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  • Better versus More

    Guy McPherson

    “Where does ownership take us? We need only investigate reality, based on recent trends, to see where we’re headed. And that place is to the edge of extinction. To the notion that might…

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  • Lying Flat & Quiet Quitting in The Anthropocene

    Guy McPherson

    “I was not a climate scientist. I still am not. I am reasonably knowledgeable about climate science, however. As part of my ecological research, I have been studying climate science since I was…

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  • 24 Hours to Live?

    Guy McPherson

    “Albert Einstein, upon growing tired of answering questions about his thoughts on relativity, once gave this response: ‘Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.…

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  • Vertebrates Can’t & Won’t “Keep Up”

    Guy McPherson

    “Based on the peer-reviewed papers I have been citing for more than a decade, and the supporting papers that have been published more recently, I cannot imagine it will take centuries to achieve…

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  • Not at All Foggy Now, Mr. Fermi

    Guy McPherson

    “American professor and science educator Carl Sagan and Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist I. S. Shklovskii speculated in their 1966 book, Intelligent Life in the Universe, that technological civilizations will either destroy themselves within…

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  • Everything’s Ablaze, Always & Forever

    Guy McPherson

    “I’ll cut to the chase. The gist of Becker’s short essay is contained within the latter half of a single paragraph: ‘All human systems are enormous trash fires. Every single one, no matter…

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  • You Killed My Planet: Prepare to Die

    Guy McPherson

    “A few years after seeing the film for the first time, I adapted the line from Inigo Montoya to fit my own narrative, and reflect my own dire conclusions: ‘Hello, my name is…

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  • Facing The Four Horsemen

    Guy McPherson

    “If you believe you can overcome the impending collapse of global food production, welcome to Club Naiveté. I, too, used to believe I simply needed to grow and store my own food to…

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  • Climate Science’s Two Best-Kept Secrets

    Guy McPherson

    “So, that’s it: A three-step plan to nirvana, starting with nuclear war. This is the kind of story that captures the wishful, wish-filled imaginations of people constantly misinformed by governments, so-called climate scientists,…

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  • Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea

    Guy McPherson

    “Inconveniently, Earth is headed for a dead ocean. As founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Paul Watson has repeatedly said, “if the oceans die, we die.” After all, life on Earth originated in the ocean.…

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