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An interesting series on the interconnected pieces of what we typically call "the climate".

Part 1 of The Cascade looks at how climate stress, geopolitical chokepoints, pandemics, food systems, energy markets, and institutional fragility interact. The argument isn’t one apocalyptic prediction, but that risks compound when separate systems fail at the same time.

"Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics."