Today’s lead story confronts our self-destructive process of using up resources faster than nature can replace them. Overshoot is the root cause behind almost every crisis we face: climate change, deforestation, pollution, soil loss, water scarcity, resource depletion, ocean acidification, mass extinction, economic collapse, and societal breakdown. And the only solution on offer is consuming less and allowing our population to shrink. If we refuse to do this, the correction will still happen, but through famine, war and chaos of a scarcity-conflict death spiral. Read it in today’s edition of The Collapse Chronicle, where subscriptions remain free!