tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38310472681898556632024-03-13T09:59:54.082-07:00Universal Map of DoomThe Apocalypsi Library at the End of the WorldGail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3831047268189855663.post-33301559615788039582014-07-12T07:20:00.002-07:002021-04-21T12:45:55.111-07:00200 and 1 Essentials to Navigate the Doomosphere Map...for the Novice (and the Obsessed!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Surely you can't have failed to notice the bellicose headlines warning of</span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 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)?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Welcome</i> 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 <i><b>YOU</b></i> can add to it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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!</span></div>
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~ George Frederic Watts, 1886</div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now that you've started to suspect that humanity is FUBAR (f*cked up beyond all repair) don't be intimidated! T</span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">his, 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.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. The *1* indispensable symbol:</span></b></h3>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">...it's an hourglass shape, because...time has run out - <i>get it???</i></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">7 major scourges of Doom (and why their adherents squabble over the scraps rather than accomplish anything useful together whatsoever).</span></b></h3>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. Peak Oil (rarely recognizes peak anything else, generally fixated on doomsteading)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2. Ecosystem Collapse (an ecological perspective about pollution, whole systems destruction)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3. Climate Change (yes, it's real, it's caused by humans, and it's an existential threat)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4. Overpopulation (no, the world doesn't need your offspring because you're "special")</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">5. Habitat Destruction (deforestation, mining, fracking, drilling, paving, etc)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">6. Economic - (includes debt Ponzi schemes and inequality, social justice issues)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">7. The death of the Oceans (from agricultural runoff, warming, overfishing and acidification)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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 <b><i>they</i></b> have defined the precise problem (which usually has to do with how they came about to notice) and second, they are sure they, <i><b>and they alone</b></i>, 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!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Nomenclature and acronyms in the Doomer lexicography you'll need to know if you don't want to drown in alien, perplexing terminology</b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">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 </span><a href="http://www.geologicnow.com/2_Turpin+Federighi.php"><span style="color: purple;">Anthropozic</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;">, 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 </span><a href="http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/earth+system+sciences/book/978-%2094-007-7331-8"><span style="color: purple;">discovery of fire</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">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 </span><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/19/1313846/-Books-So-Bad-They-re-Good-Objectifying-the-Apocalypse"><span style="color: purple;">Ayn Rand acolytes have their heads explode</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3. NTE, NTHE - Near Term Extinction; for extra pizzazz, Near Term Human Extinction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">4. CliFi - a genre of fiction based on climate change, see </span><a href="http://formerpeople.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/climate-friction-an-interview-with-dan-bloom-on-cli-fi/"><span style="color: purple;">an interview</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> with Dan Bloom on the emerging canon, much more listed on the fiction page</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">4. Energy slaves - the amount of work performed for us by fossil fuels, converted to the human equivalent of effort - </span><a href="http://22billionenergyslaves.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/our-army-of-invisible-helpers.html"><span style="color: purple;">22 billion, by one estimate</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">5. </span><a href="http://www.vhemt.org/"><span style="color: purple;">VHEMT</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> - Voluntary Human Extinction Movement - "may we live long and die out" - so far no members have volunteered to go first</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">6. BAU - Business As Usual...generally used in the context of, we are screwed if we continue </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">7. MPP - Maximum Power Principle</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">8. Hospice - Where you are now, you just don't know it</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">9. Doomstead - The well-stocked hideaway where silly people think they can escape the zombie hordes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">10. Positive/amplifying feedback - effects that dwarf the initial forcing of CO2, making climate change non-linear and rapid - such as the albedo effect...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">13. EROEI - Energy Return on Energy Invested...how much it costs to extract energy compared to how much energy is obtained</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">14. HIPPO - Habitat loss, population, pollution, overshoot...adds up to a whole lotta trouble</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">15. Hubbert's Curve - graphs the inevitable decline of resources, originally for oil wells</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">16. Seneca Cliff - </span><a href="http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2011/08/seneca-effect-origins-of-collapse.html"><span style="color: purple;">a graph</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> showing that things go downhill much faster than they went up</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">20. Apocalyptic Anxiety [also known as PRE-traumatic stress syndrome]: </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">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 </span><em style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">apocalyptic anxiety</em></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. <i><u>Apocalyptic anxiety anticipates the collapse of all meaningfulness</u></i>."</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ~ </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-relating-existing/201312/death-afterlife-and-doomsday-scenario"><span style="color: purple;">Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D.</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: ghostwhite;">"Humanity is doubling down on its Faustian climate bargain by pumping up fossil fuel particulate and nitrogen pollution...</span><span style="background-color: ghostwhite;">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...</span><span style="background-color: ghostwhite;">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."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">28. Methane, <u>get used to it</u> - 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, </span><a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/24722-the-giant-methane-monster-lurking"><span style="color: purple;">see</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> <i>The Giant Methane Monster Lurking </i>with the ludicrous suggestion at the end - </span></span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The time for a carbon tax is now</i></span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>! </i> [haha!]</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. When man interferes with the Tao</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ~ </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lao Tzu, </span><i style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tao Te Ching</i><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, 500 BCE, appx</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thomas </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Malthus ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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." -</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>An Essay on The Principle of Population</i>, First Edition 1798 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4. Thomas Hobbes , English philosopher 1588-1679 and author of <i>Leviathan</i>. He famously said that in the absence of rule of a monarch, the original, natural condition of humanity was to live in perpetual <i>warre</i> - "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 <span style="background-color: white;">"...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." </span>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).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The tide of the Earth's population is rising, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“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?” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">“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.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">12. Isaac Asimov - Professor of Biochemistry, author of many books of science fiction. From </span><a href="http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/future_of_humanity.html"><span style="color: purple;">the transcription</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> of a lecture in 1974, <i>The Future of Humanity</i>: </span>"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!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A Parable for Humanity</i>? Cartoonist Stuart McMillen <a href="http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/cartoon-blog/urban-times-reflections-st-matthew-island/"><span style="color: purple;">reflects</span></a> on "the fragile basis of our prosperity":</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">1. <i>Learning to Die in the Anthropocene</i> (</span><a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/learning-how-to-die-in-the-anthropocene/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0"><span style="color: purple;">New York Times</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;">) ~ Roy Scranton</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"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."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">2. Paul Kingsnorth ~ </span><i style="color: #20124d;">Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist</i><span style="color: #20124d;"> published in </span><a href="http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6599/"><span style="color: purple;"><i>Orion Magazine</i></span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> - A bit too precious, perhaps, but still a jewel with rare purity.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">"</span><span style="background-color: white;">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."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">(Also, part of a <a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/i-withdraw-a-talk-with-climate-defeatist-paul-kingsnorth/"><span style="color: purple;">protracted exchange</span></a> with Wen Stephenson about hope v. defeatism.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">3. Christy Rodgers, T<i>he Bellwethers</i>, </span><span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://christyrodgers.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/the-bellwethers/#more-646"><span style="color: purple;">published November 2013</span></a> ~</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"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."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4. <i>The Irreconcilable Acceptance of Near Term Extinction</i> ~ Daniel Drumright, published at <a href="http://guymcpherson.com/2013/04/the-irreconcilable-acceptance-of-near-term-extinction/"><span style="color: purple;">Nature Bats Last</span></a>, 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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Made our cares up till then appear tame:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Blew everyone’s mind,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And since then we’ve not been the same.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">5. At <i>Love in a Time of Cataclysm</i>, by <a href="http://jpgreenhouse.blogspot.com/2014/08/okay-doomers-lets-march.html"><span style="color: purple;">JP Greenhouse</span></a> - <i>Okay, Doomers, Let's March</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>From 2018/2019, a Newly Emerging Gaggle of *Celebrity Apocalypsists*™ - expect many more as the masses panic and seek soothing gurus!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. David Wallace Wells infuriated the scientific community with his article in <i>New York </i>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. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: serif;">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.</span></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1408324053211_2939" style="padding: 0px;"><span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2. Al Bartlett, Professor Emeritus in Physics and population control crusader, author of </span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Essential Exponential for the Future of our Planet - "</span></i><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #261b0e;">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 </span><a href="http://www.albartlett.org/interviews/barbosa_bartlett_interview.html"><span style="color: purple;">2009 interview</span></a><span style="color: #261b0e;"> where he explains why technology cannot save us.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">8. Ronald Wright, <i>A Short History of Progress</i> - </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"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."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">10. Paul Ehrlich, professor and author (with his wife Anne) of <i>The Population Bomb</i>, published 1968.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">20. Gail Tverborg aka Gail the Actuary - maintains </span><a href="http://ourfiniteworld.com/"><span style="color: purple;">the blog</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> 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".</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“...humankind's presence on Earth is nothing but a cancer...” and ... </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span></span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">30. Ugo Bardi - blogger at </span><a href="http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: purple;">Cassandra's Legacy</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;">, now known as </span><i style="color: #20124d;">Resource Crisis</i><span style="color: #20124d;"> - started out with a peak oil perspective, but woke up to climate change. See an excerpt from his recent book </span><a href="http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/24975-with-the-plundering-of-fossil-fuels-the-future-may-be-the-past-an-agrarian-society"><span style="color: purple;">here</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">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! </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nzwJg4Ebzo"><span style="color: purple;">Watch her</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> explain the jetstream.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">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 </span><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/p078ut6lroufozk/Oreskes%20Collapse.pdf"><span style="color: purple;">fictionalized version</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> of <i>The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View From The Future</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">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 </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iM_f_j7H08"><span style="color: purple;"><i>Abrupt Climate Change</i></span></a><span style="color: #20124d;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">6. <i>Climate Code Red</i> - an Australian </span><a href="http://www.climatecodered.org/p/about.html"><span style="color: purple;">website</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> 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). T</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">heir 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 </span><i style="color: #20124d;">Dangerous Climate Change: Myths and Reality</i> <a href="http://www.climatecodered.org/2014/08/dangerous-climate-change-myths-and.html"><span style="color: purple;">report</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">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 </span><a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/freaked-out-climate-scientists-urge-other-freaked-out-climate-scientists-to-speak-up-fight-man/"><span style="color: purple;">a Grist article</span></a> <i style="color: #20124d;">Freaked Out Climate Scientists</i><span style="color: #20124d;"> and don't miss </span><a href="http://grist.org/climate-policy/2011-12-08-the-brutal-logic-of-climate-change-mitigation/"><span style="color: purple;">the followup story</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;">, <i>The Brutal Logic of Climate Change Mitigation</i>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">9. The </span><a href="http://www.climaterapidresponse.org/about.php"><span style="color: purple;"><i>Climate Science Rapid Response Team</i></span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> 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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">11. Michael Mann - he's cute when he gets mad, see </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Hockey-Stick-Climate-Wars/dp/023115254X"><span style="color: purple;">his book</span></a> <i style="color: #20124d;">The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars - Dispatches from the Front Lines</i><span style="color: #20124d;">. 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 </span><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-will-cross-the-climate-danger-threshold-by-2036/"><span style="color: purple;">admit it's too late</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;">, in </span><i style="color: #20124d;">Earth Will Cross the Climate Danger Threshold by 2036</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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]</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. James Lovelock, author, <i>The Vanishing Face of Gaia</i> who once said </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Man is a tribal carnivore, not a gentle gardener." He has</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> since recanted his worst predictions making him probably the most famous case of "going emeritus". See his </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/website%20http://www.jameslovelock.org/"><span style="color: purple;">website</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;">, and an </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Vip-PbuZQ"><span style="color: purple;">interview</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2.<span style="color: purple;"> <a href="http://realclimate.org/"><span style="color: purple;">Real Climate</span></a></span><span style="color: #20124d;">, a blog written by traditionally no-drama "reticent" climate scientists. </span></span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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 </span><a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/06/unforced-variations-june-2014/#sthash.OaOduHdW.dpuf" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: purple;">June open forum</span></a><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">: "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."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">3. Mark Lynus, author, </span><i><span style="color: purple;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227477.Six_Degrees"><span style="color: purple;">Six Degrees</span></a>:</span><span style="color: purple;"> </span>Our Future on a Hotter Planet</i> - 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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">4. Richard Heinberg - Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute, prolific writer and lecturer about the energy and environmental crises, </span><a href="http://www.postcarbon.org/person/36200-richard-heinberg"><span style="color: purple;">website</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> and interview on </span><span style="color: purple;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/radioecoshock/richard-heinberg-what-to-do"><span style="color: purple;">RadioEcoshock</span></a> </span>"What to do While Your Waiting for the Crash" - an excellent recent article in <span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-07-22/two-realities"><span style="color: purple;">Resilience</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">5. Nafeez Ahmed - </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight"><span style="color: purple;">UK Guardian writer</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> who specializes in sophisticated, comprehensive warnings about the colossal wreck we are making; and how we can fix it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">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 </span><a href="http://www.macleans.ca/society/life/the-nature-of-david-suzuki/"><span style="color: purple;">interview with him</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> 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"!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">9. Clive Hamilton, excellent writer, truculently optimistic, check out his book </span><i><a href="http://clivehamilton.com/books/requiem-for-a-species/"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Requiem for a Species</span></a></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> and this misguided </span><a href="http://clivehamilton.com/the-new-environmentalism-will-lead-us-to-disaster/"><span style="color: purple;">article</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;">, </span><i style="color: #20124d;">The New Environmentalism Will Lead Us To Disaster</i><span style="color: #20124d;">, in which his admirable zeal to expose the "pragmatists" leads him to miss the worldwide significance of megafauna extinction as elucidated in </span><a href="https://labs.eemb.ucsb.edu/young/hillary/PDF/Dirzo_et_al_2014_Sci_Review.pdf"><span style="color: purple;">this study</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> (okay that is getting a bit arcane but here is an excerpt anyway): </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“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. <i>These extinctions altered ecosystem processes and disturbance regimes at continental scales, triggering cascades of extinction thought to still reverberate today</i>.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">10. Chris Hedges - a veteran reporter who takes courageous stances and writes brilliantly from perilous locations, author of <i>War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning</i>. He has a tendency to preach, but oh what sermons he publishes weekly in <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/staff/chris_hedges"><span style="color: purple;">Truthdig</span></a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">11<i>.<span style="color: purple;"> </span><a href="http://citizensclimatelobby.org/"><span style="color: purple;">Citizens Climate Lobby</span></a></i><span style="color: #20124d;"> - 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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">12. Robert Scribbler - prolific and cleverly eloquent compiler of the latest doomy news but still insists there is a way to evade the worst. </span><a href="http://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: purple;">Follow his blog here</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">13<i>. Arctic News</i> and </span><a href="http://methane-hydrates.blogspot.com/p/about.html"><span style="color: purple;">other blogs</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> hosted by Sam Carana, who predicts extinction without geoegineering. Of course, geoengineering won't do a thing for overshoot, but whatever.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> 14. <i>Arctic Methane Emergency Group</i> - </span><a href="http://ameg.me/"><span style="color: purple;">AMEG</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> - warns of abrupt climate change and runaway warming once the Arctic is ice-free in summer - 2015?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">16. Dmitry Orlov - a blogger (</span><a href="http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: purple;"><i>ClubOrlov</i></span></a><span style="color: #20124d;">) and author (<i>Five States of Collapse</i>;<i> Communities That Abide</i>) 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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">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 </span><a href="http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/blog/"><span style="color: purple;">here</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">18. Nate Hagens - peak oiler who thinks climate change is exaggerated and holds out hope that humans will change, even though </span><a href="http://www.themonkeytrap.us/"><span style="color: purple;">his website</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> is named <i>The Monkey Trap</i> "...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."</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He writes: "The beliefs in powerlessness, futility, and nihilism are powerful ones. They are nearly as powerful as denial of scientific facts in rationalizing personal inaction. Ergo, deciding to spend all of ones time finding personal peace and dancing around a campfire wearing a badger mask accomplishes as much for the future we care about as a full-on life of fossil fueled smorgasboard, imo. Nothing. Our situation calls for dignity, integrity, creativity and probably some discomfort....What we do, what we think, and how we live our lives matters." Sure it matters - to </span><i style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">us</i><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. It matters not a whit to Mother Nature though.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">19. Naomi Klein - </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">author of <i>The Shock Doctrine</i> and soon to be released <i>This Changes Everything; capitalism vs. the climate</i>. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 21px;">Another enterprising apocaloptimist in a crowded field</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> - in fact, she advocates a collapse of capitalism and growth - but had a baby because it signifies "hope". Good luck baby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">See a <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/dec/04/can-climate-change-cure-capitalism/"><span style="color: purple;">devastating critique</span></a> of her fuzzy thinking by Elizabeth Kolbert, from the NYRB 12/14.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[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<span style="line-height: 21px;"> 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.]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">20. Noam Chomsky - Professor at MIT, author of many books ripping "American Exceptionalism". From <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/american_socrates_20140615"><span style="color: purple;">an interview</span></a> 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</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">2. Any climate denier, especially the slick ones...like </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Bjørn Lomborg</span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> as described in a Scientific American </span><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/act-on-climate-change-but-tackle-other-global-problems-too/" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: purple;">article</span></a><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> that PRAISES the false choices he presents! BARF!...and those that are educated enough to know better, like physicist </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Happer of Princeton, who </span><a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/07/15/cnbcs-climate-expert-demonization-of-carbon-dio/200107" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: purple;">compared</span></a><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“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 </span><span class="s1" style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Cassandra</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">. 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.’”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>2. Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb</i> (see <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/almost-everything-in-dr-strangelove-was-true"><span style="color: purple;">review</span></a> at The New Yorker)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="color: #20124d;">4. </i><i>Inferno</i>, <span style="color: #20124d;">by Dan Brown, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dan_Brown_novel)"><span style="color: purple;">wiki entry</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"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?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">9. <i> The Road</i>, Cormac McCarthy (also a movie)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“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.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"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."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"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."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“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.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“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.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 21px;">"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 </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 21px;">fun</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 21px;"> 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 </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 21px;">Snowpiercer</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 21px;">, which must be seen to be disbelieved."</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2. Tim DeChristopher, who served jail time for bidding up mining rights on land in an illegal BAL auction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">"Maximum power theory and the proposal for additional laws of thermodynamics/energetics...</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br id="yui_3_16_0_6_1408723361984_12" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;" /><br id="yui_3_16_0_6_1408723361984_14" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">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.</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_6_1408723361984_17" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">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."</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">1. </span><a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/by-number?page=15"><span style="color: purple;">Transition Town</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> Network - too bad there are only 477 in the world</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">6a. Extinction Radio, </span><a href="http://www.extinctionradio.org/"><span style="color: purple;">weekly broadcast</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> since 2015 - check the archives</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">7. </span><i style="color: #20124d;">The Panic Room</i><span style="color: #20124d;"> - an unlisted FB group, [email witsendnj at yahoo dot com to request membership] - sample comment from </span><a href="https://plus.google.com/110537379669977194900"><span style="color: purple;">a member</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;">: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"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...."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">8. Doomer Party 2016, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/DoomerParty2016/permalink/776935172329962/"><span style="color: purple;">FaceBook group</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">10. </span><i>Church of Euthanasia</i> (motto: Save the Planet, Kill Yourself), lecture by A. Kent MacDougall, "Humans as Cancer" can be read <a href="http://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/e-sermons/humcan.html"><span style="color: purple;">here</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">11. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/2208130372/"><span style="color: purple;"><i><b>VHEMT</b></i></span></a> - Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, on Facebook</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">12. <i>Whistling in the Dark</i> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/143055029198372/"><span style="color: purple;">FaceBook Group</span></a> - extinction for parents, mostly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Wait what - you don't know who Benjamin the Donkey is? SHAME ON YOU - go back and reread </span><i style="color: #20124d;">Animal Farm - </i><span style="color: #20124d;">and recall Benjamin's surly but true rumination about the aftermath of a revolution</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #20124d;">: </span><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">"Life would go on as it had always gone on — that is, badly." Hardcopy print edition of collected verse, </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Limericks-Doom-Benjamin-The-Donkey/dp/1481279815"><span style="color: purple;">available from Amazon</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> for a measly $4.00.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 most obscure, darkest Diva of Doom (yours truly, the Curator)</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Blogging at Wit's End with </span><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2013/01/29/whispers-from-the-ghosting-trees/"><span style="color: purple;">a guest post</span></a><span style="color: #20124d;"> at Greg Laden's Science Blog - <i>Whispers of the Ghosting Trees</i>...and if that doesn't scare the wits out of you, you're not looking at the forest!</span></span><br />
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1. Michael Jackson's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAi3VTSdTxU"><span style="color: purple;">Earth</span></a></div>
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