climate change – Another End of the World is Possible

Collapse 101, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Kali Yuga

I’m sorry to say that I have some bad news for you: Civilization is collapsing.

Hospice for the Human Species

Rather than focusing on trying to save our lives or save civilization or save what we have currently, Post-Doomers ask “How can we live with this awareness of the end of the world, meaningfully and productively, in community with each other and with the planet?”

The Gospel of Compost

What composting has taught me about the messiness of life and the sacredness of endings and how the “gospel of compost” has helped me to face the inevitability of environmental and social collapse and even possible human extinction.

Voting Like It’s the End of the World: 5 Reasons I’m Not Voting for Biden (or Trump)

This is going to be an unpopular post. A few weeks ago, I announced on social media that I would not be voting for Biden and would instead be voting for the Green Party candidates, Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker. What followed was a firestorm of fury from my progressive friends and acquaintances. The responsesContinue reading “Voting Like It’s the End of the World: 5 Reasons I’m Not Voting for Biden (or Trump)”

What Jeff Gibbs Should Have Said in ‘Planet of the Humans’

Solving climate change alone will not save us—especially when the so-called solutions involve ramping up technologies that are decimating the biosphere. Nothing can make a difference unless we find a way to end our fatal addiction to economic growth.

“Making Peace With Extinction” by Dayan Martinez

As news of the climate crisis and mass extinction currently underway underscore the gravity of the moment, it is natural to turn toward despair and defeat. However, taking a deep-history perspective, which includes five other mass extinctions and re-frames our role and participation in worldwide ecosystems helps to move beyond grief. We enter a dynamic peace where our present blessings and future joys can dialog with the deep, ancestral history of extinction and apocalypse on Planet Earth, through our varied consciousness and experiences. We learn to speak with and through the pain of loss, and hopefully, to transmute this apocalyptic moment into a different tomorrow, beyond disaster.

Debate with a Technoptimist

After viewing Michael Moore’s latest film, “Planet of the Humans”, I got into some intense discussions with progressive friends who really disliked the movie as well as my promoting it online. One progressive friend, Mark Green, wrote a response, and there followed a back-and-forth series of posts between us, which I think was very illuminating.

Black Lives Matter … to the Planet

Whether it’s climate change or White supremacy, it’s not about changing one thing. It’s about changing everything, together.

Why I am not a “Doomer”

I’m not going to try to tell you where to focus your energy. But I will say this, if your choice is being motivated by a fear of despair, if you are fighting down a feeling of hopelessness, consider letting yourself feel it. Really feel it. Trust that there is wisdom in all of our feelings, even the dark ones, maybe especially the dark ones. And see where it takes you.

I Was a Coronavirus Denier.

I’m realizing that it’s one thing to believe that industrial civilization is on the decline. But it is another thing to recognize it happening in my own life. And it is another thing altogether to find the wisdom to live through it.