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- Depart, Depart!
- The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate
- The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
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- The Red Corner: The Rise and Fall of Communism in Northeastern Montana
- Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project & the Lessons of International Solidarity
- The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
- Fire, Storm Flood: The Violence of Climate Change
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
- The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II
- Sea of Tranquility
- The Revivalists
- The Fated Sky
- The New Wilderness
- Project Hail Mary
- The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time: The Arctic Mission to the Epicenter of Climate Change
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
- Denial (by Jon Raymond)
- America City
- The 2084 Report: An Oral History of the Great Warming
- The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
- The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
- Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
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- The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
- California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric–and What It Means for America’s Power Grid
- I Hate You-Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
- The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
- Sandy Hook (by Elizabeth Williamson)
- Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland
- Fire and Flood (by Eugene Linden)
- Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
- The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
- Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
- Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
- The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
the vibes have actually never been better, and i have a general contempt for doomers like the residents of /r/collapse and other weird subreddits like that
Better stay away from okdoomer.io.
Do you have any tips for resisting the Doom Spiral™?
i am familiar with okdoomer and i think it’s indicative of the sort of goofy goober shit most doomers have to work themselves up about to even get in the mindset in the first place, which is hyperfixate on anything which validates their priors and ignore the overwhelming body of evidence which contradicts or actively rejects their priors. even people on /r/collapse sometimes complain about how most of what the subreddit does is post poorly sourced suicide-bait and i think okdoomer is the tenuous but logical conclusion of that
in my mind, the resistance is just a common sense thing. active nihilism is dumb and brain poison. you will simply never do anything useful if your starting position is “this doesn’t matter and i don’t think there’s anything anyone can do to make it matter”–in any case this is a completely falsifiable and illogical position. a whole lot of shit does matter even on the margins. 2.9C of climate change is not an academic distinction versus 3C of climate change.
from a practical and crude standpoint, the conclusion of the position is you might as well kill yourself because it’ll never get better–but conspicuously, the vast majority of self-IDed doomers don’t do this and instead continue to do what amounts to malingering in a world they believe is going to eventually be characterized by resource wars, mass famine, and a climate that wants to kill them. that makes no real sense unless you think these are exaggerations, which i think many of them do actually recognize deep down.
from a personal standpoint, engaging in doomerism will just ruin all your relationships–nobody likes to hang around a complete downer.
Yeah, I don’t actively engage in that and try to avoid it, but pathologically I tend to get lost in doubt and dread. This occasionally spirals me in the direction of doom, with or without doing Google searches on climate change.
Admittedly it’s a much less of an issue since I stopped using Reddit so that’s probably got something to do with it. Beehaw has been a godsend.
imo the most productive way to deal with the inherent anxiety is just to do something or be engaged in something, however small–being in an organization you can devote even a few hours to a month is usually a godsend in this regard, whether that’s DSA or Sunrise or Food Not Bombs, or a non-American equivalent to these groups. it’s so, so much harder to default to assuming nothing will get better if you surround yourself with people and groups fighting to make things better
❤️ Thank you! I’ll renew my efforts there. I’d gotten involved and then uninvolved. That probably has a lot to do with it.
I appreciate you.