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The Bulletin: September 17-23, 2025
The Bulletin: September 17-23, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. How to think about the prospects of truly green growth | Aeon Essays UN Sessions on Solar Geoengineering Trigger Unease – Inside Climate News Book Review: Small is Beautiful – by Shane […]
The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025
The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. The Disruptor: William Rees Knows How to Save the World Slow down or die (degrowth, collapse, strategy) Collapse and the Consensus Trance What Happens After Humans Go Extinct How Water Shapes Our […]
The Bulletin: May 1-7, 2025
The Bulletin: May 1-7, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. A Key Longevity Antioxidant Is Fading From Our Food Supply The Limits of Business-as-Usual in AEO 2025 | Art Berman Complexity, Collapse, and the Lessons of Late Antiquity More Than 150 Nobel-Prize Winning Scientists […]
How Indonesia’s Toba Volcano Changed Human Evolution
How Indonesia’s Toba Volcano Changed Human Evolution The massive supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago has been blamed for nearly killing off our species. The emerging truth is much more interesting. A dramatic 2020 eruption of Kīlauea was nothing compared with Indonesia’s Toba supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago, the largest eruption of the past 2.5 million […]
Could climate change make humans go extinct?
Could climate change make humans go extinct? There’s good news and bad news. A digital illustration of someone watching a climate change simulation. (Image credit: boscorelli/Shutterstock.com) The impacts of climate change are here with soaring temperatures, stronger hurricanes, intensified floods and a longer and more severe wildfire season. Scientists warn that ignoring climate change will yield “untold suffering” for humanity. But if […]
Human extinction: Are we already too late?
Human extinction: Are we already too late? As I was reading Henry Gee’s “Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct,” I was reminded of an iconic scene from one of the many “Star Trek” movies. In “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” the ship’s captain, James Kirk, rushes to the engine room to discover that his friend Spock is […]
Extinction is Stalking Humanity
Extinction is Stalking Humanity I have previously written a summary of the interrelated psychological, sociological, political-economic, military, nuclear, ecological and climate threats to human survival on Earth which threaten human extinction by 2026. See ‘Human Extinction by 2026? A Last Ditch Strategy to Fight for Human Survival’. Rather than reiterate the evidence in the above article, […]
Human Extinction: An Idea Whose Time had to Come.
Human Extinction: An Idea Whose Time had to Come. A few years ago, a political movement that took the name of “extinction rebellion” would have been wholly unthinkable. On the other hand, after more than forty years of warnings on climate change and ecosystem collapse from the world’s best scientists, the message had to start […]
The Pros and Cons of Near Term Human Extinction
The Pros and Cons of Near Term Human Extinction Near term human extinction is not all bad. For one thing it’s absolutely free. No need to break the piggy bank. And the whole family can go. It’s gratis. Not only that, but you can even bring your pets. Cat, dog. parrot, termite you name it. […]
Extinction and Responsibility: Why Climate Disaster Might Heal Us Even As it Kills Us
Extinction and Responsibility: Why Climate Disaster Might Heal Us Even As it Kills Us If climate disaster has left us with no future do we still feel responsible to the earth that outlives us? Or do we say “who cares?” If we say “who cares?” then our sense of responsibility was never anything more than […]
The Extinction Survey
The Extinction Survey There is a survey currently running on the Doomstead Diner, which asks people to make specific, numerical estimates about the timing of human extinction. It is inspired by the work of Guy McPherson, who has amassed much scientific evidence that points to very major climate disruption occurring over the next 2-3 decades, […]
