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Doom Quotes: January, 2025 Edition
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 stop sniffing glue.”
January 29, 2025
“The future of many species will be determined by man’s decisions in the next few decades, with the potential for mass extinctions looming.”
The Sinking Ark, Normal Myers
January 28, 2025
“The heat will kill millions, and the survivors will face a world where the very air is a threat.”
The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson
January 27, 2025
“By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.”
The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warming, James Lovelock
January 26, 2025
“Extinction-level dangers now face multiple species, including humans and vanishing iconic animal species, as a result of climate change.”
This is the Way the World Ends, Jeff Nesbit
January 25, 2025
“Beyond destabilizing the climate, humans are unraveling the web of life on Earth; we are the asteroid currently set on a collision course.”
Under the Sky We Make, Kimberly Nicholas, PhD
January 24, 2025
“This way of living cannot last. And when it is over it would be far better that there be more of the world left rather than less … What we do now determines what life is like–or, indeed, whether it exists at all–for those humans and non-humans who come after us.”
Bright Green Lies, Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert
January 23, 2025
“The problem is that nature, the independent force that has surrounded us since our earliest days, cannot coexist with our numbers and our habits.”
The End of Nature, Bill McKibben
January 22, 2025
“So, yes, we can wreck the Earth as we’ve known it, killing vast numbers of ourselves and wiping out entire swaths of other life–in fact, as we’ve seen, we’re doing that right now.”
Falter, Bill McKibben
January 21, 2025
No doom quote.
January 20, 2025
“Then, in the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2041, unprecedented heat waves scorched the planet, destroying food crops around the globe. Panic ensued, with food riots in virtually every major city.”
The Collapse of Western Civilization, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
January 19, 2025
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
January 18, 2025
“Everyone knew — and we all still know. We know that the transformations of our planet, which will come gradually and suddenly, will reconfigure the political world order.”
Losing Earth, Nathaniel Rich
January 17, 2025
No doom quote.
January 16, 2025
“It seems a great many of us can get used to almost anything, even the steady annihilation of our own habitat.”
On Fire, Naomi Klein
January 15, 2025
“To care about the climate crisis is to be in a steady state of managing grief and pain.”
Not Too Late, Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young Lutunatabua
January 14, 2025
“Catastrophic blazes have spanned the planet from Australia to the Arctic, and wildfires have torched large swaths of the western U.S., all fulfilling forecasts much faster than scientists had predicted. It’s as if the wildfires of 2050 are already here.”
The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells
January 13, 2025
“The timing is just, it’s atrocious. OK, at this very moment, I say we sit tight and assess.”
Don’t Look Up (2021), President Orlean
January 12, 2025
“This is it. We might have just set off a chain reaction that could shut down the North Atlantic Current.”
January 11, 2025
“We are living in a world locked into a suicide pact, with deeply entrenched ways of thinking about energy and security which are designed, unwittingly, to keep us on course for disaster.”
5000 Days to Save the Planet, Edward Goldsmith
January 10, 2025
“When collapse ratches up a few notches
And clobbers us square in the crotches,
Thought I’m going down too,
The idea might come through:
Who’s crazy now, beotches?”
Limericks of Doom II, Benjamin the Donkey
January 9, 2025
“There is simply no way to square a belief system that vilifies collective action and venerates total market freedom with a problem that demands collective action on an unprecedented scale …”
On Fire, Naomi Klein
January 8, 2025
“California is built to burn and occasionally to burn explosively…”
The Pyrocene, Stephen J. Pyne
January 1-7, 2025
No doom quotes. Took a break for the new year.
Eliot Jacobson, Ph.D.
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