Michael Dowd invited us, at the end of the world, to love the world.
A conversation with Michael Dowd
Following the recent death of Michael Dowd, I’ve been reviewing some of his Post-Doom conversations, including his conversation with me from three years ago. Watching it again felt like I was talking to Michael again in the present. It feels as relevant now as ever.
It’s Not Too Late to Love the World: In memoriam Michael Dowd
While a lot of people listening to Michael’s talks might get stuck on the part about how it’s too late to save the world, that part was really just the preface to his real message, which was that it's not too late to love the world.
Michael Dowd on Death
Everything we value is possible only because of death. We can no longer afford to remain ignorant of it; the cost is too high. Death is no less sacred than life.
I’m thinking about the Roman Empire, too.
What appeals to men about the Roman Empire? Patriarchy, militarism, colonialism, authoritarianism--in a word, hierarchy.
“The revolution will be quiet, slow”
The revolution is abandonment Wildflowers overtaking Derelict parking lots
What Are You Doing With Your Collapse Awareness?
I posted this question on Facebook recently and got back some great answers. Here's a few ...
Don’t fix the wound
by Chelan Harkin
Re-Placing Ourselves
The reason we are increasingly disconnected is because we are losing the places where we connect. Real places. Places with history. Places that bound up in a network of relationships. And if we are ever to find one another again, we have to find those places again.
How Transphobia Leads to Fascism
As the living systems of the planet buckle under the demands of industrial capitalism's final phase, a full-throated fascism coheres around culture war anxieties and proposes genocidal exterminationist solutions. Anti-trans rhetoric and legislation is part of this trajectory.
Another End of the World is Possible 