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Doom Quotes: February, 2025 Edition
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 tombs, the rivers were sludge, and the survivors were just ghosts waiting to die.”
February 27, 2025
“What we’re doing to the atmosphere is turning the skies into a guillotine blade dropping slowly toward our necks.”
Storms of my Grandchildren, James Hansen
February 26, 2025
“Listen, and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.”
February 25, 2025
“People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”
Greta Thunberg, 2019
February 23, 24, 2025
No doom quote
February 22, 2025
“All over the world, it seemed, the final retreat was now in progress … The equilibrium of the biosphere had been irrevocably upset, and the rising waters and temperatures were only the outward signs of a deeper malaise.”
The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard
February 21, 2025
“Same as yesterday. Hot, stinking air. You can’t breathe it without a mask half the time. The greenhouse effect—they said it’d happen, and it did. The oceans are dying, the air’s rotten, the water’s poisonous, and there’s no place left to grow food.”
February 20, 2025
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.”
1984, George Orwell
February 19, 2025
“…the truth is, I think this whole administration has completely lost their fucking mind! And I think we’re all gonna die!”
February 17, 18, 2025
No doom quote
February 16, 2025
Main doom quote:
“We are watching the end of the world as we know it, and we are the ones doing the watching.”
The End of Ice, Dahr Jamail
Bonus doom quote:
“It is conceivable that the level of shock required to get us to an AnthroShift will involve sections of the world becoming uninhabitable, leading to mass migration as well as pain, suffering, and death around the world.”
Saving Ourselves, Dana R. Fisher
February 15, 2025
“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.”
–Søren Kierkegaard
February 12, 13, 14, 2025
No doom quote
February 11, 2025
“We are running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.”
Elon Musk speech at Paris-Sorbonne University, December 2, 2015
February 10, 2025
“We are sleepwalking towards a world where the climate will kill millions, and the only question is whether we wake up in time to stop it.”
Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era, Jeremy Leggett
February 9, 2025
“Aren’t we all guilty, in one way or another, of sleepwalking toward apocalypse?”
On Fire, Naomi Klein
February 8, 2025
No doom quote
February 7, 2025
“By 2050 the sea will rise by 2 to 3 feet. Wealthy coastal cities will fight the rising water with dykes and levees; others will lose their underground infrastructure and face building collapse.”
The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps, Peter D. Ward
February 4, 5, 6, 2025
No doom quote
February 3, 2025
“The ‘U.S. National Stability Protection Act of 2025’ led to the conviction and imporisonment of more than three hundred scientists for ‘endangering the safety and well-being of the general public with unduly alarming threats.'”
The Collapse of Western Civilization, Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway
February 2, 2025
February 1, 2025
“I could never have imagined things unraveling more abruptly than they have since the hardcover of this book was published in January, 2019.”
The End of Ice, Dahr Jamail
Eliot Jacobson, Ph.D.
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