Category Archives: Doom

When Gaia Met Theia: The Blobs Remember

Posted on 8 January, 2020 by

Garnero speculates, the dense, distinct piles might even be fragments of Theia itself, forever interred in the deep Earth. __ Quanta Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, when Earth and the solar system were very young, a giant Mars-sized planet is … Continue reading →

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Are We Dead and Just Don’t Know It?

Posted on 1 January, 2020 by

Forever Doomed In 1988, famed climatologist James Hansen predicted that much of Manhattan would stay permanently underwater sometime between 2008 and 2018. In 1989, a senior UN environmental official declared that entire nations would be inundated by rising sea levels … Continue reading →

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Things are Getting Less Expensive

Posted on 20 December, 2019 by

Consider the modern television set: The last TV I bought was a 43-inch smart TV that cost me roughly $500 in 2016; it’s no longer in my possession, but my old roommate is still using it to his great joy. … Continue reading →

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Without Fossil Fuels Modern Civilisation is Impossible

Posted on 4 October, 2019 by

80% of Energy Comes from Fossil Fuels With over 80% of energy consumption coming from fossil fuels, pretty much everything we have in our economy today is available thanks to fossil fuels. We wouldn’t have today’s homes, schools or grocery … Continue reading →

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Famine, Pestilence, War, Death: Shorter Growing Seasons

Posted on 9 December, 2018 by

Famine and pestilence go hand in hand, and the threat of famine can trigger war. Death on a large scale usually follows. Warm Weather: Longer Growing Seasons Ever since the “Little Ice Age,” the Earth has experienced a warming trend, … Continue reading →

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Coal is Just Getting its “Second Wind”

Posted on 4 December, 2018 by

Coal Power Plants Expand Globally … In 2017, after two years of declines, International Energy Agency figures showed global coal demand rising to 5.357 million tonnes of coal equivalent (TCE). __ Coal is King of the World China is building … Continue reading →

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Good News, Bad News

Posted on 15 October, 2018 by

Good News: World Keeps Not Ending According to the loudest prognosticators of the past few centuries, the world should not exist. Our ancestors should have died in uncounted fiery religious conflagrations. The planet should have been destroyed by nuclear apocalypse, … Continue reading →

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The Coming Doom of the “Y” Chromosome and Human Males

Posted on 3 June, 2018 by

Although the Y chromosome’s role in sex determination is clear, research has shown that it is undergoing rapid evolutionary deterioration. Many generations ago the Y chromosome was large, and contained as many genes as the X chromosome. Now it is … Continue reading →

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Donald Trump: Alone Against the Apocalypse?

Posted on 13 May, 2018 by

Fighting Chaos with Chaos? Trump as “Chaos-Master” Faces Down Forces of Doom From its start, the Trump administration has been plagued by charges of “chaos.” From the revolving door of senior staffers — including two secretaries of state, three national … Continue reading →

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Unrepentant Failed Doomer Paul Ehrlich After 50 Years: Still Predicting Total Collapse of Civilisation “Any Day Now”

Posted on 25 April, 2018 by

Stanford biologist Paul R. Ehrlich published the book of doom “The Population Bomb” 50 years ago, with his wife. According to Ehrlich, catastrophic global collapse was inevitable by the 1970s — or the 1980s at the latest. Ehrlich has managed … Continue reading →

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Why is Latin America So Violent?

Posted on 24 March, 2018 by

Top 10 National Homicide Rates per Million Persons It is important to look at national homicides both as a rate — see above — and in total — see below. By either measure, Latin American nations have significant representation in … Continue reading →

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What Breed of Human Can Survive in the Future Commons?

Posted on 25 December, 2017 by

In the Future: Death from the Commons Today we can safely travel around the world, by air, sea, rail, and highway. We can breathe the common air, eat the common food, and often drink the common drinks, taking only the … Continue reading →

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Climate Apocalypse Cult Built on Faulty Models

Posted on 16 March, 2017 by

Why Climate Change Models So Badly Flawed Climate is shaped by hundreds of factors, most of which scientists do not understand with any precision. In other words, most of the meaningful variables that contribute to the Earth’s chaotic climate cannot … Continue reading →

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Will China Pass on World War III and Stand Aside?

Posted on 31 October, 2016 by

China will lend “moral support” to Putin in his war of words against the west. China does not want to see a nuclear war destroy the global economy which China is so deeply invested in. But if it comes to … Continue reading →

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MegaCities of the Coming Anarchy

Posted on 19 October, 2016 by

What Would a Preview of Tomorrow’s World Look Like? It will be a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes — brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers. __ … Continue reading →

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Green Billionaires Threaten Foundation of Modern Societies

Posted on 7 August, 2016 by

Warren Buffet, billionaire and major investor in wind energy, has admitted that wind isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. “The only reason to build them [wind farms]” is the subsidies; “They don’t make sense without” them. … As … Continue reading →

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Can These Worms Save the Human Race from Extinction?

Posted on 22 July, 2016 by

We Have Not Confronted a Virus that Constitutes an Existential Threat to the Species — Yet But eventually, we are likely to meet an emerging virus that comes close. The Zika virus, for example, is certainly not an existential threat … Continue reading →

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Nightmare on Your Street: Could You Survive the Loss of the Power Grid?

Posted on 31 May, 2016 by

The Power Grid Has Gone Down and Will Not Come Back Up: What Do You Do? Stores are closed. Cell service is failing. Broadband Internet is gone. Hospitals are operating on generators, but rapidly running out of fuel. Garbage is … Continue reading →

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A Sense of Security is the Beginning of Disaster

Posted on 5 May, 2016 by

Humans crave security. They will go to great lengths in an attempt to make themselves feel safe and secure. Unfortunately, there is no limit to potential risks. The ones we focus on are often the least likely to do us … Continue reading →

Posted in Doom, Environment, Everything You Think You Know Just Ain't So, Folly of Prediction, Groupthink, Peak Oil, Rebuilding Civilisation, Survival Prepping | Tagged , | 3 Comments

Why Won’t the Bitch Just Die?

Posted on 18 January, 2016 by

Western Civilisation Shows a Marked Reticence to Roll Over and Die Doomers are a dime a dozen. According to such doomers as Ehrlich, Orlov, Kuntsler, Cobb, etc. the nations of the west should have dropped dead long ago from one … Continue reading →

Posted in Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Disruptive Technologies, Doom, Government, Peter Zeihan | Tagged , | 5 Comments

Zombie Survival Camps and Retreats: Be Prepared

Posted on 12 November, 2015 by

To survive, it is often necessary to fight. And to fight you have to dirty yourself. __ George Orwell Zombies? You’re Soaking In Them! You may believe that zombies are the stuff of myth and folklore. Sadly, that is not … Continue reading →

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Malthusian Monkeys Screech of Doom

Posted on 3 October, 2015 by

Update: New steel alloy has strength to weight ratio of titanium at one tenth the cost (Nature Abstract) When Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, and John Harte wagered Julian Simon $10,000 that the cost of commodities and natural resources would always … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate, Creativity, Doom, Fertility, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Materials, Natural Resources, Ocean, Optimism, Peak Oil, Science, Technology | Tagged , , | 5 Comments

How to Eat Well During Ice Ages, Nuclear Winters, and Other Global Disasters

Posted on 2 October, 2015 by

The World Just Ended: Whatever Are You Going to Cook for Dinner Tonight? No more Chinese takeout. No pizza delivery. No Mexican drive thru. And forget about sit-down restaurants! The world as you know it is gone. If you want … Continue reading →

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China’s Grand Medley of Pending Calamities

Posted on 28 September, 2015 by

Is it All Just Bad Luck? China is riding several turbulent waves of potential disaster, hoping that it can leverage an “appearance of strength and stability” into a position of relative strength in the aftermath of what is coming. Look … Continue reading →

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Why are Climate Models so Estranged from Reality

Posted on 19 September, 2015 by

Update: Blockbuster report on how temperature data has been altered to create a faked warming trend. What if it has all been one big lie? Why do climate models predict apocalyptic levels of warming that do not match up with … Continue reading →

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