Effective December 2016, McPherson has a monthly column for Weekly Hubris, later titled Hubris
McPherson’s university website includes a relatively comprehensive list of academic publications published before 2015. His author page at Amazon is here.
PublishAmerica, America Star Books, and Tayen Lane declared bankruptcy. Tayen Lane declared bankruptcy without issuing royalty payments. The Revised Second Edition of Ms. Ladybug and Mr. Honeybee: A Love Story at the End of Time was published in 2018, as shown below. The Revised Second Editions of Going Dark and Walking Away from Empire were published in 2019, as shown below. The revised edition of Academic Pursuits was published in 2020.
Recent peer-reviewed journal articles:
McPherson, Guy R., Beril Kallfelz-Sirmacek, James R. Massa, William Kallfelz, and Ricardo Vinuesa. 2023. The commonly overlooked environmental tipping points. Results in Engineering, June 2023.
McPherson, Guy R., Beril Sirmacek, and Ricardo Vinuesac. 2022. Environmental thresholds for mass-extinction events. Results in Engineering, March 2022, 100342. See award below.
McPherson, Guy. 2021. Rapid Loss of Habitat for Homo sapiens. Academia Letters Number 498, 1 April 2021.
McPherson, Guy R. 2020. Near-Term Loss of Habitat for Homo sapiens (pdf). Earth & Environmental Science Research & Reviews 3(4):216-218.
McPherson, Guy R. 2020. The Means by Which COVID-19 Could Cause Extinction of All Life on Earth (pdf). Environmental Analysis & Ecology Studies 7(2):711-713. doi.org/10.31031/EAES.2020.07.000656
McPherson, Guy R. 2020. The Role of Conservation Biology in Understanding the Importance of Arctic Sea Ice (pdf). Earth & Environmental Science Research & Reviews 3(3):147-149. doi.org/10.33140/EESRR.03.03.03
McPherson, Guy R. 2020. Trees Cannot Sequester Enough Carbon to Slow Abrupt Climate Change. Modern Concepts & Developments in Agronomy (pdf) 6(4). doi.org/10.31031/MCDA.2020.06.000641
McPherson, Guy R. 2020. Earth is in the Midst of Abrupt, Irreversible Climate Change. Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences Research 2(2):1-2.
McPherson, Guy R. 2019. Going Halfway: Climate Reports Ignore the Full Evidence, and Therapists Ignore Grief Recovery. Clinical Psychology Forum 321:28-31.
McPherson, Guy R. 2019. Becoming Hope-Free: Parallels Between Death of Individuals and Extinction of Homo sapiens. Clinical Psychology Forum 317:8-11. The full paper is linked here (pdf).
Books
McPherson, G.R., D.D. Wade, and C.B. Phillips (compilers). 1990. Glossary of Fire Management Terms Used in the United States. Society of American Foresters, Bethesda, Maryland.
McPherson, G.R. 1997. Ecology and Management of North American Savannas. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
McPherson, G.R. and S. DeStefano. 2003. Applied Ecology and Natural Resource Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.
Weltzin, J.F. and G.R. McPherson (editors). 2003. Changing Precipitation Regimes and Terrestrial Ecosystems. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
McPherson, G.R. 2005. Killing the Natives: Has the American Dream Become a Nightmare? Whitmore Publishing Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
McPherson, G.R. 2006. Letters to a Young Academic: Seeking Teachable Moments. Rowman & Littlefield Education, Lanham, Maryland.
Brothers, Mac. 2006. Academic Pursuits. PublishAmerica, Baltimore, Maryland.
Jensen, S.E. and G.R. McPherson. 2008. Living with Fire: Fire Ecology and Policy for the Twenty-first Century. University of California Press, Berkeley. I read from this book here.
Esparza, A.X. and G.R. McPherson (editors). 2009. The Planner’s Guide to Natural Resource Conservation: The Science of Land Development Beyond the Metropolitan Fringe. Springer, New York.
McPherson, G.R. 2011. Walking Away from Empire: A Personal Journey. PublishAmerica, Baltimore, Maryland. Reviewed by Michel Weber for Cosmos and History, Sandy Krolick, John Rember, Cameron Conaway, and several readers at Amazon.
McPherson, G.R. 2013. Going Dark. PublishAmerica, Baltimore, Maryland. Reviewed by Carolyn Baker at Speaking Truth to Power and Anne Pyterek at Blue Bus Books
Baker, C. and G.R. McPherson. 2014. Extinction Dialogs: How to Live with Death in Mind. Tayen Lane Publishing.
Baker, C. and G.R. McPherson. 2015. Extinction Dialogs: How to Live with Death in Mind, Revised Second Edition. Tayen Lane Publishing.
Pauline Panagiotou Schneider and Guy R. McPherson. 2015. Ms. Ladybug and Mr. Honeybee: A Love Story at the End of Time. America Star Books, Baltimore, Maryland.
A review of Ms. Ladybug and Mr. Honeybee: A Love Story at the End of Time was published in Huffington Post 16 May 2016. It’s here.
Pauline Panagiotou Schneider and Guy R. McPherson. 2018. Revised Second Edition of Ms. Ladybug and Mr. Honeybee: A Love Story at the End of Time. Woodthrush Productions, New York.
McPherson, Guy R. 2019. Only Love Remains: Dancing at the Edge of Extinction. Woodthrush Productions, New York.
Only Love Remains Reviewed at Readers’ Favorite
McPherson, G.R. 2019. Revised Second Edition of Going Dark. Woodthrush Productions, New York.
McPherson, G.R. 2019. Revised Second Edition of Walking Away from Empire: A Personal Journey. Woodthrush Productions, New York.
McPherson, G.R. 2020. Another Voice Crying in the Wilderness: My Homage to Edward Abbey. Woodthrush Productions, New York. Professional jazz musician Rick Della Ratta provides an endorsement in the last 10 minutes of this podcast.
Available in three formats:
- Signed, inscribed copies for $18 (includes postage and handling within the United States). These copies will be signed by the author and inscribed to whom you wish (e.g., “To Bill and Jane …”).
- Paper edition for $9.99
- Electronic edition for $2.99
McPherson, G.R. 2020. Academic Pursuits. Woodthrush Productions, New York.
McPherson, Guy R. 2021. Killing the Natives: A Retrospective Analysis
Guest commentaries
Guy R. McPherson, September 2024, Afterword, It Bears Repeating.
Guy R. McPherson, Beril Kallfelz-Sirmacek, and William M. Kallfelz, 30 November 2022, Medium: The largest elephant in the room: aerosol masking.
Guy R. McPherson, Beril Kallfelz-Sirmacek, and William M. Kallfelz, 30 November 2022, The largest elephant in the room: aerosol masking. arXiv:2211.16115
Transition Voice and Transition Network have removed all of my guest commentaries for unspecified reasons. Several of the commentaries are still available as they are permalinked on other blogs. Find the full list at the bottom of this section.
Guy R. McPherson, 18 October 2021, Best Books About the American West via invitation from Shepherd
Guy R. McPherson, Beril Sirmacek, and Ricardo Vinuesa, 23 August 2021, What scientists dismiss while looking at the thresholds of temperature change for mass extinctions. arXiv:2108.08933
28 March 2007 Arizona Daily Star, Peak oil scenario paints frightening future for all (for the university’s ludicrous response to the latter, click here; for the subsequent pseudo-apology, click here)
16 August 2007 Tucson Weekly, It’s time to close the borders–to people coming and going, to imports and exports
6 April 2008 Arizona Republic, End of the world as we know it: You might feel fine, but high oil cost, scarcity mean American Empire is about to come crashing down*
The piece in the Republic led to a Live Talk Wednesday follow-up article
14 May 2009 Tucson Weekly, It’s time for me to leave my current life and start living in a post-peak-oil world
23 February 2010 Sedona Times, How will climate change & peak oil impact Sedona?
October 2011 Conservation Biology, Going back to the land in the Age of Entitlement (pdf). This essay elicited a comment, to which I responded: Choosing an alternative path (follows the comment to which it responds) (pdf)
June 2012 Conservation Biology, Choosing an alternative path (follows the comment to which it responds) (pdf). Editorial that sparked this online dialog is here (pdf).
22 November 2012 The Good Men Project, Walking Away from Empire
15 March 2013 Blazing Kat Productions, All of the above*
30 April 2013 The Good Men Project, Climate is a social justice issue
10 May 2013 The Good Men Project, If good is common good, we are failing
1 June 2013 The Good Men Project, On Climate Change & Collective Courage.
6 June 2013 The Good Men Project, Divided We Fall, And So We Are (permalinked at Island Breath).
15 August 2013 The Good Men Project, Questioning Culture: A Series
18 August 2013 The Good Men Project, Questioning Culture: The Long Littleness of Life
24 August 2013 The Good Men Project, Questioning Culture: Shades of Existential Gray
28 August 2013 The Good Men Project, Questioning Culture: When Personal Happiness brings Suffering to Others
31 August 2013 The Good Men Project, Questioning Culture: American Empire
3 September 2013 The Good Men Project, Questioning Culture: Our Addiction to Growth
7 September 2013 The Good Men Project, Questioning Culture: The Absurdity of Authenticity
12 October 2013 The Good Men Project, Expressing Our Humanity As We Drown In It
28 October 2013 The Good Men Project, Protecting the Common Good
15 November 2013 The Good Men Project, Hope is Hopeless: On the Dangers of Hopium
19 November 2013 Blazing Kat Productions, Why Bother?*
22 December 2013 The Next Step, Are you ready to take The Next Step?
28 December 2013 The Next Step, It’s Time for Me to Leave My Current Life and Start Living in a Post-Peak-Oil World
3 January 2014 The Good Men Project, Trading Hope for Action
22 January 2014 Shift, Nuclear Armageddon* (permalinked at Island Breath)
7 March 2014 The Good Men Project, And Thoreau Shakes His Head at America.
15 March 2014 The Good Men Project, Life is Short, and Urgent
29 May 2014 Shift, Farewell Michael Ruppert, and Thank You*
19 September 2014 Shift, Feedback Loops: A Death Spiral?*
27 January 2015 Shift, Geoengineering: A Techno-Fix Solution for the Climate?*
18 October 2015, Shift, The Politics of Addressing Climate Change*
Missing Transition Voice articles
1 October 2010 Transition Voice, A climate wake-up call
1 November 2010 Transition Voice , Hope springs eternal
1 December 2010 Transition Voice, The road to nowhere
1 January 2011 Transition Voice, Doom or Boom? Let’s do both!
3 February 2011 Transition Voice, Two roads diverged
10 March 2011 Transition Voice, Extinction event?
14 March 2011 Transition Voice, Nuclear nightmares
14 April 2011 Transition Voice, If the Earth could talk
17 May 2011 Transition Voice, Blessings of a dying paradigm
13 June 2011 Transition Voice, Transitioning
12 July 2011 Transition Voice, Viral collapse
12 August 2011 Transition Voice, We are the birds of prey; a marriage of contradictions
6 September 2011 Transition Voice, To fight climate change, we need to understand humanity
7 October 2011 Transition Voice, Philosophy and conservation
9 November 2011 Transition Voice, Three paths to near-term human extinction
9 December 2011 Transition Voice, Is terminating the industrial economy a moral act? (permalinked at Counter Currents)
2 January 2012 Transition Voice, One hundred and thirty-eight in the shade (permalinked at Counter Currents)
6 February 2012 Transition Voice, Resources and anthropocentrism
12 March 2012 Transition Voice, Humanity needs to write a whole New Story (with Sherry Ackerman)
13 March 2012 Transition Voice, My story of dropping out and acting up (permalinked at Seismologik*)
26 March 2012 Transition Voice, Ackerman and McPherson dialog: Practical paths to a post-carbon lifestyle (with Sherry Ackerman)
25 April 2012 Transition Voice, The gates of Hell (permalinked at Ukiah Blog)
14 May 2012 Transition Voice, Human health: return of the four horsemen? (permalinked at Living Green Magazine*)
23 May 2012 Transition Voice, Money can’t buy you love (with Sherry Ackerman)
11 June 2012 Transition Voice, The Age of Consequences (permalinked at As the World Sleeps*, Island Breath and Counter Currents)
17 July 2012 Transition Voice, The gift liberation front
10 August 2012 Transition Voice, Not even a spoonful of sugar could help (permalinked at Counter Currents, Seemorerocks, Indymedia Climate and Canadians for Emergency Action on Climate Change)
27 September 2012 Transition Voice, Madness of the mainstream (with Sherry Ackerman)
5 October 2012 Transition Voice, Only love remains
9 October 2012 Transition Voice, Collapse now — It’s all the rage (without the rage) (permalinked at Seemorerocks)
19 November 2012 Transition Voice, A farewell to arms (permalinked at Seemorerocks and Island Breath)
11 December 2012 Transition Voice, A new kind of Christmas story
30 January 2013 Transition Voice, Roundup of distressing climate news
20 February 2013 Transition Voice, Ackerman and McPherson Dialogue: The idiot box (with Sherry Ackerman, permalinked at PeakOil and Seemorerocks)
25 February 2013 Transition Voice, Sadly, extinction is no laughing matter, (permalinked at Transition Network)
25 March 2013 Transition Voice, For sale, habitable planet, too late (permalinked at Transition Network and Dandelion Salad)
15 April 2013 Transition Voice, Waiting for the asteroid, eyes open (permalinked at Transition Network)
7 June 2013 Transition Voice, And then what? How shall I live my life? (permalinked at Seemorerocks)
29 July 2013 Transition Voice, Disobedience the true foundation of liberty
19 August 2013 Transition Voice, 19 ways climate change is now feeding itself (permalinked at the Red Mullet)
19 September 2013 Transition Voice, As the empire declines it gets nastier (permalinked at Transition Network)
4 November 2013 Transition Voice, Hopium for the masses, renewable energy edition (permalinked at Peak Oil News and Message Boards)
6 December 2013 Transition Voice, Before it goes dark, let’s live
Other articles
Foreword*, The Coming Extinction of Humanity: Six Converging Crises That Threaten Our Survival, by R. J. Connors.
McPherson, G.R. 2012. Going back to the land in the Age of Entitlement. Pages 53-56 in Mary Anne Redding (editor), Gila: I. Radical Visions, Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe. Part II, The Enduring Silence, is a collection of photographs by Guggenheim Fellow Michael P. Berman.
McPherson, Guy. 2012. A life out of empire. Pages 481-487 in Keith Farnish’s book, Underminers: A Practical Guide for Radical Change. Published under a Creative Commons License.
February 2013 Beyond industrial civilization, Earthlines 4:22-24 (pdf of contents here*)
McPherson, Guy, November 2015, invited chapter, How to Save Humanity