To open a collection such as this is to feel the locks click shut behind you. There is no turning back. The pages you hold are a catalog of endings: the end of stable coastlines, the end of predictable seasons, the end of the vast, intricate web of human and non-human life we once, perhaps naively, called civilization. The overall mood is not one of anger, nor of frantic action, but of a profound and settled hopelessness. It is the sound of a long, slow exhale after the struggle has already been lost. This is the Doomer Anthology. It is not a warning. It is a eulogy.
Table of Contents
E.G. Willy ~ Radio City
Alison Stone ~ Why Don’t We
Rick Smith ~ We'll All Go Together and ~ crisis:
Judith Sanders ~ The Fall
William J. Ripple et al ~ The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth
James Reed ~ The Natural Order
Sandy Raschke ~ Under The Lesser Light
Paul-John Ramos ~ Musings at the City Dump
David Radavich ~ Today’s News
Q.R. Quasar ~ In Memoriam: For Extinct Alien Civilizations and ~ The Threat of Human Extinction: A Threat-Response Proposal
Marge Piercy ~ It hits me and ~ Where did they go?
Andy Oram ~ Martyology and ~ The end
Wes Lee ~ Love on the Fringe Luke Kemp et al ~ Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios
Louise Kantro ~ I Sit on the Couch Staring at the Wall
Mary-Lane Kamberg ~ Saving Nature and ~ Before the Crossing
Paul Hostovsky ~ Cholera and ~ The Story of the World and ~ Flags ~ Striptease at the Ars Poetica
Kathleen Hellen ~ little capitalists and ~ late addiction
Hugh Findlay ~ Prayer for the Taking
Kate Falvey ~ Junktopia and ~ Ground Truthing
Alan Elyshevitz ~ Living in the Car and ~ Extinction
Joe P. L. Davidson et al ~ Climate catastrophe: The value of envisioning the worst-case scenarios of climate change
Claudia Buckholts ~ Christmas Letter