lions killed: zoo operator.
“More than 100 animals of over 20 species, including zebras and sika deer, have gone missing after being washed away from a zoo in Guigang, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, during floods triggered by Typhoon Maysak.”
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202607/1365472.shtml
“Nearly 900 snakes, including venomous cobras, escaped after a breeding farm in southern China was caught in floods triggered by Typhoon Maysak.
“One of the escaped reptiles bit a local villager, who was now receiving emergency treatment, officials said.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/china-floods-storms-snakes-farm-escape-b3010893.html
“Taiwan and China brace for Typhoon Bavi after floods kill at least 39.
“Super Typhoon Bavi, one of the most powerful storms in years, is bearing down on Taiwan and China’s eastern coast as the country battles some of its worst flooding in recent memory, with 39 people dead in separate weather disasters across multiple provinces.”
“House collapses as flash flood hits northern Vietnam.
“A two-story house next to a stream collapsed on Wednesday (July 8th after floodwater triggered a landslide and eroded its foundation in Giao Chan Village in Lai Chau province… A person has been reported dead in Lai Chau province as floodwater swept through communities.”
https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idRW628908072026RP1/
“Heavy monsoon rains pound central Korea, forcing evacuations nationwide…
“The cumulative rainfall from Wednesday through 7 a.m. Thursday exceeded 220 mm in the central cities of Daejeon and Cheongju, the KMA said, forecasting up to 200 mm of additional rainfall in the Chungcheong and southern regions through Thursday night.”
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN THAILAND:
“RECORDS SMASHED ALLOVER THE COUNTRY. Thailand is witnessing something extraordinary with hundreds of records smashed no-stop every single day for over 1150 consecutive days; JULY HOTTEST NIGHT IN HISTORY broken 8 times in 8 days and will be re-broken.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2074821430202483193
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN SE ASIA:
“Records smashed everywhere, every day. MINIMUMS INDONESIA (this is the cooler season): 27.0 Ternate, 25.9 Labuha; PHILIPPINES: 28.0 [82.4F] Dagupan.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2074769079253033354
“EXTRAORDINARY – records of Hottest night in history smashed all over Oceania again:
“Min 29.3 [84.7F] Yap – HOTTEST NIGHT IN MICRONESIA HISTORY; Min 29.0 Majuro – HOTTEST JULY NIGHT IN MARSHALL ISLANDS. Over 180 countries and territories are smashing heat records in every Continent.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2074415067806740763
“Nanoplastics found in Antarctic soils for first time, suggesting long-range atmospheric transport…
“Nanoplastics were detected above detection limits in 54% of the 13 topsoil sites, with concentrations up to 295 nanograms per gram of soil. They were also detected in half of the deeper soil layers at lower levels, suggesting some vertical movement or burial.”
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-nanoplastics-antarctic-soils-range-atmospheric.html
“A new study finds climate change threatens the plants Indigenous people rely on — and the knowledge that comes with them…
““The future of biodiversity and the future of Indigenous knowledge are deeply connected, and neither can be fully understood in isolation,” said Roehrdanz. “This study documents the potential risks to that interconnected system and provides an opportunity to plan ahead.””
https://www.conservation.org/news/climate-change-threatens-amazon-plants-and-culture
“Peru Amazon highway tied to 400% dengue surge within 5 kilometers of road.
“Dengue, the world’s most rapidly expanding mosquito-borne disease, causes high fever and flu-like symptoms. Severe cases can lead to serious bleeding, a sudden drop in blood pressure, hemorrhage and death.”
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-peru-amazon-highway-dengue-surge.html
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN COLOMBIA:
“Records smashed al lover the country again with over 40C [104F] at Valledupar… 34.5 Medellin also destroyed its July record. Colombia has been breaking hundreds of records constantly almost at daily basis since 2015.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2074834835235905672
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN HONDURAS:
“We are witnessing something unbelievable with over 220 countries and territories currently smashing heat records. In three centuries of world climatic history there had never been anything like this. 40.4C [104.7F] Choluteca is HONDURAS HOTTEST JULY DAY EVER.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2074778694380290453
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN THE CARIBBEAN:
“Records smashed everywhere from Mexico to Colombia. Widespread MINIMUMS 28/29C [84.2F] from Bahamas to Dominican Republic, Colombia, Cayman, Jamaica. Nearly every tropical country in the world is breaking records. There has never been anything like this.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2074863122884501802
“Lake Powell, a vital reservoir, plunges toward unprecedented low levels as water crisis deepens in US west.
“Lake Powell, the US’s second-largest reservoir, threatens to plunge to unprecedentedly low levels this year after a historically bleak snowpack failed to raise its water level, scientists and water experts have said, adding renewed urgency to stalled talks over how to conserve a water source depended on by tens of millions of people…”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/07/lake-powell-water-crisis
“10 days into battling Aspen Acres Fire, flash flood risk adds new concern for firefighters, front line crews…
“Fire crews and officials have been praying for moisture. They agree some rain is good for the firefight — but too much could mean dangerous runoff for the crews trying to get the blaze under control.”
“Whopper of a heat dome coming, and that’s no exaggeration! In all aspects: size, longevity, and especially intensity this will be extreme.
“The heat dome should shatter all-time records for upper level pressure in the Northern Plain States. Actual Temperatures (not heat index) in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota could hit 110° in spots!” [Jeff Berardelli]
https://x.com/WeatherProf/status/2074818048909791242
“DOUBLED 1000-YR THRESHOLD. There was a remarkable record shattered today near Sandusky, Ohio. 17” of rain in one day!
“The old state record is 10.75” The 1-in-1000 year threshold is only 8.41” in this spot. So this wasn’t just a 1-in-1000 year type event. It was basically impossible, until now.” [Jeff Berardelli]
https://x.com/WeatherProf/status/2074282052107620714
“Saskatoon-area farm reeling after hailstorm wipes out strawberry crops.
“What should have been a routine start to the work day quickly turned into heartbreak for Chloe Kook and her co-workers, who found much of their strawberry crop decimated when they arrived at their Saskatoon-area farm Monday morning.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/11958972/saskatoon-area-farm-reeling-hailstorm-strawberry-crops/
“Gray whales are washing up dead in large numbers along the Pacific Coast..
“According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 145 Pacific gray whales have been found dead on beaches so far this year, including 13 in Alaska. Last year, 179 gray whales were found stranded, including 30 in Alaska.”
“New Zealand Moves To Ban Climate Change Litigation. Will The U.S. Follow?
“As the global support for climate change regulations cools in the current political climate, climate activists are increasingly using the courts as a tool. In response, New Zealand has proposed a bill to limit the ability of individuals to sue high greenhouse gas emitters over the impacts of climate change…”
“Big tech’s lofty climate goals wrecked by energy-hungry AI…
“…as these companies fight to win the AI arms race, their stock prices depend on their ability to integrate AI, which needs energy. Their desire for huge amounts of power has outstripped their commitments to sustainability, so their emissions promises have softened.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/06/ai-climate-crisis
“NATO’s New Enemy Is the Thermometer…
“As last month’s record temperatures across Europe have shown… the territory NATO defends is now far trickier ground. NATO members must make investments that protect the food, water, transportation, energy, and health systems in the societies in which militaries operate.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/08/nato-heat-climate-change/
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“NATO members must make investments that protect the food, water, transportation, energy, and health systems in the societies in which militaries operate”
The military, not the people, lol. A bit late though, crumbling infrstructure worldwide is crumbling and the climate whiplash is not going to make it better.
Meanwhile… “Rising Nato military spending to cause huge spike in emissions, report warns…
“The emissions come from direct sources such as fuel-guzzling combat planes, warships and armored vehicles, as well as indirect emissions from transporting equipment, complex global supply-chains, and the effects of war fighting itself.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/14/nato-military-spending-emissions
Here’s to Flippr.
🍻 A good man and fellow traveler on this dark road. 🥂
May Flipr be at peace!
In honor of Flippr, a down-to-earth, well-informed commenter here.
Now and forever more:
MEH.
And I hated the show upon which his screen name coincided. Maybe I missed the episode where Flipper squeaked out a warning of impending climate catastrophe, and was roundly mocked by the idiot kids.
MEH, indeed, Martin.
He was friendly and thoughtful in his interactions with me; bought me the odd coffee; had no axe to grind or big ego to defend in the comments section; just a decent human being in an era with too few of them.
“But he said there are ways to help them. [gray whales]
“The way to do that is to relist them on the Endangered Species Act, provide the management tools that NOAA needs in order to give these guys the best chance of making it through this climate bottleneck,” Steiner said.”
I’ve started to see this phrase “climate bottleneck.”
As if the planet will cool down soon enough that most life doesn’t die. SIGH.
Climate bottleneck… it’s interesting to watch language stretch as it tries to encapsulate our worsening predicament. “Climate change” has been somewhat supplanted by “climate crisis”, and now “climate breakdown” is gaining favour.
The word “unprecedented” is cropping up so often in my climate threads that it’s starting to lose all meaning. Zeke Hausfather memorably described the heat spike of September 2023 as “gobsmackingly bananas.” It’ll be interesting to see what superlatives climate scientists conjure up to describe what unfolds with this El Nino.
Thanks Pan.
“History shows again and again how Nature points out the folly of man”
Not an ancient Greek philosopher, Arnold Toynbee, or Barbara Tuchman, but Blue Öyster Cult.
The warnings we ignore are repeated over and over and over again all day every day, hidden in plain sight, like an overplayed old rock song.
Our capacity for ignorance rivals our capacity for rapacious hubristic narcissistic destruction of the only home we’ll ever know.
It might have been John Gray who said this:
“The great paradox of natural selection; an ape of the most unfathomable rapacity, able to fathom its own rapacity, report on it, and continue doing it.”
Alien anthropologists would likely recommend a cull.
I love John Gray. I guess it could be slightly amended:
“The great paradox of natural selection; an ape of the most unfathomable rapacity, able to fathom its own rapacity, report on it, and continue doing it until it completely wipes itself out.”
“History shows again and again how Nature points out the folly of man’ … Whose existence points out the folly of Nature.
We are a weird aberration. The bizarre multiplicity of lifeforms throughout evolution suggests to me a universe that delights in novelty, and humans are very good at begetting novelty, so perhaps we are “doing our job”.
It is painful that the corollary of our creative impulses is the destruction of the biosphere, though.
Elon’s Twitter seems to be mostly bots arguing with bots, porn, and mentally ill people with attention and conflict seeking personality disorders, but there is so much great climate change info.
I’m interested to see how food production and distribution changes in the next several years. There are many more super El Niños to come.
X is a very choppy, unkind environment really, with a lot of ill-informed commenters, Survivalist. But there is, as you say, a lot of great climate change info.
I’ve come to rely on it for the climate threads, as it picks up on trends and, often, stories in advance of more traditional media.
Twitter people always reminds me that human dignity isn’t an inherent, universal, and intrinsic quality. It’s either earned, conditionally, or socially constructed. There’s some real human garbage out there.
Our planet is going berserk.
It does feel a bit as if we have poked a bear with a stick, Truth Wizard.
With the elevated summer temps now occurring in the ‘dead of winter’ in the Southern Hemisphere: does it portend the same elevated temps ahead for the coming winter in the Northern Hemisphere?
Or does the Northern half have too much landmass relative to the southern half to achieve drastically higher temps? I have no idea.
In my area of Canada [not the 51st state!] Winter lows can reach to -40 C to -50 C. It would be mind-bending to instead see winter highs of positive 20 to 30 C with lows above zero C.
Bob Shaw Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LyyFIbaU45w
Bryan Adam’s 2:47 minute protest song to the Pres. Orange Squash.
https://open.substack.com/pub/macrogertjan/p/the-gold-story-nobody-is-connecting?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=6s5xp4
A very interesting theory from a financial writer in the Netherlands. Gold from 4 grand up 5X to USD $20,000? Seems well researched & plausible. Time will tell… but in the meantime, inflation continues, bond yields rise ever higher, and global debts grow exponentially.
Bob Shaw Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
Bob, Bryan Adams a Canadian who does not take kindly to Trump’s tariffs and expansionist rhetoric, clearly.
Here he is in his 80’s heyday; it’s one of those tracks that always invokes nostalgia – in me, at least:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eT464L1YRA
Thanks for that link, Bob.
The Luddites were right. Technology and economic growth is a big part of the causes.
I can’t see the use of AI except to put a lot of people out of work, ideal for use in a big war.
Welcome to the site, Mark. I don’t believe you have commented before.
“Rise of the Gen-Z Luddite. Resistance to tech is brewing among digital natives…
“Today’s young Luddites do not shun the digital world entirely, but object to tracking tools, invasive algorithms and devices’ effect on their social lives. Artificial intelligence has added another fear: 70% of Gen Z think AI will have a negative impact on jobs…”
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/07/09/rise-of-the-gen-z-luddite