Guy McPherson's blog

Bring on the doomers

The twin sides of our fossil-fuel addiction -- energy decline and global climate change -- are the most important topics we can address as a species. The national conversation ignores or marginalizes these critical topics. On the rare occasion they inadvertently come up, we act like a roomful of eight-year-olds with plates full of peas and mashed potatoes, pushing the main course around without actually ingesting it, wishing for the distraction of dessert.

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My life in song

At some point, not so far away, nature becomes the ultimate authority. And that's when I'll stop fighting authority. At that point, I'll need a new theme song. Got any ideas?

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On being a doomer

I admit I'm a doomer. But I don't think that's a bad thing. To be a doomer is to recognize the tragedy of the human experience.

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