The text discusses the author's history of believing in doomsday predictions, such as Y2K and religious prophecies, and how he has now become collapse-aware due to climate change, peak oil, biodiversity loss, and pollution. He exp...
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The text discusses the author's feelings about the state of the modern world, including climate change, isolation, and the collapse of civilization. The author expresses a desire to live off the grid and escape the negative impact...
The text describes the author's experience of becoming collapse-aware, which means understanding that civilization is unsustainable and will eventually collapse due to climate change, pollution, resource depletion, and biodiversit...
The text discusses the normalization of extreme events such as genocide, climate change, and war, and how society is becoming desensitized to these occurrences. It also highlights the sacrifice of Aaron Bushnell, who self-immolate...
The author explains that the main reason for becoming a doomer is the realization that humans are incapable of overcoming the monumental challenge of climate change and resource depletion. The text discusses the psychological and ...
The text discusses the climate migrant crisis and the potential for hundreds of millions of people to travel North in search of safety. It compares the reaction to a few million refugees from Syria to the potential reaction to 1.2...
The United States is producing more oil than any country in world history, despite the fact that Joe Biden called climate change an existential threat to humanity. The Inflation Reduction Act included several hundred billions of d...
The text discusses the author's realization of the inevitable collapse of civilization due to unsustainable practices and the reasons why most people are not aware of it. The collapse is attributed to overconsumption of resources,...
The world has already ended due to superstorms, megadroughts, heat waves, rising sea levels, toxic chemicals, and mass extinction. Climate change, pollution, and habitat loss are causing the sixth mass extinction. The Anthropocene...
The author reflects on how the apocalypse is not what they expected, and how people are ignoring the signs of collapse. They discuss their own fears and how they tried to warn their family, but were met with silence. They express ...
The text discusses the impacts of climate change, including floods, droughts, heat waves, and wildfires. It explains the relationship between carbon dioxide and temperature, the Holocene epoch, the behavior of the jet stream, and ...
The text explains that civilization is doomed due to exponential growth, ecological overshoot, and dwindling resources. It discusses the concept of exponential growth and how it leads to overshoot, using the example of the St. Mat...
The text discusses the inevitable collapse of modern civilization due to climate change, biodiversity loss, resource scarcity, and pollution. It argues that false hope is unethical and that accepting the unsustainability of civili...
The text discusses the collapse of civilization and the uncertainty of when it will happen. The author reflects on the impact of this knowledge and the potential timeline for the collapse, considering factors such as climate chang...
The author discusses their journey from being collapse-aware to accepting the inevitability of collapse, realizing that no amount of preparation can truly save them, and deciding to focus on living in the present.
The author reflects on the rapid advancement of technology and the exponential growth of the global population, attributing it to the discovery and use of fossil fuels. The text discusses the potential consequences of the decline ...
2023 is on track to be the hottest year in recorded history, with record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather events. The return of El Niño is contributing to the rapid increase in global temperatures, and the effects of clim...