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Thinking out loud about overshoot, doom, and the pointlessness of being. #collapse #overshoot #doom #nihilism

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2 years
Hello, my name is Ian, and I'm a doomer. It's been twenty-two years since I had my last hope. #collapse
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1 year
Oh look, India has prohibited ye export of non-basmati white rice with immediate effect, & India accounts for nigh more than 40% of world rice exports, which amounted to 55.4 million metric tons in 2022. #collapse
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Oh look, the world needs to produce 50-60% more food by 2050 so as to feed its growing population, but crop yields are projected to decline by between 3-12% as a result of global heating. #collapse
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“If you’re younger than 60, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilisation of life on Earth...If you’re under 30, you’re all but guaranteed to witness it." (Jonathan Franzen) #collapse
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2 years
Most of the people in my life talk about the future like it's still a thing. #collapse
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1 year
"Most "climate doomers" are actually 'collapse doomers', or realists who realise that this civilisation is over due to overshoot. It would be happening even if climate chaos didn't exist, as has happened to many civilisations before." (Mark Bevis) #collapse
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6 months
Personal doomer update: I'm stressed out of my fucking mind at the mo, and in truth I don't want to be here anymore. #collapse
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5 months
Daily doomer update: No one gives a fuck that we're fucked. #collapse
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4 months
A gentle reminder: The best time of your life is now because you're a collapse-aware doomer with front row seats to the end of the fucking world. #collapse
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11 months
Oh look, Silicon Valley elites have purchased $800m of land in Northern California & plan to build a utopian city, with thousands of new homes, a large solar energy farm, orchards with over a million new trees, and over 10,000 acres of new parks & open space. #collapse
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11 months
"We're deep into uncharted territory! A catastrophe of unimaginable proportions is unfolding! Life is disappearing from Earth and runaway heating could destroy all life on Earth!" (Sam Carana, 7 hrs ago) #collapse
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11 months
"This civilization is gone. This world is gone. It already ended for millions of people. Some of us just haven't felt it yet." (Jessica Wildfire) #collapse
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1 year
A personal doomer update: I'm going through a steep low at the mo, and I'm feeling real sad & angry. #collapse
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1 month
Oh look, Sicily is having to turn away tourists as brutal heatwaves have led to crops dying, farm animals facing slaughter and bed and breakfasts with no water, reports the Times. #collapse
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5 months
A gentle reminder: Nearly everything we do every day is a waste of time and energy. #collapse
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14 days
Oh look, it's that awkward part of collapse where homo colossus is still trying to ignore the fact that there are no flying insects flying fucking anywhere anymore. #collapse
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7 months
A gentle reminder: Doomerism is not an ideology of defeatism but rather the philosophy of being brave in defeat. #collapse
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1 year
"The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.” (Kurt Vonnegut) #collapse
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1 year
I know it seems really, really bad right now, but rest assured, it is actually really, really bad right now. #collapse
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8 months
Personal doomer update: I'm so tired of this fucking shit. #collapse
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1 month
Daily doomer update: I'll stop saying "We're fucking fucked" over and over again once I hear something that actually suggests we're not 100% completely fucked my friends. #collapse
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3 months
I'm the kind of doomer who was fired today because apparently I'm "not the right fit" for the organization. #FML #collapse
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2 years
How can people not see that the entire economy is structurally akin to a Ponzi scheme? #collapse
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1 month
Oh look, it's that awkward part of collapse where they know that we know that they know. #collapse
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1 year
"It’s extraordinary to realise that we are witnessing the great unravelling; the beginning of the end of things. I honestly never thought I’d live to see the start of what sometimes feels like the apocalypse." (Dr Joelle Gergis) #collapse
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11 months
A gentle reminder: Doomers don't promote climate inaction; we simply observe it. #collapse
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5 months
Oh look, Sicily has declared a state of emergency, with dozens of towns rationing water for agricultural and residential use & only making supplies available every other day. #collapse
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11 months
"We were born in the age of fucking around, but we will die in the age of finding out." () #collapse
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9 months
Daily doomer update: It's going to get worse before it doesn't get better. #collapse
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6 months
A gentle reminder: If we found a truly renewable energy source, we would in fact be more fucked, not less. #collapse
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4 months
Personal doomer update: I got the bullshit job. #collapse
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11 months
"Here’s the thing: climate change is not the only shadow darkening humanity’s doorstep. While you wouldn’t know it from the mainstream media, biodiversity loss arguably poses an equivalent existential threat to civilized existence." (William Rees) #collapse
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5 months
Oh look, it's that awkward part of collapse where everything is obviously fucked, but peeps still act like it's not. #collapse
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1 year
Oh look, we've entered the "anything can happen anywhere at any time" stage of collapse. #collapse
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5 months
Daily doomer update: The next few months will prove us right. #collapse
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A gentle reminder: Embracing each day as if it were your last doesn't mean going out and fucking everything up a little bit more while you still can. #collapse
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1 month
A gentle reminder: The global financial "system" will 100% crash and burn by 2030 at the very latest. #collapse
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6 months
A gentle reminder: Doomers don't want to steal your hope; they just want to remind you that physics will. #collapse
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11 months
It is so very alienating to be completely alone & yet unable to get away from people for one fucking minute. #collapse
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5 months
"My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died." (Ursula K. Le Guin) #collapse
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10 months
"Even some of the most outspoken climate scientists prefer to be vague, saying things like “our way of life is in danger” or “the future looks bleak.” It’s like they’re afraid to say what they really mean: People are going to starve to death." (Alan Urban) #collapse
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6 months
Oh look, a Creston Valley orchard in British Columbia has reported 100% bud mortality on its fruit trees, including peaches, apricots, prunes, plums, nectarines, & cherries. #collapse
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6 months
Daily doomer update: It really feels like something's just about to break. #collapse
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11 months
"Unfortunately, since the rate at which [emperor penguins'] environment is changing is faster than the rate at which they can adapt, we are likely to witness the demise of an extraordinary species that has graced Earth for millions of years." (Barbara Wienecke) #collapse
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"[Greenland is losing] 9 or 10 thousand tons [of ice] a second. And it's so much ice that the gravity is weakening over Greenland." (William Colgan, Geological Survey of Denmark in Greenland) #collapse
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6 months
A gentle reminder: Every country in the world is preparing for war at this time. #collapse
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A gentle reminder: Around 24 species of non-human earthling go extinct every day, and that's why I don't give a flying fiddler's fuck about each and every ill that befalls the human race. #collapse
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4 months
Personal doomer update: Of all the things I've loved and lost, I miss my respect for mankind the most. #collapse
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9 months
Personal doomer update: It's time to relocate to a quieter area before ye impending economic collapse. Laters, doomers. #collapse
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"The end of everything is no longer hyperbole. It is odds-on by 2050." (Prof Eliot Jacobson) #collapse
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Personal doomer update: For the last 2 days, I have this inescapable feeling that something very big is happening at the mo, and we're just not being told about it. #ShadowWar #ShadowBanks #collapse
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5 months
Oh look, a power station in the UK operated by Drax - the wood pellet company - generates 8% of the UK’s “renewable” electricity, but is also the single largest emitter of carbon dioxide. #collapse
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Personal doomer update: Apart from my doomer mate and my doomer dad, the Twitter doomers are the only peeps in my life who've taken me seriously during the last few fucking years. #CheersDoomers #collapse
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"Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum." (Kurt Vonnegut) #collapse
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“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.” (Noam Chomsky) #collapse
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Oh look, only 50 acres of Ireland's 21,000 acre potato crop has been planted owing to the never-ending rains. #collapse
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Daily doomer update: Collapse is not a spectacular event that suddenly happens but rather a ponderous counter-spectacle wherein things slowly stop happening like they did before. #collapse
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"We are well beyond a soft landing for the planet. There are no moderate pathways ahead. The only move we have left is radical acceptance of our situation, of the human predicament." (Art Berman) #collapse
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2 months
Daily doomer update: The fuckening is now quickening everywhere at an accelerating rate. #collapse
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11 months
"Basically, human optimism is a neurological bug that prevents us from remembering undesirable information about our odds of dying or being hurt. And that's why nobody ever believes the apocalypse is going to happen to them." (Annalee Newitz) #collapse
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A gentle reminder: Every baby born from this point on will 100% end up being a doomer. #collapse
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Personal doomer update: I quit my job yesterday and somewhat strangely the idea of free time nigh terrifies me. #collapse
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Oh look, it's that awkward part of collapse where anything could happen anywhere at any fucking time. #collapse
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“We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice. We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us. Or we can squander our 15 billion year heritage in meaningless self destruction." (Carl Sagan) #HadAChoice #collapse
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"If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?" (Derrick Jensen) #collapse
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A gentle reminder: The markets are not the economy but rather a chain of lucrative betting agencies where rich peeps can go & wager on the state of the actual economy. #collapse
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Oh look, a “Heat Dome” is set to engulf the UK & Europe in hours sending temperatures above 40C. #collapse
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"We do not need more warnings. The dystopian future is already here. We need urgent action now." (Volker Turk, United Nations Human Rights Council) #collapse
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“I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.” (Neil Gaiman) #collapse
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Oh look, it's that awkward part of collapse where if you know anything about system dynamics, you know exactly why we're fucked. #collapse
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A gentle reminder: Even if bird flu "finds a way" and wipes out 50% of the global population, we're still fucked. #collapse
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"We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should." (Kurt Vonnegut) #collapse
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Personal doomer update: This week has completely smashed me physically, mentally, emotionally, psychologically, and financially, but I'll still be standing here tomorrow because I'm a black hat doomer born to witness the end of the fucking world. #NightsDoomers #collapse
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"Contrary to common impressions, there has been no absolute worldwide decarbonization...We have not made the slightest progress." (Vaclav Smil) #collapse
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A gentle reminder: This civilizational collapse is set to be a wee bit different from the previous ones. #collapse
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Personal doomer update: I went to the old gothic graveyard in the centre of the hellscape I call home today, where I saw lots of gorgeous butterflies in the complete absence of normie filth, and wept in the failing July sunshine. #collapse
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“A few years ago we thought that they would last until about the end of this century, but now it looks like at the end of 2050, at the end of the first half of the century, there’ll be no glaciers in Austria anymore.” (Andrea Fischer) #collapse
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Oh look, Britain is considering importing electricity from the US by installing up to 6 power cables across the Atlantic, which would stretch roughly 3,500 miles across the ocean and reach depths of up to 11,000 feet. #GoodLuckWithThat #collapse
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Daily doomer update: We're all on the cusp of thermonuclear annihilation and everyone's still chill about it. #collapse
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"This year will go down in history as the moment when the public first started to become aware of their catastrophic mistakes." (Jessica Wildfire) #collapse
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7 months
Oh look, the beautiful people still have no idea they're all about to get fucking wrecked. #collapse
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"Even 30 years ago, it was very clear the world was going to hell in a handbasket. I’m 62 now and I’m actually really glad I did not have children.” (Prof Camille Parmesan) #collapse
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Oh look, it's that awkward part of collapse where anyone who knows anything knows that we're all completely fucked. #collapse
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"Strangers call us doomers and fearmongers. Our friends and family treat us like we’re paranoid. When we share dozens or even hundreds of studies, they refuse to look at them. They say, “I don’t want to read anything that’ll bring me down.” (Jessica Wildfire) #collapse
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“I don’t think it’s right to suggest that reaching 2C of warming (which now looks very likely) will mean a billion people dead.” (David Wallace-Wells) #GoodLuckWithThatDavid #collapse
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Daily doomer update: It's only just begun, but it's already nearly over. #collapse
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A gentle reminder: If peeps could actually see stuff through the perspective of deep time, they'd legit shit their pants. #collapse
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A gentle reminder: A time will come when no one’s left to move the doomsday clock to midnight. #collapse
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Another timely reminder: Nothing is ever going to be as good again as it is right now. #collapse
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"So get this: the world's coral reefs disappear at 1.5C. We are past 1.5C now and heading for 2C THEY ARE DONE." (Roger Hallam) #collapse
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“I can’t emphasize enough just how terrifying this moment is on our planet. With global temperature records breaking and fires and floods raging around the world, our house is truly on fire.” (Kristina Dahl, The Union of Concerned Scientists) #collapse
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Daily doomer update: It's all fun and games until peeps have no food and water. #collapse
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"In Manacapuru, a [Brazilian] town two hours' drive from the jungle city of Manaus, fish were jumping in an attempt to escape the scorching, shallow waters and the smell of the rotting animals in the brown water was suffocating." (Reuters) #collapse
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7 months
A gentle reminder: Doomers are still more interested in saving non-human species from man than they are in saving man from physics. #collapse
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11 months
"The fields where we planted our crops were all submerged. We can't plant again this year...The losses are incalculable. We have tens of thousands of acres of rice fields here." (Zhao Lijuan, rice farmer, Heilongjiang Province, China) #collapse
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Personal doomer update: I'd probably block me too. #collapse
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A gentle reminder: Collapse will not be televised. #collapse
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1 year
"We need to appreciate that if a societal panic is triggered, the pace at which confidence may collapse could be blistering given today’s technology tools paired with our extreme social interconnectedness." (Peter Atwater) #collapse
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"The #Thwaites tongue has imploded Yes ...it just happened Thank God , no one cares 🤡michael mann will blame it on Tonga🤣" (Christopher Cartwright) #collapse
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Daily doomer update: The fuckening is still quickening a lot faster than expected. #collapse
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