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Audaciously Evidentiary
This culture is characterized by savagery just as clearly, for those few willing to see, as the culture is exemplified by widespread acceptance of insufficient evidence. The savagery resulting from purposeful lies recently has affected me on a personal level. As a result, it has impacted my ongoing work as a professional (albeit unpaid).
I’ve posted two previous essays in this space on the topic of the recent betrayals against me: “The Art of Betrayal” and “All’s Fair … ?”. Some readers have sought additional evidence of illegal activity, either because they are critical thinkers or because they are too stupid to connect a few dots. I respond below with embedded PDF versions of the letters sent to some offenders, as well as additional information. I’m avoiding redundancy by excluding letters to some of the guilty parties, all of whom refuse to engage with me and also with relevant evidence. They would clearly rather see me murdered than themselves engage with facts. The list of liars and lawbreakers so far includes Serena Marie Raphael McPherson (no known relation), Carolyn Baker, Derrick Jensen, Albert Bates, Michael Jon Sliwa, medical doctor (sans Ph.D.) Peter Carter, Cory Morningstar, Luke Orsborne, Forrest Palmer, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert, Nicole Foss, Keith Harmon Snow, Alex Smith, Thom Hartmann, John Michael Greer, Charles Eisenstein, Nafeez Ahmad, Nate Hagens, and doubtless many others who have adopted and promulgated nonsensical, evidence-free writings as factual.
Before they began lying about me, I had positive experiences with some of these people. Derrick Jensen wrote the following: “Guy McPherson’s work is a gift to the world. I wish all writers were as smart and as honest.” At her request, I co-authored a book with Carolyn Baker.
How far will these people go on the path to character assassination? This morning I learned Keith Harmon Snow accused a woman I have never met of having an affair with me. Apparently Snow, who claims to be a journalist, knows more about us than we do. Or maybe he is just another patriarchal liar in a society characterized by lies. Will there be consequences for the lies of these people? We shall see.
On 9 September 2017 Keith Harmon Snow wrote me the following via email. Apparently, my evidence-rich response was insufficient, as he quickly sided with the liars:
When you visited my area in western mass (sic) a few years ago I was already pretty much on the same page about the imminent collapse. Well, with these storms bearing down on the US, and all that suggests, and all the other evidence, it’s not looking very pretty.
I’m writing to ask if you would like to offer your side of the story as regards what someone showed me posted in the “Statement” about you on the blog or web site Wrong Kind of Green.
I am accused, by these liars and their fans, of hypocrisy for seeking justice in an unjust world approaching the end of habitat for humans. I’m reminded of thoughts expressed by Thomas Aquinas: “He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.”
I am by no means suggesting anybody on the list of liars is moral. Each of them gave up on justice the instant they put fingers to keyboard after knowing the facts in this case. If they’re not being paid to defame me, then they are wasting a prime opportunity.
If any of the guilty parties had evidence–and they clearly do not–you and I would know about it. My requests for evidence have been met with false stories supported by private messages Serena created (Serena’s favorite approach), in a perfect example of utterly classless behavior from deplorable people who counter the evidence I present with a smear campaign. I would be disgusted were it not for my experience with them, which has caused my disgust to be eclipsed by pity, sadness, and amusement as they thrash aimlessly within their existential and intellectual vacuums. Let’s peer into the evidence, beginning with a letter from Serena to me. Below the letter, I demonstrate how easy it is to create Facebook chats out of thin air, as has been done by Serena or somebody working on her behalf.
As expected, serial misanthropic liar Michael Jon Sliwa remains the worst of the horrible lot as he continues to spread information he knows to be false while dragging my ex-wife’s name into the mess he helped create. Sliwa accepted and promulgated a skillfully created document from Serena as if it were factual even after he knew it misrepresented the facts. He lied, knowing he lied. There is no doubt.
The extent of this defamation campaign is impressive. An Australian climate scientist flew across the Tasman Sea to meet me during my 2014 speaking tour in New Zealand. When she returned home, she began speaking about the evidence underlying abrupt climate change. She was immediately fired by CSIRO. I heard from her 6 September 2017. She indicated that the Australian government was gleeful about the recent evidence-free character assassination, and would be using it to terminate my scheduled tour. Mission accomplished.
On 19 December 2016, shortly after I completed a speaking tour in New Zealand, my friend and host Kevin Hester received an email message from a contracted member of the surveillance/security apparatus in the United States: “THANK you for hosting Guy McPherson I’m afraid the NSA is about to get much tougher on him and a list of others as Trump & Rex Tillerson have asked for specifics. Sorry. I’m only the messenger.”
Long before I met the Australian climate scientist, while I was living off-grid in rural New Mexico, a major radio personality contacted me via email from his station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He wanted to broadcast my message frequently on his daily radio show. Four days later, he sent a follow-up email message indicating that he received a horrifying message. He indicated I would never hear from him again, and that he no longer had any interest in my work. As he promised, I never heard from him again.
An additional story comes from my time in New Mexico. A man saw my presentation in Michigan and then invited my tour host and me to lunch. A subsequent flight to Canada had him detained and interrogated for an hour. He saw the contents of his laptop computer being downloaded as he was repeatedly asked a single question: “What is your relationship with Guy McPherson?”
How effective has this coordinated defamation campaign been, so far? My ex-partner of more than 35 years believes every word. Having no reason to doubt me, she bought into the series of lies from the time she read the first invented Facebook message.
Consistent with Clifford’s comment from 1884, I continue to pursue justice in this case in the ongoing defamation campaign against me. The 4 December 2020 death of my friend and renowned attorney Gerald Maples after he, “slipped on a dock” in The Bahamas greatly reduces my chances of succeeding. Other attorneys in his law firm refused to take the case, for obvious reasons. In addition, the other attorneys in his law firm claimed there were no files involving me, despite my many conversations to the contrary with Gerald.
The near-term demise of industrial civilization, followed soon after by the extinction of Homo sapiens likely will preclude justice, although this is no excuse to give up. The inimitable Edward Abbey pointed out, some hundred years after Clifford, “better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.” My detractors would have you believe otherwise.
Shortly after initiating contact in late September 2022, a renowned legal team’s email platform was hacked and went awry. They then received an exceptionally threatening message from, “the executioner.” Blood dripped from the hands of the cartoon figure. Only eight days after this legal team contacted me, they expressed their lack of interest in working with me. Their final message to me: “Walk away Guy.”
The campaign continues into 2023. In early January 2023, I was invited to a renowned podcast with strong connections to corporate media outlets. I completed the requisite forms and was preparing for the mid-January interview when, three days after receiving the invitation, it was withdrawn. A similar incident followed another invitation in July 2023.
Demand Letter to Wrong Kind of Green Authors
Demand Letter to Keith Harmon Snow
These attempts at character assassination have nothing to do with evidence. The evidence is clear: All humans will soon be dead.
I will continue to play the fool in pursuing and promoting evidence, excellence, and love. The clever ones know and avoid my folly in a culture characterized by lies, mediocrity, and indifference. After all, it is generally easier to do wrong than to do right. Color me a stubborn, slow learner. That I can look myself in the mirror without embarrassment is small consolation. I cannot imagine the cast of deplorables in this case being similarly at peace with the reflections they face.
Same-day update: In response to this essay, Colby Smith (who I’ve never met) says it well. Her reaction to the essay exhibits relevant anger and confusion at the pitiful characters defaming me:
I am blown away that these slanderers and vilifiers are still at it with such venom. It’s mad. I don’t follow this bizarre saga on the edge of my seat, but I pick up bits and bobs when I drop in intending to read articles … occasionally I follow a link or look up some schmuck’s name, and occasionally read something written by one of the Prof’s defamers … what blows my mind is that Guy has been forced to hang out his intimate washing (clearly Pauline to a degree as well) for public scrutiny and no one seems to think that this is unacceptable. Some of the things that have come out are a person’s most private treasures — those things someone does or fantasizes about doing with consenting adults in PRIVACY, and now they are neatly laid out for us to pick through … so we are invited to wonder about, to argue the ethics of, laugh at, scoff, be amused by, and ponder things that Guy (and Pauline) never would have invited us to know about their lives in the first place. That is certainly a place where consent ended dead in its tracks, but the people who are aggressively forcing this non-consensual exposure of the most intimate aspects of their lives are not being handled as aggressors, but instead are being allowed to hide behind the masks of victims or noble defenders. To me this is a massive breech of trust and ethics. You shouldn’t be forced to defend yourself against unfounded/unproven allegations by having to publicly strip down to your socks and bend over for everyone. 😕
Nearly three years after I wrote and posted this essay, I was interviewed about the topic by journalist extraordinaire Jamarl Thomas. Our recorded conversation is archived here.
Five-year update on the afternoon of 8 November 2022: A twice-postponed, seven-minute telephone call with the CEO of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund concluded, as expected, with no offer of assistance.