As Sam Mitchell famously said, if you ask 12 doomers to give a definition of what it means to be a doomer, you will get 13 different answers. Or 22. Or even more. In this post I’ve listed many of the most well-known types of doomers. I am sure there are plenty more, and each would define yet another new […]
This essay was originally published on Thursday, July 4, 2019 on Gail Zawacki’s Wit’s End blog. Sadly, our dear friend Gail Zawacki passed away on June 9, 2022, shortly after a diagnosis of cancer. Here is her obituary. Gail was known as the “Diva of Doom” and was an organizer along with her extensive writing about doom. I first met […]
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I admit, I have poor comprehension skills when it comes to reading essays and creative writing. Give me numbers all day long, but ask me to make sense of word-soup, no, my head just swims. This lack on my part was put to the test when I tried to make sense of Genevieve Guenther’s so called “third and final form […]
It’s a tough time to be a doomer. Doomers are acutely aware of the planet’s acclerating collapse and ongoing sixth great extinction. This includes record-breaking fires, floods, heatwaves, storms and dozens of other human-caused impacts that are creating suffering for life around the planet. We are exhausted by the volume of information we ingest: that it’s happening faster than expected, […]
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This post contains ‘doom quotes’ posted to my Bluesky account in April, 2025. Please follow me on Bluesky for more daily ‘doom quotes.’ Thanks! APRIL, 2025 April 30, 2025 “We are dismantling the ecological foundations of our existence, from coral reefs to rainforests, with a recklessness that ensures not just the loss of biodiversity but the collapse of the systems that […]
This post contains ‘doom quotes’ posted to my Bluesky account in March, 2025. Please follow me on Bluesky for more daily ‘doom quotes.’ Thanks! MARCH, 2025 March 31, 2025 “The world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of […]
This post contains ‘doom quotes’ posted to my Bluesky account in February, 2025. Please follow me on Bluesky for more daily ‘doom quotes.’ Thanks! FEBRUARY, 2025 February 28, 2025 “They said it started with the air—too much poison, too many machines, and a planet that couldn’t breathe anymore. By the time we noticed, it was too late; the cities were […]
This post contains ‘doom quotes’ posted to my Bluesky account in January, 2025. Please follow me on Bluesky for more daily ‘doom quotes.’ Thanks! JANUARY, 2025 January 31, 2025 “What they said was that climate change would increase the rate of extinction under every single scenario.” Climate-Driven Extinction, Climate Emergency Forum January 30, 2025 “I picked the wrong week to […]
I’ve been seeing “25 billion Hiroshima bombs worth of heating” in the media for well over a year now. This number is supposed to represent a way to help the average person visualize the total amount of heating of the planet caused by GHGs since 1971. And it’s wrong, wrong, very wrong! In this article I’m going to explain why […]
So, you’re at the water cooler hanging out with your work colleague, and the topic of global warming comes up. The two of you are getting an urge to make a friendly bet with each other, but you can’t decide what to bet on. Betting on the end of the world means placing an Over/Under bet on some statistic having […]
*Note. This essay was written by GPT o1, with the help of Ruben Schaer based on the prompt: “Write a dystopian essay predicting events in 2025 using this list as a guideline for your predictions: https://climatecasino.net/2021/10/top-40-impacts-of-climate-change/“ I edited the text in parts, removed several referenced to ‘hope’ and changed 2025 to 2035, because, well, things are just not as bad […]
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