Surely you can't have failed to notice the bellicose headlines warning of various and sundry paths that lead inexorably to Apocalypse Soon? Perhaps you want to know more, but just don't have time to sort it all out? Maybe you can't decide what is worse - disappearing bees, bats and frogs; rising seas or lowered sperm counts...droughts, floods, hailstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis; exorbitant prices; or just ordinary pollution (and lots of it)?
Welcome and rejoice, doomer fans and neophytes too, you have found the most capacious and concise virtual map of converging catastrophes ever devised - a dynamically current compendium...because YOU can add to it!
Don't be mad about redundancies, or annoyed about omissions, or perplexed by non sequiturs. It's a BIG subject, and it is presented unfinished (because it will never be finished, until the grid goes down). Contribute, don't - whine. And do it soon, before the lights go out for good and this list is lost forever!
Hope
~ George Frederic Watts, 1886
Now that you've started to suspect that humanity is FUBAR (f*cked up beyond all repair) don't be intimidated! This, as a public service, is your official guide to the avalanche of resources, links, citations, quotes and insider terminology you'll need to for quick access in order to fully comprehend the epic dimensions of our imminent demented end.
At last, with a minimum of effort and no research on your part, you can impress your friends when you display your in-depth familiarity with immortal quotes, your dazzling facility with doomer intellectual history, cheesy movies, profoundly dreary books, and egomaniacal pontificaters...PLUS the scientific basis for Doom - once they too, finally, start to wake the hell up!
Coming to terms with the inevitability of planetary ecosystem collapse, and the inescapable verity that it has been caused by humanity's barbaric rampage through nature, can be a challenge. Accepting the human propensity for terminal overshoot is usually shunned as too dismal, but for those who seek truth, it is essential. This compilation explores the reasons our degenerate species is incapable of intelligent choices that might have spared us from compulsively unraveling the fabric of life on our home, Earth...as elucidated by the greatest thinkers (and plenty of the lesser), who expound on the topic.
And cheer up. It may be the beginning of the end, but of all times in human history, you have the privilege and dumb luck to be situated here as the converging catastrophes jostle for pre-eminence, where from your vantage of ringside seats at the finish line, most likely you will see which prevails. Unless there's a tie.
There are several categories that delineate our path to destruction - yes, that Apocalypsi in the title is plural...but oh, none of them include survivalists/gun lovers/truthers/haters....Because. They are stupid. And none of them include state surveillance and fascism - because George Orwell and Aldous Huxley and Noam Chomsky and a bunch of guys from the Stalin reign covered that ages ago - nor do we include the threat (certainty?) of WWIII or a nuclear holocaust, because those potentials are merely the consequence of terminal overshoot. And we don't worry about AI either, because we are all going to be dead before robots get smart enough to self-replicate.
Ready??
1. The *1* indispensable symbol:
...it's an hourglass shape, because...time has run out - get it???
7 major scourges of Doom (and why their adherents squabble over the scraps rather than accomplish anything useful together whatsoever).
1. Peak Oil (rarely recognizes peak anything else, generally fixated on doomsteading)
2. Ecosystem Collapse (an ecological perspective about pollution, whole systems destruction)
3. Climate Change (yes, it's real, it's caused by humans, and it's an existential threat)
4. Overpopulation (no, the world doesn't need your offspring because you're "special")
5. Habitat Destruction (deforestation, mining, fracking, drilling, paving, etc)
6. Economic - (includes debt Ponzi schemes and inequality, social justice issues)
7. The death of the Oceans (from agricultural runoff, warming, overfishing and acidification)
Here's why none of the activists, scientists, and followers of these disparate but interconnected sources of potential doom can work together - Everyone who discovers that we are on an unstoppable trend towards global collapse becomes instantly enamored of two overpowering, egotistical (and often remunerative) convictions...first, they are sure they have defined the precise problem (which usually has to do with how they came about to notice) and second, they are sure they, and they alone, know the solution (ditto). Nobody will ever cooperate to fix the problems, because their ego won't let them. Plus ça change, as they say in France!!
Nomenclature and acronyms in the Doomer lexicography you'll need to know if you don't want to drown in alien, perplexing terminology
1. The Anthropocene - a new geological epoch following the Holocene, in which human activity now influences global systems...and another more alarming related concept, the Anthropozic, a major new era in which human activity dominates natural processes. Some say the Anthropocene began with the Industrial Revolution, the smart money puts it back to the extinction of the megafauna...or maybe the discovery of fire.
2. TEOTWAWKI - The End of the World As We Know It...a bit passé, goes back to Y2K but still a good shorthand reference to what is going to happen when Ayn Rand acolytes have their heads explode
3. NTE, NTHE - Near Term Extinction; for extra pizzazz, Near Term Human Extinction
4. CliFi - a genre of fiction based on climate change, see an interview with Dan Bloom on the emerging canon, much more listed on the fiction page
4. Energy slaves - the amount of work performed for us by fossil fuels, converted to the human equivalent of effort - 22 billion, by one estimate
5. VHEMT - Voluntary Human Extinction Movement - "may we live long and die out" - so far no members have volunteered to go first
6. BAU - Business As Usual...generally used in the context of, we are screwed if we continue
7. MPP - Maximum Power Principle
8. Hospice - Where you are now, you just don't know it
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9. Doomstead - The well-stocked hideaway where silly people think they can escape the zombie hordes
10. Positive/amplifying feedback - effects that dwarf the initial forcing of CO2, making climate change non-linear and rapid - such as the albedo effect...
11. Albedo effect - reflective ice melts, which leads to dark water that absorbs more radiation, that causes more warming, which results in more melting, etc etc.
12. Peak Oil - NO - Not when it runs out, but rather, the point where EROEI becomes unprofitable - soon, in other words...(but not soon enough to save us from catastrophic climate change)
13. EROEI - Energy Return on Energy Invested...how much it costs to extract energy compared to how much energy is obtained
14. HIPPO - Habitat loss, population, pollution, overshoot...adds up to a whole lotta trouble
15. Hubbert's Curve - graphs the inevitable decline of resources, originally for oil wells
16. Seneca Cliff - a graph showing that things go downhill much faster than they went up
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17. The Tragedy of the Commons - scenario formulated by economist Garrett Hardin in which individual short-term interest depletes common resources. Call it a Law.
"Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit -- in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all."
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19. Dystopia - an imaginary place or time that is horrible, often following collapse when the state has become fascist or totalitarian and the environment is ruined. Or maybe a real place and time.
20. Apocalyptic Anxiety [also known as PRE-traumatic stress syndrome]: "The destruction of human civilization would also terminate the historical process—the sense of human history stretching along from the distant past to an open future—through which we make sense out of our individual existences. I want to call the horror that announces such a possibility apocalyptic anxiety. Apocalyptic anxiety anticipates the collapse of all meaningfulness." ~ Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D.
21. Dunbar's Number - with more than 150 members of a tribe, people lose the ability to empathize so...they start killing each other, why not? For a most entertaining explanation, read the Cracked.com article "What is the Monkeysphere?"
22. Jevon's Paradox - (aka the rebound effect) is the observation that increasing energy efficiency ultimately leads, not to conservation, but to more use.
23. Apocaloptimist - A person (or organization) that makes a powerful case that Armageddon is nigh, but posits unsubstantiated hope that human ingenuity will solve the problems in time. NOTE: despite being categorized as Doomers, virtually every single person in this Encyclopedia is an overt or covert apocaloptimist (with one or two exceptions) who are either selling snake oil, or they believe their own BS - but primarily, for the simple reason that true doomers are rarely read and NEVER published. So the distinctions are broad and suspect. (There are also other self-explanatory distinctions, such as Apocalopportunist and Apocaloptimystic.)
24. Hopium - arguably coined by Lonewolf back in 2000 on the Survival Acres forum, designating that deranged condition in which a person is deluded into thinking humanity will survive omnicide.
25. Greenwashing - When corporations collaborate with "green" activist groups to market their products as sustainable. Some greenwashing is wishful thinking...but usually it is contemptibly unscrupulous.
26. Faustian Bargain - as described by The Agonist:
"Humanity is doubling down on its Faustian climate bargain by pumping up fossil fuel particulate and nitrogen pollution...Humans have been pumping both greenhouse gases (mainly CO2) and aerosols (fine particles) into the atmosphere for more than a century. The CO2 accumulates steadily, staying in the climate system for millennia, with a continuously increasing warming effect. Aerosols have a cooling effect (by reducing solar heating of the ground) that depends on the rate that we pump aerosols into the air, because they fall out after about five days...Reduction of the net human-made climate forcing by aerosols has been described as a “Faustian bargain” because the aerosols constitute deleterious particulate air pollution. Reduction of the net climate forcing by half will continue only if we allow air pollution to build up to greater and greater amounts. More likely, humanity will demand and achieve a reduction of particulate air pollution, whereupon, because the CO2 from fossil fuel burning remains in the surface climate system for millennia, the “devil’s payment” will be extracted from humanity via increased global warming."
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27. Trifuckta - As in, the race to see which of the three predominant converging catastrophes will be the first trigger total collapse and doom - Energy (peak oil, coal and gas), Environment (pollution, overpopulation and climate), and Economy (over-extraction, income inequality and poverty, financial ponzi scheme, corruption). As stated by the Curator, aren't we lucky to have ringside seats at the finish line?
28. Methane, get used to it - a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2...and there is lots of it locked up (or at least, it HAS BEEN locked up) in the permafrost and under the oceans in clathrates, see The Giant Methane Monster Lurking with the ludicrous suggestion at the end - The time for a carbon tax is now! [haha!]
Will we look back on this hole in Siberia as the beginning of the end?
29. WooWoo - Any type of spiritualism that enables the devout to think that there is an alternative to total, incipient annihilation...closely related to Hopium. Woofuckery is when an apocaloptimist makes a convincing case for doom, and then slips some WooWoo hopium in at the end, to make you feel better.
14 Distinguished Cassandras from the past, whose warnings we shouldn't have ignored - but did! Because people are selfish, greedy egomaniacs. (...altho we love them anyway, honest!)
1. When man interferes with the Tao
the sky becomes filthy,
the earth becomes depleted,
the equilibrium crumbles,
creatures become extinct.
~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, 500 BCE, appx
2. "When the last tree has been cut down, the last river has been polluted, and the last fish has been caught, only then do you realize that money can't buy everything." ~ Native American Proverb
3. Thomas Malthus ~
"The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race." - An Essay on The Principle of Population, First Edition 1798
4. Thomas Hobbes , English philosopher 1588-1679 and author of Leviathan. He famously said that in the absence of rule of a monarch, the original, natural condition of humanity was to live in perpetual warre - "the war of every man against every man." The lives of men were destined thus to be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." He also noted "...in the first place, I put forth a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death." Although this might not quite be true, it is probably more accurate a portrayal than that of Rousseau (1712 - 1778) who posited that "nothing could be more gentle" than the "Noble Savage" whilst at peace in primitive circumstances (when he wasn't raiding the neighboring village, bludgeoning a rival and kidnapping his wife).
5. Fairfield Osborne, author of Our Plundered Planet,1948
"The tide of the Earth's population is rising, the reservoir of the earth’s living resources is falling. Technologists may outdo themselves in the creation of artificial substitutes for natural subsistence, and new areas, such as those in tropical or subtropical regions, may be adapted to human use, but even such recourses or developments cannot be expected to offset the present terrific attack upon the natural life-giving elements of the earth. There is only one solution: Man must recognize the necessity of cooperating with nature. He must temper his demands and use and conserve the natural living resources of this earth in a manner that alone can provide for the continuation of his civilization. The final answer is to be found only through comprehension of the enduring processes of nature. The time for defiance is at an end."
6. Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, 1962
“Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?”
7. E.F. Shumacher, author of Small is Beautiful, 1973
“An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.”
8. Wendell Berry, author of The Unsettling of America, 1974
“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.”
9. Aldo Leopold, author of A Fierce Green Fire - “I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.” and “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.” ~ A Sand County Almanac
10. Edward Abbey, author of The Monkey Wrench Gang "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
11. Jacques Cousteau - once an avid sports fisherman, Jacques was horrified when he saw the degraded condition in the Mediterranean Sea after a long absence, and devoted the rest of his life to conservation "Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans."
12. Isaac Asimov - Professor of Biochemistry, author of many books of science fiction. From the transcription of a lecture in 1974, The Future of Humanity: "People are stupid…We wouldn't be in the mess we're in if that weren't so. Because believe me, we're in a mess. Now, it isn't very difficult to see that we're in a mess, or even to see years ago that we were in a mess....There are always people who think that all we have to do, after all is abandoned, all this foolish technology that we've made ourselves slave to, and go back like our ancestors and live close to the soil with the good things of nature. That would be great if we could do it. If we could go back to the way it was before World War II, technologically, we could support all the people that lived on Earth before World War II. The catch is that in these last thirty years one billion and a half people have been added to the population of the Earth. And we have been feeding them largely because of all these things that we have done in these last thirty years, the good weather, the fertilizers, and the pesticides, and the irrigation, and the green revolution, and all the rest of it. If we abandon that, we also have to abandon a billion and a half people; and there are going to be very few volunteers for the job....There is no need to decide whether the population will be lowered or not. It will, it will!
...The only thing mankind has to decide is whether to let it be done in the old inhumane method that nature has always used, or to invent a new humane method of our own. That is the only choice that faces us; whether to lower the population catastrophically by a raised death rate, or to lower it humanely by a lowered birth rate. And we all make the choice. And I have a suspicion that we won't make the right choice, which is the tragedy of humanity right now."
13. Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1997 - "We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."
1 Closest Corollary to our Situation (other than a petri dish):
St. Matthew Island reindeer! - And thank you for being sentient creatures that illustrate overpopulation so we don't have to always be compared to bacteria. For a complete but quick story of the scientific research, read this.
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A Parable for Humanity? Cartoonist Stuart McMillen reflects on "the fragile basis of our prosperity":
Brought to paradise, the reindeer herd soared to an unsustainable number and then crashed. The irony is that the seemingly ‘perfect’ conditions of St Matthew Island (abundant food, no predators) were the very seeds of the reindeer’s demise...A non-scientific criticism of the comic is the ‘humans aren’t reindeer’ argument. I don’t think this argument debunks the comic. Yes, the human mind is capable of reason beyond any other creature on Earth. Yes, we have had a remarkable history of technological inventions. But these facts aren’t Get Out of Jail Freecards. Despite our creativity, despite our inventions, our success remains based on unsustainable habits and non-renewable resources. Humans aren’t reindeer for sure, but it’s dishonest for critics to ignore the fragile basis of our prosperity.
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6 most poignant essays about extinction
1. Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (New York Times) ~ Roy Scranton
"The human psyche naturally rebels against the idea of its end. Likewise, civilizations have throughout history marched blindly toward disaster, because humans are wired to believe that tomorrow will be much like today — it is unnatural for us to think that this way of life, this present moment, this order of things is not stable and permanent. Across the world today, our actions testify to our belief that we can go on like this forever, burning oil, poisoning the seas, killing off other species, pumping carbon into the air, ignoring the ominous silence of our coal mine canaries in favor of the unending robotic tweets of our new digital imaginarium. Yet the reality of global climate change is going to keep intruding on our fantasies of perpetual growth, permanent innovation and endless energy, just as the reality of mortality shocks our casual faith in permanence."
"The biggest problem climate change poses isn’t how the Department of Defense should plan for resource wars, or how we should put up sea walls to protect Alphabet City, or when we should evacuate Hoboken. It won’t be addressed by buying a Prius, signing a treaty, or turning off the air-conditioning. The biggest problem we face is a philosophical one: understanding that this civilization is already dead. The sooner we confront this problem, and the sooner we realize there’s nothing we can do to save ourselves, the sooner we can get down to the hard work of adapting, with mortal humility, to our new reality."
"The human psyche naturally rebels against the idea of its end. Likewise, civilizations have throughout history marched blindly toward disaster, because humans are wired to believe that tomorrow will be much like today — it is unnatural for us to think that this way of life, this present moment, this order of things is not stable and permanent. Across the world today, our actions testify to our belief that we can go on like this forever, burning oil, poisoning the seas, killing off other species, pumping carbon into the air, ignoring the ominous silence of our coal mine canaries in favor of the unending robotic tweets of our new digital imaginarium. Yet the reality of global climate change is going to keep intruding on our fantasies of perpetual growth, permanent innovation and endless energy, just as the reality of mortality shocks our casual faith in permanence."
"The biggest problem climate change poses isn’t how the Department of Defense should plan for resource wars, or how we should put up sea walls to protect Alphabet City, or when we should evacuate Hoboken. It won’t be addressed by buying a Prius, signing a treaty, or turning off the air-conditioning. The biggest problem we face is a philosophical one: understanding that this civilization is already dead. The sooner we confront this problem, and the sooner we realize there’s nothing we can do to save ourselves, the sooner we can get down to the hard work of adapting, with mortal humility, to our new reality."
2. Paul Kingsnorth ~ Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist published in Orion Magazine - A bit too precious, perhaps, but still a jewel with rare purity.
"I look out across the moonlit Lake District ranges, and it’s as clear as the night air that what used to come in regular waves, pounding like the sea, comes now only in flashes, out of the corner of my eyes, like a lighthouse in a storm. Perhaps it’s the way the world has changed. There are more cars on the roads now, more satellites in the sky. The footpaths up the fells are like stone motorways, there are turbines on the moors, and the farmers are being edged out by south-country refugees like me, trying to escape but bringing with us the things we flee from."
(Also, part of a protracted exchange with Wen Stephenson about hope v. defeatism.)
3. Christy Rodgers, The Bellwethers, published November 2013 ~
"Sometimes I stand at my back door in the twilight, with the noise of the television a senile murmur in the background, and wait, and listen. I know I am listening for the faint sound of a distant crash, a kind of final sound reverberating through layers of time, to tell me that a vast and seemingly monolithic absurdity, an old empire of illusion, has collapsed under its own weight and is crumbling back into life. And I know I will never hear it, because that isn’t the way it works, but still, for a little while as the day is ending, I listen, and I wait."
4. The Irreconcilable Acceptance of Near Term Extinction ~ Daniel Drumright, published at Nature Bats Last, an essay which has engendered countless discussions on and off the web, about suicide in as a legitimate response to extinction when collapse gets underway - everything from whether to discuss it at all...and how best to do it.
"I look out across the moonlit Lake District ranges, and it’s as clear as the night air that what used to come in regular waves, pounding like the sea, comes now only in flashes, out of the corner of my eyes, like a lighthouse in a storm. Perhaps it’s the way the world has changed. There are more cars on the roads now, more satellites in the sky. The footpaths up the fells are like stone motorways, there are turbines on the moors, and the farmers are being edged out by south-country refugees like me, trying to escape but bringing with us the things we flee from."
(Also, part of a protracted exchange with Wen Stephenson about hope v. defeatism.)
3. Christy Rodgers, The Bellwethers, published November 2013 ~
"Sometimes I stand at my back door in the twilight, with the noise of the television a senile murmur in the background, and wait, and listen. I know I am listening for the faint sound of a distant crash, a kind of final sound reverberating through layers of time, to tell me that a vast and seemingly monolithic absurdity, an old empire of illusion, has collapsed under its own weight and is crumbling back into life. And I know I will never hear it, because that isn’t the way it works, but still, for a little while as the day is ending, I listen, and I wait."
4. The Irreconcilable Acceptance of Near Term Extinction ~ Daniel Drumright, published at Nature Bats Last, an essay which has engendered countless discussions on and off the web, about suicide in as a legitimate response to extinction when collapse gets underway - everything from whether to discuss it at all...and how best to do it.
Benjamin the Donkey's limerick in response:
A year ago Daniel came;
Made our cares up till then appear tame:
NTE, well defined,
Blew everyone’s mind,
And since then we’ve not been the same.
5. At Love in a Time of Cataclysm, by JP Greenhouse - Okay, Doomers, Let's March
NTE, well defined,
Blew everyone’s mind,
And since then we’ve not been the same.
5. At Love in a Time of Cataclysm, by JP Greenhouse - Okay, Doomers, Let's March
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6. (blush) if you count mine, published July 2014 in OpEdNews - In a Fine Frenzy - the universal dance of delusion, and the paucity of hope
"There is a man who lives on the other side of my village (it is said) who one day, setting out for errands, inadvertently ran over his child as he backed out of the driveway. Ever since I heard this tragic tale, I have thought I can imagine the moment that, thunderstruck with horror and frozen in disbelief, he gazed upon that little mangled body. I think I know the ferocious dread that overcame him when first he realized that the car of which he was so proudly enamored - that quintessential symbol of success, the pinnacle of modern technology and shiny avatar of individual freedom - was the very same mighty instrument of folly that had literally crushed the one thing most important to him - his progeny, his future.
I suffer his tumultuous and inconsolable grief because that is how I greet every new day since abruptly I came to understand that the splendid, intricate, exquisitely entwined tapestry of life is unraveling."
From 2018/2019, a Newly Emerging Gaggle of *Celebrity Apocalypsists*™ - expect many more as the masses panic and seek soothing gurus!
1. David Wallace Wells infuriated the scientific community with his article in New York magazine, "The Uninhabitable Earth" and continues with further writings to annoy the optimists, as self-anointed bringer of environmental doom. To read him you would never know it was already a hot topic, for years, amongst the alarmists.
From 2018/2019, a Newly Emerging Gaggle of *Celebrity Apocalypsists*™ - expect many more as the masses panic and seek soothing gurus!
1. David Wallace Wells infuriated the scientific community with his article in New York magazine, "The Uninhabitable Earth" and continues with further writings to annoy the optimists, as self-anointed bringer of environmental doom. To read him you would never know it was already a hot topic, for years, amongst the alarmists.
2. Jem Bendell’s paper in 2018 (Deep Adaptation) was published by the University of Cumbria after it had been rejected by a journal as too doomy, and after it went viral with over a million downloads, he quickly became a darling of the newly-terrified awoken. He created DeepAdaptation.info to help them talk to each other, and then left to launch ScholarsWarning.net for hundreds of other scholars similarly speak out.
3. The Extinction Rebellion movement, while having some admirable ambitions, seems oblivious to the irony that when teenage spokesperson Greta says she wants her generation's hopes and dreams back, those hopes and dreams aren't possible to fulfill - because, unless the hopes and dreams include 6.6 billion fewer people, it's all based on burning fuel. Also, encouraging celebrities to fly to London to disrupt traffic accomplishes little other than opening ER to ridicule with accusations of hypocritical elitism.
43 (count 'em!) contemporary Doomsayers - their books and blogs and scariest quotes (lots more here)
1. E.O.Wilson, Professor Emeritus in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, the Father of Sociobiology ~ "The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us."
2. Al Bartlett, Professor Emeritus in Physics and population control crusader, author of The Essential Exponential for the Future of our Planet - "Unfortunately, both smart growth and dumb growth destroy the environment. The only difference is that smart growth destroys the environment with good taste. It's like buying a ticket on the Titanic, if you're smart you go first class. But the outcome is the same... the boat still sinks."...from a 2009 interview where he explains why technology cannot save us.
3. Herman E. Daly (born 1938) is ecological economist and professor who was Senior Economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank. He was a co-founder and associate editor of the journal, Ecological Economics. "There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation."and "...as the economy grows, it displaces, it encroaches upon the biosphere, and this is the fundamental cost of economic growth. It's what you give up when you expand. You give up what used to be there."
4. David Attenborough, British nature broadcaster best known for the BBC Life On Earth series: "We are a plague on the earth...Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us."
5. Joseph Tainter, anthropologist and author of The Collapse of Complex Societies - "Complex societies collapse through the complexity that created them."
6. Ernst Mayr - a leading evolutionary biologist who wrote "Systematics and the Origin of Species". See a thoughtful examination here.
7. Jared Diamond, Collapse...and
8. Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress -
Make it easy on yourself, just read
9. Dave Pollard's brilliant review of the two writers ~
"While Diamond suggests the errors of excess and foolishness that led to previous collapses were unwitting, and well-intentioned, Wright describes human society-building as steeped in violence, genocide and savagery, and demonstrates that evolutionary success of human cultures has been proportional to their readiness and willingness to exterminate or subjugate ‘competitors’ (plants, animals, other human cultures and members of their own culture) with deliberate, zealous and ruthless barbarity. The consequence is that human evolution has self-selected for savagery and bred compassion out of the gene pool, and has consistently provided the most ruthless members of our society (psychopaths, megalomaniacs, war-mongers and power-crazies) the method, the motive and the opportunity to seize control and establish rigid and vicious hierarchies that entrench and reinforce extreme inequality, hold power by the threat of violence (sacrificing subordinates in wars and in prisons to keep others in line) and anchoring their authority by claims of divine right."
10. Paul Ehrlich, professor and author (with his wife Anne) of The Population Bomb, published 1968.
11. Club of Rome, international thinktank that commissioned the Limits to Growth report published in 1972, garnering instant condemnation and shocked disbelief. The computer models were meant to portray trends, not exact predictions for timing but still...pay particularly close attention to that black line below. Dennis and Donatella Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III. A 2004 update confirms the general gloomy prospects expounded upon in the original.
13. A 2012 Scientific American update on the Limits to Growth model - Apocalypse Soon - Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return? - answers that rhetorical question in the first paragraph: "Remember how Wile E. Coyote, in his obsessive pursuit of the Road Runner, would fall off a cliff? The hapless predator ran straight out off the edge, stopped in midair as only an animated character could, looked beneath him in an eye-popping moment of truth, and plummeted straight down into a puff of dust. Splat!"
14. Fred Pearce, author of the terrifying book, With Speed and Violence. Paleoclimate beats the pants off models...but then he went over to the dark side and went all optimistic - see this smackdown of his puerile recanting.
15. Reg Morrison, Australian environmentalist and author of The Spirit in the Gene - Humanity's Proud Illusion and the Laws of Nature which deftly and persuasively makes the case for the evolutionarily determined human propensity for overshoot, read a free summary and online excerpts.
16. Tyrone Hayes, UC Berkeley professor of Integrative Biology who has taken a huge amount of industry criticism for presenting the terrifying facts about atrazine altering hormones, recounted in a New Yorker Magazine article.
17. Paul Hawken, environmentalist and entrepreneur ~ "The problem that confronts us is that every living system in the biosphere is in decline and the rate of decline is accelerating. There isn't one peer-reviewed scientific article that's been published in the last 20 years that contradicts that statement. Living systems are coral reefs. They're our climatic stability, forest cover, the oceans themselves, aquifers, water, the conditions of the soil, biodiversity. They go on and on as they get more specific. But the fact is, there isn't one living system that is stable or is improving. And those living systems provide the basis for all life."
18. Elizabeth Kolbert, author, "Field Notes From a Catastrophe" and "The Sixth Extinction - an Unnatural History", staff writer at The New Yorker...see her on The Daily Show because hey, extinction is funny!
19. Chris Martenson, selling his "Crash Course", maintains the website Peak Prosperity
20. Gail Tverborg aka Gail the Actuary - maintains the blog Our Finite World, with a primary focus on peak oil and economics. Ms. Tverborg has the reassuring, non-threatening demeanor of that aunt from Ohio you rarely see, or perhaps a rather prim librarian, which conceals a laser vorpal sword that demolishes the most cherished economic illusions. She does kind of miss the terminal nature of climate change already baked in the cake, because she thinks peak oil will stave off the worst projected emissions scenarios by the IPCC - but don't let that stop your from following her analysis. Latest advice: "Pray".
21. Peter Ward, author of several books including Under a Green Sky, and The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive, paleontologist at the University of Washington - HuffPo Interview 2011
"My view of life on Earth is that it's a huge board game, and every species has but one goal: To take over the planet. And every species that could, would, if it got the chance. So we're just doing what evolution has pounded into us: Produce as many of yourselves as you can. Make sure that, as you produce, you aren't threatened in your production, and co-opt all the planet's resources. Kill any competitors and spread to every place that you possibly can. We're doing all of that. We get the prize, ironically, because of the brains that we have."
22. George Monbiot, who writes on the environment for the UK Guardian. His best post ever, titled Destroyer of Worlds, covered the 3 day workshop in March 2014 presenting research about the extinction of the megafauna that conclusively demolished the fairy tale that humans weren't behind it...his next best is The Kink in the Human Brain (except it's no "kink" it's JUST US).
23. William R. Catton, Sociologist, author of Overshoot and a second book,
Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse. One review sums them up with a quote from George Mobus: "In the sequel [to Overshoot], Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse, [Catton] drops the part about we can evade the worst. The subtitle says it all. Now he concludes that it is already too late to mend our ways and somehow avoid the collapse of civilization."
24. Guy McPherson - maintains Nature Bats Last, the originator of NTHE meme, beloved by his readers - a lanky personable renegade professor emeritus, a voluntary exile full of regret...who might be mistaken as an intellectual frat boy if it weren't for his soulful sorrow and sincere kindness. Find all his books, posts, videos and most vitally important, his "climate change summary and update" at his website.
25. John Gray, author of Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
“...humankind's presence on Earth is nothing but a cancer...” and ... “The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialisation, “Western civilisation” or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate. Throughout all of history and prehistory, human advance has coincided with ecological devastation.”
26. Jay Hanson (in 2019, now deceased, RIP) - cantankerous Hawaiian, produced the encyclopedic DieOff.org and more recently published a condensed update and summary at "The Loop":
"Since natural selection occurs under thermodynamic laws, individual and group behaviors are biased by the MPP to generate maximum power, which requires over-reproduction and/or over-consumption of resources[4] whenever system constraints allow it. Individuals and families will form social groups to generate more power by degrading more energy. Differential power generation and accumulation result in a hierarchical group structure.
Overshoot eventually leads to decreasing power attainable for the group with lower-ranking members suffering first. Low-rank members will form subgroups and coalitions to demand a greater share of power from higher-ranking individuals who will resist by forming their own coalitions to maintain it. Meanwhile, social conflict will intensify as available power continues to fall.
Eventually, members of the weakest group (high or low rank) are forced to “disperse.”[5] Those members of the weak group who do not disperse are killed,[6] enslaved, or in modern times imprisoned. By most estimates, 10 to 20 percent of Stone-Age people died at the hands of other humans. The process of overshoot, followed by forced dispersal, may be seen as a sort of repetitive pumping action—a collective behavioral loop—that drove humans into every inhabitable niche."
27. Alice Friedemann - a stunningly shrewd, savvy lady who knows all about peak oil, and cooking multi-grain, nourishing snacks with long shelf life - see her book Crunch! and her blog Energy Skeptic, and her many book reviews such as this one, about The Race For What's Left: the Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources.
28. Desdemona Despair - a discerning selection of horrendous contemporary news you won't want to miss!
29. The Daily Impact - subscribe for unparalleled weekly analysis of the latest absurd disaster
30. Ugo Bardi - blogger at Cassandra's Legacy, now known as Resource Crisis - started out with a peak oil perspective, but woke up to climate change. See an excerpt from his recent book here.
31. Richard Duncan, who formulated the Olduvai Theory, from wiki: "The Olduvai theory holds that the ratio of world energy production per capita, which he denotes by the metric e, would begin to decline around 2007 as the extraction rates of fossil fuels fall increasingly behind demand, causing catastrophic social and economic collapse, starting with massive electrical blackouts worldwide. He suggests that humans would eventually revert to a stone-age style of living after the majority of the world's population dies off over the coming century."
32. Paul Chefurka - Buddhist, writer, describes the MPP and why it matters at his blog.
33. Carolyn Baker - a self-designated "life coach" providing a service that will no doubt be much in demand, helping doomers who feel they are in hospice. New-Agey book titles such as Sacred Demise, Collapsing Consciously, - terrific July 2014 interview with Abby Martin on the book she co-authored, Extinction Dialogs; Living with Death in Mind, read her blog here. Also hosts the weekly show The Lifeboat Hour.
34. Tenney Naumer - curates climate science and news at ClimateChangePsychology
35. DOTE - Decline of the Empire...Dave Cohen, a peak oil veteran, is cynical with a special dose of bitterness only Pittsburgh can produce. An incisive commenter with unparalleled savagely misanthropic gallows humor, and a notorious temper. Check out the archives, and follow - but comment with caution. From possibly his best post on delusional optimism and free will: "If free will is largely an illusion, if much of human cognition consists of post-hoc rationalizations, we bump up against the idea of hard limits on human behavior, an idea which makes humans very, very uncomfortable, so uncomfortable, in fact, that nearly all such suggestions are immediately rejected, when they are considered at all." Don't miss Part II, now published!
36. Collapse of Industrial Civilization - XRay Mike is a skilled writer with a talent for interweaving doom with gloom from diverse sources - but the "blame it on the capitalists!!" theme gets tedious considering humanity started trashing the planet - and each other - long before capitalism emerged. Read the blog here.
37. Global Risk Report - Assimilation of all the bad headline news in a great format
38. Survival Acres (no longer in 2019 defunct, check the archives - one of the most outrageously honest, blunt original doomers on the web and still one of the best)
39. Derrick Jensen, author of numerous books and magazine articles about how bad civilization is (Endgame, The Culture of Make Believe, A Language Older Than Words), see them all at his website. Advocates violent resistance for others but not himself, and admits he is totally dependent upon industrial civilization. The main problem is he doesn't seem to understand that without any restraints imposed by civilization, humans will completely trash what remains of the natural world. Granted, they're doing that anyway.
40. Climate Emergency Institute - a website with a worthy assortment of links - but complete lack of awareness of any other problems than climate. Habitat destruction? Overpopulation? What's that??
41. WeirdWeather - Facebook group run by a tattooed single mom with astonishing dedication and irascible passion, who provides an unending parade of the craziest and most terrifying weather events around the world. You'll want her updates every day.
42. Eric R. Pianka should be ranked much higher on the list but he has only recently come back into the news (and my laggard attention) because of his brave and controversial 2004 acceptance speech encapsulated as The Vanishing Book of Life on Earth, in which he mentioned Ebola. If you read no other link here at the Library, read that one.
43. The youtube series "Collapse Chronicles" is hosted by Sam Mitchell, a long-time prolific producer of timely topics, and a skilled interviewer of fellow collapsitarians. Here's a link to his conversation with me, natch! But you should subscribe and listen to all his ruminations and ramblings, they are great.
8 Nerds and Geeks We Love
1. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers - in the vanguard of those willing to stick her neck out and say yes, Virginia, climate change IS causing extreme weather! Watch her explain the jetstream.
2. Naomi Oreskes, historian of science at Harvard - a powerhouse who exposed the history of denialism and the interconnections from tobacco to climate in "Merchants of Doubt", co-authored fictionalized version of The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View From The Future.
3. Joe Romm - A physicist, and author of Hell and High Water - a hardheaded scientist who nevertheless harbors a belief that rhetoric will matter. Originator of the Climate Progress blog, where he still takes pleasure in demolishing deniers, to the delight of his fans.
4. Sylvia Earle - Champion of the oceans, in her own words see the film, Mission Blue
5. Richard Alley - Professor at Penn State, expert in glaciology. You gotta love his maniacal laugh! How else to stare down extinction? One of many interviews on youtube is Abrupt Climate Change.
6. Climate Code Red - an Australian website where David Spratt and Philip Sutton tell it like it is for the most part without any sugar coating (at least, compared to all the other information about climate change). Their eponymous book published in 2008 is subtitled "The Case For Emergency Action". Needless to say, no emergency action has been taken in the interim. Don't miss the Dangerous Climate Change: Myths and Reality report.
7 & 8. Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows - climate scientists who ACTUALLY gave up flying because it's, um, unsustainable...you can read about their work in a Grist article Freaked Out Climate Scientists and don't miss the followup story, The Brutal Logic of Climate Change Mitigation.
9. The Climate Science Rapid Response Team founded by John Abraham, Professor at St. Thomas, slayer of climate deniers, along with colleague Scott Mandia. A group effort by 160 volunteers scientists to help media outlets and policy makers sort out fact from fiction on those rare occasions when they are in the mood to do so.
10. Dennis Meadows - one of the authors of the 1972 Limits to Growth - whose current prognosis for civilization is even more dire and imminent. See a recent post about his position Collapse is Inevitable here.
11. Michael Mann - he's cute when he gets mad, see his book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars - Dispatches from the Front Lines. Dragged out of the Ivory Tower of Academia for committing the unforgivable sin of creating the iconic hockey stick, he has turned into a steady and committed spokesman for reason...even if he almost kinda but couldn't QUITE admit it's too late, in Earth Will Cross the Climate Danger Threshold by 2036
12. Peter Sinclair, host of ClimateDenialCrockOfTheWeek videos...sharpest debunker on the web. Clever, watchable short videos enabling the non-scientist to understand how puerile the denier claims are.
13. All the folks at SkepticalScience - rigorous debunking of pesky deniers and clearinghouse for climate change information by a large cooperative team of mostly apocaloptimists (at least in public).
14. Prince Charles - Climate change sceptics are 'headless chickens' - "As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me.
"Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have."
1 hoard of worthwhile sources of information. Think there is a sinister plot for mainstream media to hide the truth from you? There is!! Even NPR has been a corporate cheerleader for years. This is a list of journalists, video news and radio shows, podcasts and periodicals worth following - (even though they, too, mostly pander to the idea that we can fix the unfixable).
RadioEcoShock, Alex Smith has the best people on his show, here is his interview with David Korowicz on "Rapid Collapse"
DeSmogBlog
UK Guardian Environment Section
Betsy Greenberg
KMO
Democracy Today
Al Jazeera
HuffingtonPost (occasionally)
Grist
Utne
Yes!
Orion
The Nation
Treehugger
Edge.org
The Lifeboat Hour
CounterPunch
Common Dreams
Truthout
Waging Nonviolence
EarthFirst
Utne
22 Apocaloptimists - the Prophets (and some profiters) of doom - devoted to explaining that we're screwed - and then pretend there is salvation [this is actually practically everyone else on the doomsayer list too - but some deserve special mention]
1. James Lovelock, author, The Vanishing Face of Gaia who once said "Man is a tribal carnivore, not a gentle gardener." He has since recanted his worst predictions making him probably the most famous case of "going emeritus". See his website, and an interview .
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2. Real Climate, a blog written by traditionally no-drama "reticent" climate scientists. It's a matter of some speculation how long it will be before they notice their hair is on fire. This was the introduction to the June open forum: "June is the month when the Arctic Sea Ice outlook gets going, when the EPA releases its rules on power plant CO2 emissions, and when, hopefully, commenters can get back to actually having constructive and respectful conversations about climate science (and not nuclear energy, impending apocalypsi (pl) or how terrible everyone else is). Thanks."
3. Mark Lynus, author, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet - How he could write this terrifying assessment in 2007 and still think there is any surviving it remains a mystery. Like others who have recanted early dire predictions, it appears he scared the wits out of himself. Great example of how a purely climate-oriented activist misses the big picture with his advocacy of nuclear power and GMO crops.
4. Richard Heinberg - Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute, prolific writer and lecturer about the energy and environmental crises, website and interview on RadioEcoshock "What to do While Your Waiting for the Crash" - an excellent recent article in Resilience.
5. Nafeez Ahmed - UK Guardian writer who specializes in sophisticated, comprehensive warnings about the colossal wreck we are making; and how we can fix it.
6. David Suzuki, the father of Canadian environmentalism, and also, one of many environmental luminaries who has four or more children (you'd be surprised!). A recent interview with him that chronicles the inexcusably virulent smears against him (everyone knows that Canada is now a petrostate that has shifted firmly to the dark side) says that, despite his sense that environmentalism has failed: "Some of his compatriots believe it’s already too late to save our species. Suzuki is more optimistic. Nature, if given the chance, will be more forgiving than we deserve, he says. All humans have to do is start paying attention to the flashing warning signs." Isn't it nice to know that's "all we have to do"!
7. "One can see from space how the human race has changed the earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared for agriculture or urban development. The polar ice caps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night the earth is no longer dark, but lit up. All this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit, but human demands and expectations are ever increasing." —Stephen Hawking, cosmologist. So let's go colonize another planet and ruin that one, too!
8. Bill McKibben - author of countless books and articles who founded probably the largest climate activist movement in the world, 350.org...a number that is now ironic to say the least since we permanently exceeded 400 ppb in 2014 - and there's no viable plan to lower it. But still he exhorts his followers to march and wave signs (in properly "serious" attire, no hippy tree-hugger garb, thank you) and sign petitions and whine about divesting from fossil fuel companies. Yeah, that'll work.
9. Clive Hamilton, excellent writer, truculently optimistic, check out his book Requiem for a Species and this misguided article, The New Environmentalism Will Lead Us To Disaster, in which his admirable zeal to expose the "pragmatists" leads him to miss the worldwide significance of megafauna extinction as elucidated in this study (okay that is getting a bit arcane but here is an excerpt anyway):
DEFAUNATION IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
“So profound is this problem that we have applied the term “defaunation” to describe it. This recent pulse of animal loss, hereafter referred to as the Anthropocene defaunation, is not only a conspicuous consequence of human impacts on the planet but also a primary driver of global environmental change in its own right. In comparison, we highlight the profound ecological impacts of the much more limited extinctions, predominantly of larger vertebrates, that occurred during the end of the last ice Age. These extinctions altered ecosystem processes and disturbance regimes at continental scales, triggering cascades of extinction thought to still reverberate today.”
10. Chris Hedges - a veteran reporter who takes courageous stances and writes brilliantly from perilous locations, author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He has a tendency to preach, but oh what sermons he publishes weekly in Truthdig!
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11. Citizens Climate Lobby - a rather sad but determined group with chapters in the US that seem to retain faith that working within the political process will be successful in thwarting disaster. Quaint.
12. Robert Scribbler - prolific and cleverly eloquent compiler of the latest doomy news but still insists there is a way to evade the worst. Follow his blog here.
13. Arctic News and other blogs hosted by Sam Carana, who predicts extinction without geoegineering. Of course, geoengineering won't do a thing for overshoot, but whatever.
14. Arctic Methane Emergency Group - AMEG - warns of abrupt climate change and runaway warming once the Arctic is ice-free in summer - 2015?
15. John Michael Greer, aka The Archdruid (no, he actually calls HIMSELF that) - a peak oil wizard (yes, he actually believes in magic) who would love to sell you some salvation. DON'T visit his blog unless you are prepared to genuflect. oh wait did I forget to put the link? darn...
16. Dmitry Orlov - a blogger (ClubOrlov) and author (Five States of Collapse; Communities That Abide) who extrapolates the future from the collapse of the Soviet Union - he seems to have barely comprehended that political episode is nothing but a blip on the horizon compared to global ecosystem collapse. Okay for the humor if you can ignore the spitefulness.
17. Doomstead Diner - despite the name, which must be just for giggles, the main author (RE) is convinced living in Alaska puts him out of reach of the zombie hordes. Podcasts and forums here.
18. Nate Hagens - peak oiler who thinks climate change is exaggerated and holds out hope that humans will change, even though his website is named The Monkey Trap "...we humans have never known and been aware scientifically about ourselves and our natural world the way we are now– there are emergent properties bubbling up at the intersection of our morality and our knowledge. Things might look dark, but there is always a chance for benign and fantastic trajectories for the future – and the odds increase slightly with every person that acknowledges this truth."
[That of course would assume humans possess free will, which, contrary to popular opinion, we do not.]
Contrary evidence notwithstanding, Nate illustrates his conviction that we can escape the monkey trap with the following cartoons because, we're not monkeys! So we must be smarter!
19. Naomi Klein - author of The Shock Doctrine and soon to be released This Changes Everything; capitalism vs. the climate. Another enterprising apocaloptimist in a crowded field - in fact, she advocates a collapse of capitalism and growth - but had a baby because it signifies "hope". Good luck baby.
See a devastating critique of her fuzzy thinking by Elizabeth Kolbert, from the NYRB 12/14.
[Starting to see a pattern among the apocaloptimists? By blaming capitalism and focussing on just one problem, whether it's peak oil or the staggering economy or climate change, they leave open an escape hatch when in fact, each is but ONE symptom of overshoot among others (pollution, ocean acidification, habitat destruction, logging, and pollution, pollution, pollution) that are also existential threats to life on earth. Well, I guess you can't very well point a finger at the real driver of the coming collapse - OVERPOPULATION and OVERCONSUMPTION - and continue to fly, or have babies, without revealing that you think it is poor people who should stay poor, or are having too many babies - not you! because you can afford a plane ticket and Montessori school, with the proceeds from your bestselling book.]
20. Noam Chomsky - Professor at MIT, author of many books ripping "American Exceptionalism". From an interview with Hedges "If Mayr was right, we are at the tail end of a binge, accelerated by the Industrial Revolution, that is about to drive us over a cliff environmentally and economically. A looming breakdown, in Chomsky’s eyes, offers us opportunity as well as danger. He has warned repeatedly that if we are to adapt and survive we must overthrow the corporate power elite through mass movements and return power to autonomous collectives that are focused on sustaining communities rather than exploiting them. Appealing to the established institutions and mechanisms of power will not work." June 15 2014
21. James Kunstler, collapsitarian author, and blogger at Clusterf*ck Nation with a primary focus on the unsustainability of modern suburban living arrangements, often avoided by people of the feminist persuasion for exhibiting a slightly misogynist flare in his fiction. See for example this review of his most recent novel, World Made By Bigots.
22. George Mobus - an academic who suspects we are dancing off a cliff but posits that we will overcome our more destructive tendencies, somehow, by evolving our minds (?), blogs at Question Everything.
9 idiotic conspiracy theories to assiduously ignore - DON'T GO THERE! We refuse to even provide links to this hysterical junk.
1. Chemtrailers, otherwise known as "TrailerTrash" (okay okay we relent - here is everything you need to know about chemtrails...and cats...)
2. HAARP
3. Second Coming
4. New World Order/Agenda 21 - Especially the revolting anti-Semites
5. Illuminati - ditto
6. Invisible Planet Nibiru - aka Planetards
7. Magnetic Poles Flipping - SO WHAT?
8. Fukushima radiation is killing everything
9. Cell phone towers are destroying life on earth
7 in the Rogues' Gallery of Deniers, Dissemblers, Equivocators and promoters of dangerously false solutions
1. Just about any politician, with special opprobrium towards the leaders of the US, Australia, Canada and the UK
2. Any climate denier, especially the slick ones...like Bjørn Lomborg as described in a Scientific American article that PRAISES the false choices he presents! BARF!...and those that are educated enough to know better, like physicist Happer of Princeton, who compared CO2 bashing to Jewish victims of the Nazi's (did he hafta?). There are too many dumb ones to mention - Cliff Mass, Anthony Watts, etc etc.
2. Any climate denier, especially the slick ones...like Bjørn Lomborg as described in a Scientific American article that PRAISES the false choices he presents! BARF!...and those that are educated enough to know better, like physicist Happer of Princeton, who compared CO2 bashing to Jewish victims of the Nazi's (did he hafta?). There are too many dumb ones to mention - Cliff Mass, Anthony Watts, etc etc.
3. Eco-pragmatists such as environmental scientist Erle Ellis
4. The Heartland Institute, funded by fossil fuels corporations and anyone who speaks there, see their list of 2014 speakers. They are all putzes and should be shunned.
5. Their Canadian equivalent, Friends of Science - Canada
6. Any climate equivocator - mainly, Andy Revkin, from his NYT blog ghetto DotEarth. Read Clive Hamilton's essay wherein he takes Revkin and his fellow "eco-pragmatists" to the woodshed for a good thrashing. Throw in Judith Curry, too.
7. Advocates of geoengineering and nuclear power. We're looking at you, Ken Caldeira and Peter Wadhams. They don't get it!!! It's not just the temperature, or even mostly the temperature, so geoengineering is just a distraction, and a really scary one at that.
1 Book on Philosophy and The End
See the Amazon description.
22 funniest, snarkiest most relentlessly Gallows Humor doomer comedians and cartoons and sites (you will die laughing!)
1. For the first Earth Day:
from the maker:
“The metaphor of this film is that, whether you notice the jeopardy or not, everybody is trapped on this track, and we’re all going to the same place,’ Barker explains. ‘I’m a bit of a Cassandra. I’m always feeling like I’m looking around and seeing this really apparent jeopardy. But a lot of people I know [have] that kind of disbelief that anything can shake their normal day-to-day life,’ he says. ‘I keep thinking, ‘Man, we’re doomed.’”
3. Cartoon video from Steve Cutts, simply titled Man - quite possibly the BEST summation ever of human barbarity, and no self-respecting doomer has a complete portfolio without it.
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5. Two immortal George Carlin routines - It's a big club and you ain't in it and The earth will be fine, it's the humans that are in trouble
6. Doug Stanhope ~ Abortion is Green
7. Apocadocs - humoring the end One Quip at a Time
8. Meet the Percapitas essay by Tim Murry
9. Amusing new age word toy (The Bullshit Generator) that simplifies ridiculing people who blather like this dude.
10. Juice Rap News - Australian comedic team with endearing cynicism and dorky costumes. Try The War on Terra - described as: "It's 2013 and the world did not end by meteorite or by Mayan calendar. But fear not: we might just be able to get the job done ourselves. Join Robert Foster as he sets out to discover where Civilisation™ is making the fastest progress towards annihilation. In this edition of the Civilisation Report, Robert learns about Australia and Canada - two oft-neglected pioneers of peace, progress and prosperity - in conversation with our antipodean colonial correspondent Ken Oathcarn and his Canuck counterpart, Fagin Heighbard. Dear viewers, consider this a fair warning that in terms of language and affront to the dominant culture this could get fucking messy."
11. Henry Phillips - mournful, droll, and sick: What Do You Want Me To Do About It? Or try Baked Spaghetti
12. The Onion online magazine - satire so slick that, in the tradition of Swift's Modest Proposal, idiots often become outraged thinking it's real (see Poe's Law) - sample: Scientists, "Look, One-Third of Human Population has to die for civilization to be sustainable, So How Do We Want To Do This?"
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14. The End of the World in under two minutes - old but choice.
15. Bill Hicks, stand-up comedian - "If you're in advertising, kill yourself"
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18. Monty Python skits - on denialism, This Parrot is Dead, on delusional optimism, Always Look on the Bright Side, on injustice and exploitation, Constitutional Peasants
19. Lee Camp - subscribe to his Moment of Clarity
20. The Coffee Table Book of Doom ~ Steven Appleby and Art Lester
21. To his everlasting mortification (except he knows no shame) Monkton punked on The Hamster Wheel
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15 best worst #doomcandy fiction movies/novels (some are both) that will ruin your plans for the future, forever
1. George Orwell's 1984 (See John Pilger's essay The Return of George Orwell)
3. Ishmael, philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn, from wiki: "It examines the mythological thinking at the heart of modern civilization, its effect on ethics, and how this relates to sustainability and societal collapse on the global scale. The novel uses a style of Socratic dialogue to deconstruct the notion that humans are the pinnacle of biological evolution. It posits that anthropocentrism and several other widely-accepted modern ideas are actually cultural myths and that global civilization is enacting these myths with catastrophic consequences." from CultureChange: "Daniel Quinn’s 1992 novel Ishmael is that modern industrialized people do not know how to live. Humans have long been cut off from the contingencies of nature, first as a consequence of discovering the wholly unnatural skill of growing reliable food supplies in one place, and later as a side effect of learning how to manufacture wholly unnatural objects and environments. The resulting alienation from nature and from our ancestors’ nature-adapted ways of life left us clueless and susceptible to being sold ideas about how people should live, usually by the most audacious psychopath in the group." WTF? How can the skill of growing reliable food supplies in one place be "unnatural"?
4. Inferno, by Dan Brown, wiki entry
5. Lars Von Trier's dark family drama - Melancholia
Justine: The earth is evil. We don't need to grieve for it.
Claire: What?
Justine: Nobody will miss it.
6. Children of Men
"Everything is a mythical, cosmic battle between faith and chance."
"Ok, the Human Project gives this great, big dinner for all the scientists and sages in the world. They're tossing around theories about the ultimate mystery: why are all the women infertile? Why can't we make babies anymore? So, some say it's genetic experiments, gamma rays, pollution, same ol', same ol'. So, anyway, in the corner, this Englishman's sitting, he hasn't said a word, he's just tuckin' in his dinner. So, they decide to ask him, they say, "Well, why do you think we can't make babies anymore?" And he looks up at 'em, he's chewin' on this great big wing and he says "I haven't the faintest idea," he said, "but this stork is quite tasty isn't he?"
7. Everything Matters
8. The Matrix
9. The Road, Cormac McCarthy (also a movie)
“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
also see review with the following quote -
"There's no such thing as life without bloodshed," McCarthy says philosophically. "I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."
10. Tribulation: A Novel of the Near Future, by Thomas A. Lewis, Amazon link
11. Dr. Suess, The Lorax
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
12. Wall-E...a robot tries to clean up earth after humans desert it, Youtube
13. On the Beach, Nevil Shute
"I suppose I haven't got any imagination," said Peter thoughtfully. It's—it's the end of the world. I've never had to imagine anything like that before."
14. The Bay - Famous rich Hollywood movie director Barry Levinson learned to his horror that pollution from chicken farms is causing a dead zone right outside his own luxurious vacation home on the Chesapeake - imagine - and so he made a fictional movie to warn everyone of...radiation.
15. Margaret Atwood, author of numerous books including The Blind Assassin:
“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
16. The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
“This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.”
17. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
“True, you’re not a slave. You’re worse off than that by a long, long way. You’re a predatory beast shut up in a cage of which the bars aren’t fixed, solid objects you can gnaw at or in despair batter against with your head until you get punch-drunk and stop worrying. No, those bars are the competing members of your own species, at least as cunning as you on average, forever shifting around so you can’t pin them down, liable to get in your way without the least warning, disorienting your personal environment until you want to grab a gun or an axe and turn mucker.”
18. Snowpiercer, see this laudatory review Snowpiercer: at Last, A Fun Dystopian Sci-Fi Epic
"O dystopia, you have o’erwhelmed our imaginations, transformed our cinemas into charnel houses, our movies into nihilistic dirges. We drink in your ecocatastrophes, your post-apocalyptic death matches, your blood-soaked chasms between haves and have-nots. Now, at last, comes a fun dystopian sci-fi epic — a splattery shambles with a fat dose of social satire and barely a lick of sense. It’s Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer, which must be seen to be disbelieved."
Apocalyptic Visual Art (artists seem especially prone to be steeped in doomerism, we are not sure why. Maybe because they can see?Anyway...there is SO MUCH art, just go here for pictures!)
Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ~ John Martin, 1852
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23 documentaries of doom (there are SO MANY and more every day, but these are essential viewing)
1. Everything You Need to Know [in under 15 minutes!] About Mass Extinction, Sea Level Rise and Amplification
2. Thom Hartmann's production of Last Hours ~
“The film Last Hours describes a science-based climate scenario where a tipping point to runaway climate change is triggered by massive releases of frozen methane. Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, has already started to percolate into the open seas and atmosphere from methane hydrate deposits beneath melting arctic ice, from the warming northern-hemisphere tundra, and from worldwide continental-shelf undersea methane pools.” [A brave start but Hartmann has since folded like a whimpering baby. Where's the sequel you promised, Thom??]
3. The 11th Hour - Leonardo DiCaprio's 2007 production about climate change and species extinction, interviews many experts and finds, according to one critic, that "Thankfully for audiences, "11th Hour" is not without hope." A fawning Vanity Fair review, extolling the heroism of DiCaprio complete with iconic Fannie Leibowitz portrait, gushes: "We're at a point in our history, with 6.4 billion of us, that we have to imagine what it would be like to redesign design itself, see design as the first signal of human intention, and realize that we need new intentions for our future where materials are seen as things that are highly valuable and need to go in closed cycles—what we call cradle to cradle, instead of cradle to grave." Wait what?? 6.4B...and were are now at 7 billion?? Doesn't that mean we're at the 12th hour? 'nuf said
4. Gasland I & II - these two films by Josh Fox, featuring Josh Fox, are emblematic of the fractured environmental movement, which is often propelled by NIMBY's - Not In My Back Yard (but fine in yours) - see also this article about a mountaintop coal removal protest action.
5. The Sixth Mass Extinction - Call of Life...absolutely worth watching
6. Years of Living Dangerously - television series
7. Jeremy Jackson's - Ocean Apocalypse lecture to the Naval Academy
8. DamNation - a film about how dams, whether for water supply or hydropower, are like demons. Beautiful, evocatively filmed
9. Acid Test - Sigourney Weaver narrates this superb documentary on ocean acidification...makes up for watching Alien while pregnant with first daughter...
10. Global Dimming - BBC documentary, about the "insidious soup" in our atmosphere
11. Trashed - We Buy It We Bury It We Burn It - documentary with Jeremy Irons
12. Are we smarter than yeast? Video explains the exponential function - absolutely essential to understand our predicament!
13. VICE - Greenland melting - short and devastating
14. Dave Roberts of Grist makes good on a dare in this TED talk - Climate Change is Simple
15. Any and all of several dolphin/whaling exposés from Ric O'Barry - start with The Cove
16. Sea of Slaughter - Farley Mowat's film based on his even more searing book. You will never look at humans as benign again. Have your finger on the pause button - excruciating but must see.
17. The End of the Line - overfishing disrupts the entire food chain with horrific results
18. Blackfish - Seaworld trainer Dawn Brancheau attacked and killed by captive orca, Tilikum. This film has forever tarnished the reputation of water parks for their captivity of sea mammals.
19. The Disappearing Male - whoops!!!
20. Chasing Ice - nothing here to argue with, that's why deniers won't watch it.
21. An Inconvenient Truth - the classic that jolted (some of) the public out of complacency, and the rest into naked, mouth-breathing Al Gore hatred. Almost quaint now.
22. Cowspiracy...The Sustainability Secret exposes the big greenwashing organizations - Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, Climate Reality Project, Oceana, Amazon Watch, Surfrider Foundation, 350.org and Rainforest Action Network
23. Countdown to Extinction video by Bicyclopolis
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8 redundant greenwashing enterprises who won't tell us how bad it really is - and a couple that call them out
1. The Nature Conservancy - see Green Is Good, an exposé in The New Yorker...What can you expect from a group that chooses as its leader a former partner from Goldman Sachs, Mark Tercek - whose share when the firm went public was $30m, who with his wife and four children has taken so many “nature trips” to places like Belize and the Galápagos Islands that their travel agency used their family photo on a brochure, who as head of TNC makes nearly $700k/year...and counts Cargill Dow - by some measures the largest privately owned company in the world with the possible, debatable exception of Koch Industries - DuPont and Georgia Pacific and Coca-Cola among its sponsors and partners, giving them an annual budget of $600m? Can we say power corrupts?
2. Lester Brown, author, The World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse
3. NRDC
4. Sierra Club
5. WWF - World Wildlife Fund
6. 350.org
7. Rainforest Action Network - carbon offsets, greenwashing, sustainable tourism, certification for lumber
8. FaceBook group - GWFOTD - that calls itself the Global Warming Fact of the Day. Known by doomers who have been ejected as "Global Warming Fact of Yesterday".
9. Wrong Kind of Green website, takes no prisoners when it comes to calling out greenwashing efforts- see this post for example - The Inside Story of How Greenpeace Built a Corporate Spanking Machine to Turn the Fortune 500 Into Climate Heroes and also The Art of Annihilation, especially the multipart series, Bill McKibben's Divestment Tour, Brought to You by Wall Street.
10. Climate Justice Ecology Project, CJEP website also takes greenwashing to task, see for example the post On Bill McKibben's 'Call to Arms' for the New York Climate Summit
10. Activist Heros [not complete doomers, probably, or they wouldn't be activists! but you gotta admire them]
1. Judi Bari - a genuine, bonafide martyr to trees - see a post about her here.
2. Tim DeChristopher, who served jail time for bidding up mining rights on land in an illegal BAL auction
3. Alexandra Morton, a biologist protecting salmon in British Columbia, her blog
4. Rhett Butler of Mongabay, who has been tirelessly campaigning to save tropical biodiversity
5. James Hansen, scientist and author of the book Storms of my Grandchildren - vilified by deniers and colleagues alike for going further and earlier on climate dangers, and taking a political stance. He has retired from Columbia to be a full-time activist. See his article assessing Dangerous Climate Change.
6. Paul Watson, captain of the Sea Shepherd, saving whales for decades - give his facebook page a like!
8. Center for Biological Diversity - "sue the bastards!" - from their page on extinction:
The current mass extinction differs from all others in being driven by a single species rather than a planetary or galactic physical process. When the human race —Homo sapiens sapiens — migrated out of Africa to the Middle East 90,000 years ago, to Europe and Australia 40,000 years ago, to North America 12,500 years ago, and to the Caribbean 8,000 years ago, waves of extinction soon followed. The colonization-followed-by-extinction pattern can be seen as recently as 2,000 years ago, when humans colonized Madagascar and quickly drove elephant birds, hippos, and large lemurs extinct.
Check out their #CrowdedPlanet campaign.
9. Occupy Wall Street - at least they tried. As I heard Ralph Nadar remark of the movement, "Anytime you feel a pulse, it's a good thing."
10. Squirrel, and ALL the tree-sitters and protesters at RAMPS - Radical Action for Mountain Peoples Survival - as representatives for the countless local groups and indigenous groups risking liberty and even life to halt mountaintop removal, fracking, whaling, dams, tarsands, logging, mining and pipelines.
10 Doomiest Academic/Government/News Publications (the list is endless and growing)
1. Professor Pimm's paper on the 6th mass extinction, with species disappearing a rate not seen for at least 65 million years. Oh and we're causing it. - Reuters interview video
"Current rates of extinction are about 1000 times the background rate of extinction. These are higher than previously estimated and likely still underestimated. Future rates will depend on many factors and are poised to increase." See articles including the UK Telegraph - Creepy crawlies decline as human population soars; UCSB release - Catastrophic Animal Loss; and PhysOrg - Invertebrate Numbers Nearly Halve as Human Population Doubles.
2. Stanford News, August 2013 -
"Not only is the planet undergoing one of the largest climate changes in the past 65 million years, Stanford climate scientists Noah Diffenbaugh and Chris Field report that it's on pace to occur at a rate 10 times faster than any change in that period. Without intervention, this extreme pace could lead to a 5-6 degree Celsius spike in annual temperatures by the end of the century."
4. Union of Concerned Scientists paper warning that we are on track for well beyond 2 degrees - The Climate Policy Narrative for a Dangerously Warming World, March 2014
5. Anthony Barnosky, tipping points, LA Times article
6. Nine Boundaries report published in 2009 by Johan Rockström, et al, in collaboration with many international scientists, establishes nine critical thresholds that must not be breached by humanity. Once these tipping points have been passed, humanity risks triggering ireversible and abrupt environmental change. At the time, three of them were considered already violated on a planetary scale - climate change, biodiversity loss, and the biogeochemical flow boundary.
7. UK Guardian article about study modeling likelihood of irreversible civilization collapse
8. NYTimes article about a June 2014 study reporting that Antarctic ice is in unstoppable, irreversible melt and this August study that the ice sheet there and in Greenland are melting at the fastest rate ever recorded. Ho hum Sea Level Rise...
9. The Brink of Mass extinction, article in Truthout by Dahr Jamail (and there are many others!)
10. the methane problem - See Seven Facts You Need to Know about the Arctic and visit the Global Methane Tracking blog
1 most popular drinking game among doomers
Every time a scientist is *surprised* that empirical changes are faster and worse than models predicted!
8 Surefire cures for faith in a technological fix
1. Ozzie Zehner, author of the book, Green Illusions, terrific interview with ace reporter Steve Horn of Truthout explains it all succinctly.
"The modern environmental movement has rolled over to become an outlet for loggers, energy firms and car companies to plug into. It is now primarily a social media platform for consumerism, growth and energy production - an institutionalized philanderer of green illusions. If you need evidence, just go to any climate rally and you'll see a strip mall of stands for green products, green jobs and green energy. These will do nothing to solve the crisis we face, which is not an energy crisis but rather a crisis of consumption."
2. Professor Tim Garrett in an interview at Radio EcoShock describes why more energy produced translated into more energy used, and not conservation.
ENERGY = WEALTH = INFLATION + RUINED ATMOSPHERE
3. Article, What's Wrong With Renewable Energy
4. Article, the Myth of Renewable Energy
5. Alice Friedemann's EnergySkeptic post Energy Overview. Oil is butter-fried-steak wrapped in bacon. Alternative Energy is lettuce. In spite of the fact that she gets one rather sinister thing slightly wrong, this is a broad and accurate assessment of peak oil. (This is what she gets wrong: "There’s a bright side. The end of the oil age means the end of climate change. The odds are very good we won’t drive ourselves and millions of other species extinct." The end of the age of oil most emphatically does NOT mean the end of climate change. The emissions already released are DWARFED by the natural amplifying feedbacks that have already begun, and are irreversible.)
6. The Downside of Solar Energy, article from LowTech Magazine via SeeMoreRocks
7. MMP - Maximum Power Principle as first articulated by Howard Odom
"Maximum power theory and the proposal for additional laws of thermodynamics/energetics...
In a controversial move, Odum, together with Richard Pinkerton (at the time physicist at the University of Florida), was motivated by Alfred J. Lotka's articles on the energetics of evolution, and subsequently proposed the theory that natural systems tend to operate at an efficiency that produces the maximum power output, not the maximum efficiency.[33] This theory in turn motivated Odum to propose maximum power as a fundamental thermodynamic law.
Environment, Power, and Society ... intended to explain basic concepts of ecology using Odum's energy language. ... It presented a cogent argument for the limits of industrial growth. Circuit diagrams were skillfully used to illustrate the dependence of agricultural ecosystems and industrial societies upon fossil fuel subsidies ... Voting, public opinion, taxes, even revolution and war could be expressed in the language of energy circuits."
8. Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment ~ Michael and Joyce Huesemann, New Society Publishers, 2011.
12 Online and Facebook and Real Life support and activist groups [pathetically few, unfortunately]
1. Transition Town Network - too bad there are only 477 in the world
2. Peaceful Uprising
3. Deep Green Resistance - Members typing from laptops call for the dismantling of industrial civilization in order to preserve biodiversity (they seem not to have noticed that all 425 nuclear power plants will promptly melt down). Their leader is Derrick Jensen, author of End Game. The blame is placed solely on civilization, as if people weren't violent long before, see http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/14/13000-year-old-skeletons-war-dead-british-museum and the book, War Before Civilization
4. Dark Mountain Project - UK literary and artistic baby co-founded by Paul Kingsnorth of "Walking Away from Environmentalism" fame, with Dougald Hine. Americans are way too stupid to have a coalition like this where they use multiple syllables.
5. Stop Making Babies FaceBook Group
6. NTHESG - Face Book group , full name Near Term Human Extinction Support Group. No talk of potential solutions allowed; stick a fork in it, we're done.
6a. Extinction Radio, weekly broadcast since 2015 - check the archives
7. The Panic Room - an unlisted FB group, [email witsendnj at yahoo dot com to request membership] - sample comment from a member: "Aliens, upon visiting the dead earth in 2159, were looking about for the cause of the mass extinction. They were puzzled that such an advanced species such as humans went extinct, so they began searching for clues as to why. After months of combing through dying cities and libraries, and many places, they found a trail that seemed to point to something called "Hopium". After more digging, they found it was the delusional belief that you are outside the laws of nature and can overcome anything because you are so intelligent. They wasted no time in getting back on their ship and getting the hell off earth before they were infected with this horrible Hopium addiction, and upon returning to their home planet, they gravely warned their fellow comrades about this Hopium and what it did to another planet...."
8. Doomer Party 2016, FaceBook group
9. The Club of Assholes - Destroying the Myth of Infinite Growth - FaceBook group, gleefully presided over by a curmudgeonly Canadian farmer
10. Church of Euthanasia (motto: Save the Planet, Kill Yourself), lecture by A. Kent MacDougall, "Humans as Cancer" can be read here
11. VHEMT - Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, on Facebook
12. Whistling in the Dark FaceBook Group - extinction for parents, mostly
1 - and also the only - Limericist of Doom - Benjamin the Donkey
Wait what - you don't know who Benjamin the Donkey is? SHAME ON YOU - go back and reread Animal Farm - and recall Benjamin's surly but true rumination about the aftermath of a revolution: "Life would go on as it had always gone on — that is, badly." Hardcopy print edition of collected verse, available from Amazon for a measly $4.00.
sample:
We’d be smart to shut our damn yaps
And keep this doom stuff under wraps:
If we kept it hush-hush,
We might put off the rush
To inevitable collapse.
1 most obscure, darkest Diva of Doom (yours truly, the Curator)
Blogging at Wit's End with a guest post at Greg Laden's Science Blog - Whispers of the Ghosting Trees...and if that doesn't scare the wits out of you, you're not looking at the forest!
Apocalyptic music and youtube videos - [like visual artists, musicians seem to be far more attuned to the apocalypse than the general population and so this category - from opera to rock'n'roll - also is for too voluminous to even attempt a partial list here so, see the library page for much more], but top contenders have to be...
1. Michael Jackson's Earth
2. Joni Mitchell's Woodstock
3. World Party - Ship of Fools
4. XTC - Dear God
Gail. You Da Bomb!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mark!
DeleteGreen Energy Illusions.
ReplyDelete► Solar Panels.
Prof. Jian Shuisheng of the Jiatong-University estimates the production of just 6 solar panels requires one ton of coal. This works out to about 660 lbs of coal per square yard of solar panel. This is because the silicon has to be baked at 2,000°F. One company cut down 5 acres of woodland to install solar panels to manufacture plastic bags.
The manufacture of solar panels lets off some of the deadliest greenhouse gases known to humankind. These include hexafluoroethane (12,000 times stronger than CO2), nitrogen trifluoride (17,000 times stronger than C02), and sulfur hexafluoride (23,000 times stronger than C02). Solar manufacturing plants produce 500 tons of hazardous sludge each per year. This sludge is never included in the solar industry carbon footprint data. Chinese solar waste disposal firms have been witnessed dumping this waste behind school yards.
Five kilograms of hydrogen chloride per square meter of solar panel is used to liquefy the metallic silicon. Silicon carbide is used to cut the silicon into wafers. Cadmium telluride panels, or emerging thin film technologies, utilize untested nanomaterials that pose a threat to the environment and workers during the manufacturing and recycling stage.
Dust, humidity, haze, and even heat dramatically affect solar panel output. Solar panels lose up to 1% of their efficiency each year lasting some 20 - 30 years, after which they become toxic waste, containing things like cadmium and other heavy metals. While the cost of the silicon wafers are dropping, they only make up 20% of the installed costs.
► Wind Turbines.
The manufacture of 5, one-megawatt, wind turbines produces 1 ton of radioactive residue and 75 tons of hazardous waste water used to extract and process the needed neodymium. Neodymium is a rare earth mineral. Rare earth minerals are not rare, but they are found in very low concentrations. Neodymium is extracted from crushed rocks using sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide. Then it is processed using solvents, heating and vacuum techniques that require plenty of coal power. Vast unregulated tailings ponds of poisonous water have destroyed whole villages in China.
There are 16 other rare elements. All with the same story.
There is no known replacement for neodymium. During its mining, metals such as arsenic, barium, copper, aluminum, lead and beryllium are released into the air and water, and are toxic to human health. Neodymium is only one of many rare-earth metals that our smart phones and green energy systems need.
Wind turbines only produce 25% of their rated power output over 90% of the time. This means that fossil fuel plants have to burn fuel on standby in case the wind suddenly drops. Since this power is intermittent, we would need at least ten times as much solar-wind power to displace one unit of fossil fuel power.
It is possible to build wind turbines without rare earth elements, but doing so increases the complexity, decreases reliability, and jacks the generator weight up, which in turn means all the support structures have to be more massive, all of which results in higher cost.
► Rechargeable Batteries.
The rechargeable lithium ion batteries we use in everything from the Tesla Electric Car, and Prius Plug-In Car, down to our smart phones, all rely on one critical component―graphite. Graphite is one of the main causes of the terrible air pollution in China. It comes from airborne particles given off by mining operations and washes down from the sky with the rain. Graphite particles foul the air and water; they also damage crops and human lung tissue. This type of smog has gotten so bad that China has shut down several of their graphite mines, creating a shortage and higher prices. Even the mining operations for the newer liquid metal or molten salt batteries for 100% “green” energy would poison the biosphere.
Thanks - I did not know that about the graphite. Sometimes I get the bad feeling that there are things going on in the atmosphere - synergistic chemical reactions - that absolutely nobody has a handle on.
Deletee.g. - The extreme Arctic cold winter of 2010/11 combined with a Nx0 imbalance caused 25% of the ozone to blow away in just over a month. I'm just a guy who cuts grass in a trailer park in Canada, but this scares me.
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► 10,000 years ago humans and our livestock occupied just 0.01% of all the land-air vertebrate biomass on earth.
ReplyDelete► Now humans and our livestock occupy 97% of all land-air vertebrate biomass.
► Humans and our livestock now consume over 50% of earth’s annual green biomass production.
► 50% of All Vertebrate Species will be gone by 2040.
► 90% of Big Ocean Fish gone since 1950.
► 50% of Great Barrier Reef gone since 1985.
► 50% of Fresh Water Fish gone since 1987.
► 30% of Marine Birds gone since 1995.
► 28% of Land Animals gone since 1970.
► 28% of All Marine Animals gone since 1970.
► 50% of Human Sperm gone since 1950.
► Extinctions are 1000 times faster than normal.
► Ocean acidification doubles by 2050.
► Ocean acidification triples by 2100.
► 90% of Lions gone since 1993.
► 93 Elephants killed every single day.
► 2-3 Rhinos killed every single day.
► Bees die from malnutrition lacking bio-diverse pollen sources.
► We are on track to lock in 6°C earth temp rise in just 13 years.
► Mass Extinction becomes unstoppable and irreversible in 40 years.
► Permian mass extinction of 95% of life took 60,000 years 250 million years ago.
► Dinosaurs mass extinction took 33,000 years after asteroid impact.
► Anthropogenic mass extinction will take 300 years max.
► This mass extinction is 100 times faster than anything before us.
► 1 million people born every 4½ days.
► It takes 10 times as much “green” energy to displace 1 unit of fossil energy.
► Efficiency and conservation only causes more growth within current system.
► Antarctic meltdown now irreversible and unstoppable.
► Arctic methane burst is irreversible and unstoppable within current system.
► World Bank says we have 5-10 years before we fight for food and water.
► We combine bacterial DNA with our food plants.
► We put massive amounts of pesticides and herbicides into our food.
► We add nano metals and particles to our food.
► We add man-made, computer designed, synthetic DNA to our food.
► We add thousands of different chemicals to our food.
► We are eating stuff that never existed on earth before.
► We are turning into mutants because of our food.
► We are wiping out all life on earth because of our food.
► Long after the mass extinction, our mutant food plants will live on.
► 2 million children were killed in the Congo for our conflict minerals.
► 1 million children were killed in Iraq for our cheap oil.
► Asian child slaves fish in empty oceans for our seafood dinners.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28463036
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ReplyDeleteGail,
ReplyDeleteYou might wish to add Craig Dilworth's Too Smart for Our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament of Humankind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 to your 'surefire cures for a faith in a technofix.' His elaboration of the Vicious Circle Principle places the ecological predicament and state of overshoot firmly at the door of the human capacity for technological innovation. I think you are familiar with Dilworth's thesis, so was surprised not to see it. Also, Michael and Joyce Huesemann provide a very powerful critique of technology in Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment. Gabriola Island, BC.: New Society Publishers, 2011.
Cheers, as I noted elsewhere, many thanks for your efforts on this great resource.
Paul
Thank you Paul! I did list him on the "Books..." page but put the wrong title, so thanks I will fix it and add a description. This is very much still a work in progress, and there are a lot of placeholders that need embellishment. I will look up the other you mention, also, I am not familiar with it. And thanks too for the link on your blog to Tim Morton, what fun! http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/
DeleteFine compilation, extremely useful for seeing how fractured both the doomers and anti-doomers are. There are so many lines of hate between the putative allies - but you have done yeoman's work in arranging it all to view.
ReplyDeleteTo see the plagiarist Parson Hedges here commended for his weekly dirges shows a weakness for ascetic bullshit - he gets excoriated righteously by the pre-eminent anti-civ radio host John Zerzan, who is the equal of any of these doomers in his critiques, while being as bafflingly preposterous in his anti-nihilist primitivist hopium.
I still haven't figured out why Hedges left the NYTimes, it seems very murky...and the plagiarism thing was a bit oblique (but highly entertaining). I haven't done Zerzan justice yet, I mentioned him but still have to provide a link and some quotes, or something. Thanks for your two posts about left fraud, I enjoyed reading them - the world could use some more doses of that!
DeleteA comment from a reader who had difficulty posting (thanks blogger, you stupid mess!): Nice work...maybe you're the Stewart Brand of Doom, without all the old-fashioned newsprint made from, you know...
ReplyDeleteI'm new to the wealth of details here, but have been seeing our current situation creeping up on me/us in the rear-view mirror, or maybe feeling its breath on my hair ala Maddy Prior in Steeleye Span's "Following Me".
Not surprised that you list Hicks and Carlin in the Comedy, but pleasantly impressed that you chose Stanhope too.
Could you clarify what you mean by 'truthers' in the 'survivalists/gun lovers/truthers/haters' list in the early section? Does this include conspiracy analysts ala Gore Vidal and other not-too-crazy people? Just asking because you do have some posts about chemtrails in your blog. Or are 'truthers' maybe related to the 'birthers' of a few years ago?
A-a-and you have a photo of Benjamin the Donkey! There's this guy named Pynchon down in NYC - maybe next time you're down there for an Art excursion, pack your camera just in case? He'll probably be the fellow reflected in the glass of that Tchelitchew painting, Hide and Seek.
And feel free to cut this if it's old news, but I read that a memorial tree planted in honor of George Harrison died in LA recently...overwhelmed by...beetles. That Goddess, she's gotta be an iron.
I had seen that about the G. Harrison tree - it's in a draft for a tree post at Wit's End if I ever get around to finishing it. To be honest I vacillate about 9/11. I wouldn't put it past TPTB to do anything so depraved, but I have read some pretty convincing debunking of the evidence that the truthers have published. I definitely think the chemtrails are nonsense. There is definitely zero real evidence other than wild claims, and the resistance that the advocates have to alternative explanations - I have had many interactions with them - is stubbornly ideological. There is tempting comfort in blaming a secret cabal for a dying biosphere, when in reality, we are all contributing to it with the pollution we release individually or indirectly.
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DeleteJust reading about Timur's collection of skulls makes me reluctant to put anything past TPTB. These days they don't have to get their hands dirty and some financial actions can be worse than swords.
Oops, I didn't read any of the chemtrails stuff here, just dumbly figured from the headings that you were 'reporting on them'. Not the first time I have burned before pillaging (from an old Wizard of ID comic), probably won't be the last.
But I did watch the 'mysterious substance in Portland' clip and it had me going briefly. Only thing it might have had extra was a TV in the room w/ Alex Jones on the screen.
Yes, I am with you about all of us contributing to our own demise and that of the trees and most of the other living things. That said, I resist the temptation to believe that all contributions are equal. Local loans made by the farm co-op near me in Costa Rica don't have the same impact that Goldman-Sachs does. They're both related to the banking system that inductively (or is it recursively?) spawns the infinite growth paradigm by demanding interest. But size, speed and the resultant momentum do matter. Higher fuel consumption and freon notwithstanding, the basic problem isn't running the A/C in your car...it's using the big motor to get from A to B.
Gedankenexperiment (or maybe a koan): If modern banking had stopped after making the first $10 loan at 10% interest, where would the 11th dollar have come from?
So, yep, we're all in the docket for the death by a thousand cuts or emissions that we're killing the planet with, but some groups have more notches on their knife handles than others.
R.A.Wilson, who often referred to George as 'the philosopher Carlin' wrote about secret cabals/societies. His take wasn't that there is A CABAL, but that there are dozens, sometimes cooperating with one or more of the others, sometimes competing. To me, the more tempting comfort would be to believe that the surface reality as served up by media over the eras is more or less all that there is.
History, even as mostly written by conquerors, seems to tell me it's not.
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ReplyDeleteSelf-Aggrandizing Agonizing Stand Up vs. Apocalyptic Optimistic Profiteering?
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the mega earth corps tells us to be happy with "democracy"
the EROI for the conflict, rare earth, heavy metals approaches - Z
the green energy system uses lays waste to too much water that's now in the air
our mutated food is killing thing everything without reversing or stopping
the wet bulb tropics will dry up and burn
if the super rich don't survive
the GMO trees will inherit the earth in the north for a while
the banks say it's green energy all the way
the 6 to half-dozen or so.
when u believe this
u're too stupid to live
read lotsa wordz - thinx
there is no green energy no clean coal
no methane leaking gas reductions no nothing
i hope clean thorium can help clean uranium waste
but i'm sometimes too >>>>>> to live
http://doomfordummies.blogspot.co.at/2014/07/blog-post.html
Did you know that the new $2 billion Ivanpah solar plant in the Mojave desert is a death ray that ignites birds in mid flight? When their bodies fall to the ground, they leave smoky trails in the sky called streamers. They estimate up to 30,000 birds per year will die this way. During construction, some 3,000 endangered desert tortoises were killed. Over 1.2 million Tibetans were killed when they were forced into slave labour in China's mines to help produce the minerals for its construction. Green power is great!
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ReplyDeleteA Long Time Ago When The Earth Was Green
ReplyDeleteOur food will cause the largest, fastest, unstoppable, irreversible anthropogenic mass extinction event where invasive genetic plants will inherit the earth. These plants will have a distributed intelligence network with grass seeds who will all agree that the last few genetically mutated cows were cereal killers. We have turned food into something deadly, never seen on earth before. It will send nano RNA molecules derived from bacteria through our cells to form a new distributed intelligence network that will make humans speed their own demise. All kidding aside, they will control "food", the poisonous stuff we eat now to control the future millions because billion will be gone in the last death throes of humanity. Some may survive for a while in the hostile planet from the paradise that was our home.
There were more kinds of animals than you ever seen
There is no "green" energy.
Thousands die in China's mines for
our solar/wind fantasies
Anthropogenic Mass Extinction is
100 times faster than anything before
in all of earth's history
Those minerals are approaching
a cost benefit tipping point where
there ain't no benefit for all the cost
Five one megawatt wind turbines
produce 75 tons of toxic water
and one ton of radioactive earth
lithium batteries cause deadly raining
smog ash in China from graphite dust
the tree farms are destroying all life
we exceeded the very worse emissions by far for years
we ignored Kyoto
Gas and oil fracking use more water
while the tropics go into drought
where you can't lay on a beach
naked, not moving in the shade
with a big drink
and it will be too hot to stay alive
the killing has already started
we always pretend the killing is about religion
ReplyDeletewhen it's about money and power
this is why we will fail
I would wish to use Thorium to clean up Uranium
we have to get started no matter how late
but we are too stupid to live
I'm pretty sure Lonewolf coined the term "hopium", it's on one of my old forums around the year 2000, but I can't be certain. A good addition your list of "25 words" (make that 26).
ReplyDeleteHe's gone dark, like so many of us have. It's unbelievably painful to watch this unfold.
And still we do nothing.
Thanks, added Hopium to the list, great idea!
DeleteWhat a fantastic list! Thank you for taking the time and the effort for assembling this!
ReplyDeleteA very good list but ... you should dump Mark Lynus, for reasons you already know and instead add Dave Cohen, author of the blog "Decline of the Empire". As far as I am concerned you and Dave are the best bloggers on, what will prove to be our fatal short comings, as a species. Dave is presently summing up the work he did at "Decline of the Empire" in a two part essay which he is posting as "Adventures in Flatland". The first has already been posted: http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2014/08/adventures-in-flatland.html#more. I think Dave's essay and your list complement each other nicely.
ReplyDeleteI see I made a fool of my self! Of course, Dave is on the list and I guess your judgement concerning Lynus is fair. Bless your heart for doing this. I plan to print up the Universal Map of Doom and Dave's essay as essential reading on the "People's Climate Train" -- from San Fran to NYC. I will need to protect myself from what otherwise could be a fatal dose of hopium. I have family in New York and its time I see them again. So why not take in the Climate hootenanny as well? Oh, I would say you Dave's "take home message" down pat as well.
ReplyDeleteHi Gail, what a great list! Thanks for taking the time to compile it. I will check back often just to make sure I'm not missing anything on the way down :-)
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Here's a vocabulary word that belongs near hopium:
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udopia
The fictional happy place, where dumbies live out their delusions of grandeur.
Man I would like to have some of that stuff that the Fed and Wall Street have been smokin', I'd like to be in Udopia, too.
From the Urban Dictionary
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ReplyDeleteMASS DELUSION & GREEN ENERGY
See the explosive copper production chart:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper#mediaviewer/File:Copper_-_world_production_trend.svg
See the explosive copper price chart:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper#mediaviewer/File:Copper_Price_History_USD.png
See expert opinion on peak copper:
http://www.mining.com/web/peak-copper/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jFFGYwOQX4
40% total Green Energy use, requires 200% more copper:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/10/making-lots-of-renewable-energy-equipment-doesnt-boost-pollution/
6 POINTS:
► Energy demands to increase 50% by 2060
► Emissions have to decrease 80% by 2060
► Peak copper hits 2030 - 2040
► We mined 50% of all the copper in human history in just 30 years
► 100% green energy requires 500% more copper
► Post peak copper production cannot accelerate at any price
SUMMATION:
► We cannot physically afford to mine 500% more copper.
► We cannot recycle it into existence.
► We cannot conserve it into existence.
► We cannot efficacize it into existence.
► We can dream it into existence all we want.
► We are f*cked. Now, here's how we are double f*cked.
MASS & EXTINCTION
► Humans and livestock are 97% of land vertebrate biomass
► Humans and livestock eat 40% of land chlorophyll biomass
► 50% of vertebrate species died off in the last 50 years.
► 50% of vertebrate species will die off in next 40 years.
FINAL CONCLUSION
► There are 6 reasons for mass extinction.
► Climate Change is only 1 of 6 reasons for mass extinction.
► Green Energy will not stop the end of life on earth.
I started hoarding food so long ago a bunch of it went bad 😣
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ReplyDeleteEnergy demand is going to go up 50% at the exact same time emissions have to go down 80% and also at the very same time that post peak minerals forces recognition of the obvious, we are fucked and there is nothing we can do about it. We can't recycle our way out because of what Ugo Bardi calls "downcycling", which is the degradation of quality recycled materials deliver. Research into recycling is promising, but dwindles compared to post peak production dynamics.
We've mined 50% of all the copper ever mined in human history in just the last 30 years. We are on track for copper to peak between 2030 and 2040. We do not have anywheres near enough copper for our green energy fantasies, and copper is only one example of many. After peak minerals, we cannot accelerate post peak mineral production no matter what the price of that mineral is. We already move some 3 billion tons of earth for 15 million tons of copper, and we will soon have to move lots more for much less. This can't go on.
And no, you cannot substitute your way out of this. Aluminum is brittle, fire-prone and costs 5 times the energy of copper. Aluminum wire costs twice as much to produce as copper wire. Our faith in material substitutes has to break before it breaks us. We have to have a low-carbon plan that is realistically achievable, and not trillions of batteries, blades and panels. To power Britain today with 100% green energy, you would have to cover 25% of their country with green energy materials. This is plainly as stupid as it is materially mass foolish, or pound foolish as they say.
Our monetary-military culture grew up from minerals and will flame out because of them. We are buying a stairway straight to hell. Going to wikipedia to look up mineral reserves is as reliable as getting your palm read at a county fair. Money is the root of all evil. This is why any future carbon tax dividends should be 100% all yours in a new direct deposit world wide e-currency powered by nuclear thorium because we can't mine green energy minerals without digging up already radioactive thorium.
Green energy demands we flood the world with billions of tons of batteries. The thorium power will pay for the green energy minerals and destruct battery mass demand. This will change only the mineral-energy imbalance but not any other environmental overshoots. I do not like this reality, but anything is better than the nonsense we engage intellectually now.
Math Made Easy: The Confluence of Crises Formula
Minerals overshoot +
Climate overshoot +
Ecological overshoot +
Population overshoot =
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Near Term Mass Extinction
next chapter: lunch money; diamonds are for heifers extinctions are for evers
hint: search for anything Megan Amram says.
Ehhh...well, I was just reading about how people used shells as money 10,000 years ago, so if money is the root of all evil, what is the root of money?
ReplyDeleteIt's not that money is the root of all evil, but the love of money is.
DeleteGreat compilation, Gail. Fun to read decades of memories- though a sad commentary on our species.
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ReplyDeleteTotal eco-destruction is something I think would only be possible is we somehow put off the crisis point beyond 2050 (probably via a very nasty elite dictatorship) - then all bets on environment and human future are off. I think humans would survive even that, but not many and it would be thousands of years to become a global force again.
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