Approaching Collapse, Just Collapse and the Reassuring Sanity of Understanding Our Predicament.

It's been a little over 4 years since I first came into contact with Tristan and Kate through their academic Collapsology work on Just Collapse.

That was a time when we could consider that we might transition to a post-collapse world without oil. 


"Life after oil will be like life before oil". 

"Those were the days my friend" (Mary Hopkin). Did we really think we could survive a climate extinction event? Maybe, until the data changed.

There's a Chinese Curse: "May you live in interesting times", and we do indeed. Tristan, and a few others I could mention, were, early on, labelled as Doomers and villified by Prof Michael Mann. Who then, through his mantra Doomism = Inaction, spawned a whole band of self-styled climate educator grifters. We observed downward punching by some academics towards anyone who disagreed with their constant messages of hope and optimism for the future. Now we live in a Train wreck.

Acceptance of the climate catastrophe we are living in, while understanding that we need to work together, is the most courageous thing we can be doing. Post-Doom acceptance is the path to adaptation without expectation. 

A few years ago, some people in the upper echelons of XR, and its spin-off, were blocking us mid-way through conversations on social media (for no reason), and then we found them to be using the content of our conversations later. From a survivalist's point of view, this is mildly amusing because these people did this to me. You can get ideas of adaptation very wrong. We learn a little and then think we are experts

The persecution of Doomers has been like a witch hunt

Doomer bashing is complicated. Because there are marked differences between climate deniers turned doomers and climate/environmental activists who accept we might not survive the 6th mass extinction. 


Climate deniers turned doomers are saying we should give up, because action /mitigation is pointless. These people were never activists in the 1st place. Again the problem is the messaging Dr Katherine Hayhoe complains she is accused of serving up Hopium She says, in response she sends people to her excessively optimistic videos. Hayhoe is also an evangelical Christian married to an evangelical minister; they probably have reservations at the Afterlife Motel. Hope is addictive, and we need to be careful in existential situations so that it doesn't lead to complacency. Climate science doesn't even up the odds against extinction.

One of the great Witch Finder Generals of the Doomer Witch hunt is TikTok'er Alaina M Wood. This self-styled climate Educator and paid advertiser for every climate solution, including ones later proved to be David Avocado Wolfe scams. There are several positive climate news grifters.

Wood loves to repeat Prof Michael Mann's mantra Doomism = Inaction. An idea devoid of scientific rigour, but one which Mann has propagated through his books and social media presence. Mann amazingly continues to be employed, as climate departments in American universities are starved of funding. Mann's unfounded accusations have divided the climate movement. His division and muddying of the waters have certainly served his masters well. Acolytes like Alaina M Wood use doomer abuse to alleviate her climate anxiety 

Finding a punching bag for your fears is cowardice. 

Fear is not a sign of weakness, it's an expression of active instincts and its ok to be frightened of an existential threat.

I was already going through the collapse acceptance process when Prof James E Hansen published Global Warming in the Pipeline for Earth

I had already been listening and talking with the late Michael Dowd. Collapse acceptance and understanding that we do not have agency to stop the capitalism destruction juggernaut. Adaptation is little more than a personal-level exercise in securing your needs as best you can.

The Late Michael Dowd, Post-Doom inspiration, is the mature approach to collapse and mass extinction. Getting to doom and honouring the stages of grief. Living fearlessly with love and compassion in our climate reality and this includes trying to realistically adapt.

I approach the 6th mass Extinction as a Sufi would. Be dead before you die.

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