April 8 quote by Naomi Klein does it for me. .. bit by bit, hour by hour, day by day,…
Doom
Doom Quotes: April, 2025 Edition
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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 sustain human life.”
Half-Earth, Our Planet’s Fight for Life, Edward O. Wilson
April 29, 2025
“Runaway global warming (and other toxic effects of this culture) could easily lead to billions of human deaths, and indeed the murder of the oceans, and even more, the effective destruction of this planet’s capacity to support life.”
Deep Green Resistance, McBay, Keith, Jensen
April 28, 2025
“Capitalism can no more be persuaded to limit growth than a human being can be persuaded to stop breathing. Attempts to green capitalism, to make it ecological, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.”
Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future, Murray Bookchin
April 27, 2025
“If you’re younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth—massive crop failures, apocalyptic fires, imploding economies, epic flooding, hundreds of millions of refugees…”
What if We Stopped Pretending, Jonathan Franzen
April 26, 2025
“The oceans are acidifying at a rate not seen in 300 million years, threatening marine ecosystems that feed billions. If we lose the oceans, we lose the foundation of life on Earth, and no amount of adaptation will save us from that collapse.”
What if We Get it Right?, Alyana Elizabeth Johnson
April 25, 2025
“The bees were gone, the fields barren, and the world starved, not in one great catastrophe but in the slow, silent collapse of everything we took for granted.”
The History of Bees, Maja Lunde
April 24, 2025
“The solar dimming wasn’t our fault, but it’s our problem. Crops failing, cities freezing, billions dying—it’s the end of the world, slow and cold. We thought we could science our way out, but the universe doesn’t care about our cleverness.”
Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
April 23, 2025
“The Planet drifts to random insect doom. The junk universe is a place of no return, a black hole of addiction and control, where the human form is shredded into a million fragments, each one crawling toward its own annihilation.”
Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
April 22, 2025
“Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migration, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion.”
April 21, 2025
“Think about that for a moment. We’re experiencing, in our lifetimes, a heating episode that is probably unique in the last 4.6 billion years.”
I’m a climate scientist. If you knew what I know, you’d be terrified too, Bill McGuire
April 21, 2025 (Bonus)
“As long as humanity is motivated by profit, we are on a path of no return from an Earth so devastated, so unrecognisable, violent and unsurvivable that the average person struggles to even imagine.”
The Meta Terror State, George Tsakraklides
April 20, 2025
“The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.”
An Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus
April 19, 2025
“And so it is that, as the last generation of mankind dwindles, we sit in our decaying cities, hoarding our petty treasures, waiting for an end which will not come with a bang, but with a whimper.”
The Children of Men, P.D. James
April 18, 2025
“The world after the end was so quiet you could hear the wind moving over the land, hear the blood in your own veins. That’s what I remember most: the silence.”
The Dog Stars, Peter Heller
April 17, 2025
“We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, and it is happening because of us. The forests are burning, the oceans are dying, and the Arctic is melting, and still we act as if we have all the time in the world…”
Our House is on Fire, Greta Thunberg et. al.
April 16, 2025
“All progress in capitalistic agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the labourer, but of robbing the soil; all progress in increasing the fertility of the soil for a given time, is a progress towards ruining the lasting sources of that fertility.”
Capital, Volume One: A Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx
April 15, 2025
“Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means—all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.”
A Language Older than Words, Derrick Jensen
April 14, 2025
“The world was drowning in its own excess, and still they burned the fuel, still they fought for the scraps. The storms came, the seas rose, and the people turned on each other, carving out their misery in blood. There was no future here, only a long, ugly end.”
American War, a Novel, Omar El Akkad
April 13, 2025
“The loss of Arctic sea ice is not just a regional problem; it’s a global catastrophe in the making. We’re looking at a situation where the feedback loops could accelerate warming to a point where large parts of the planet become uninhabitable for humans.”
Farewell to Ice, Peter Wadhams
April 12, 2025
“The heatwave was a killer, a silent slaughterer. It wasn’t just the temperature, it was the humidity, the wet bulb effect that turned cities into saunas you couldn’t escape.”
The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson
April 11, 2025
“The world hasn’t ended, but the world as we know it has—even if we don’t quite know it yet. We’re like the guy who’s already walked off the cliff and hasn’t looked down.”
eaarth, Bill McKibben
April 10, 2025
“We are racing toward a precipice, blind to the abyss below, where the collapse of ecosystems and the exhaustion of resources will render our cities tombs and our fields barren, a self-inflicted apocalypse unfolding in real time.”
The World Without Us, Alan Weisman
April 9, 2025
“As temperatures climb and resources dwindle, we’re looking at a cascade of failures—energy grids overloaded by heat, agriculture crippled by drought, economies shattered by displacement—that could bring the whole edifice down…”
How Everything Can Coppalse: A Manual for our Times, Pablo Servigne, Raphael Stevens
April 8, 2025
“All we have to do is keep on denying how frightened we actually are. And then, bit by bit, we will have arrived at the place we most fear, the thing from which we have been averting our eyes. No additional effort required.”
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, Naomi Klein
April 7, 2025
“If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.”
When Will the Planet Be Too Hot for Humans?, David Wallace-Wells
April 6, 2025
“If we burn all reserves of oil, gas, and coal, there is a substantial chance we will initiate the runaway greenhouse. If we also burn the tar sands and tar shale, I believe the Venus syndrome is a dead certainty.”
Storms of My Grandchildren, James Hansen
April 5, 2025
“Humanity’s epitaph was written in the rust of abandoned towers and the bones of those who thought they could outrun the inevitable, a testament to our arrogance etched into a planet that no longer cared to remember us.”
The Blacktongue Thief, Christopher Buehlman
April 4, 2025
“there is a very big risk that we will just end our civilisation. The human species will survive somehow but we will destroy almost everything we have built up over the last two thousand years.”
Collapse of Civilisation is the Most Likely Outcome, Asher Moses
April 3, 2025
“We’re not just facing climate change; we’re facing the end of the fucking world as we know it. The permafrost is thawing, methane is belching out, and we’re on a runaway train to a hothouse Earth where human survival becomes a sick joke…”
Being the Change, Peter Kalmus
April 2, 2025
“Well, maybe the destruction of the entire planet isn’t supposed to be fun. Maybe it’s supposed to be terrifying and unsettling. And you should stay up all night, every night crying, when we’re all 100% for sure going to fucking die!”
Don’t Look Up (2021)
April 1, 2025
“About 80% of the world’s population will be wiped out by 2100… This is the real thing.”
The Revenge of Gaia, James Lovelock
April 8 quote by Naomi Klein does it for me. .. bit by bit, hour by hour, day by day, we will get there because too many will not react in time. 99% of people are not anywhere near limber enough to even kiss their own ass goodbye. Mother Nature will gladly apply a global ass-kicking we richly deserve for being so stupid a specie.
Bob Shaw Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?