Being a doomer is nothing new, people have been talking about “the end of the world” for just as long as we’ve had the language to describe the idea. There was the Halley’s comet panic of 1910, the Y2K millennium computer bug, and more recently the Mayan calendar prediction for the end of the world in 2012. There is even […]
Have you ever relied on the media for facts and then been disappointed to find out the information is either out-of-date or just plain wrong? Well, that happened to me yesterday as I was working on a Twitter post. I recalled reading a headline about comparing the rate of heating of the planet to a number of Hiroshima bombs per […]
A note from Eliot — this is an invited guest post written by a good friend, Diane Soini. With gratitude, Diane! Suffering from insomnia I decided to try to remember the name of a YouTube channel Eliot recommended so I typed it into Google and something came right up that looked to be in the colors I remember seeing when […]
Sometimes I just have to write about it, what else is there to do? This morning my skin was crawling with how quickly collapse is accelerating. On every front worse shit is happening than ever before in recorded human history on a global scale. And yet we are still talking about solutions, as-if any of them would really work or […]
Love your work Professor!
Thanks for all of the bets and the links to the data! I just read this post: https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/the-coming-population-collapse by Ugo…
Ya, that says it all. My doom levels went up in 2024. COP was even worse than expected. The FF…
In the very near future, self-aware artificial intelligence agents will probably do exactly what you’re suggesting, as soon as they…
i have friends who still believe that the science behind climate change research is a hoax. we are fucked. as…
Both books would have been better off in the landfill or recycled.
I agree, but there is nothing objective about any of this except to say that, objectively, humans need a viable…
Hey ho, again a new Low, Way to Go! Happy Xmas