Who's A Doomer Now, HUH?
And YET... Who's A Doomer Now, HUH? We never wanted to be right. Doom reigns. Over a decade ago I started following the subreddit r/collapse. I came across it, I think, while doing some research on climate change for my job at the time. The term doomers had yet to be absorbed into the online discourse. The links on r/collapse— research and news about climate change, disease, politics, finance, war —weren’t sending me to the outer reaches of the internet or to conspiracy sites. This was a surprise. They were sending me to mainstream news sites, academic and scientific journals. I was shocked by this alternative view of how everything was going. I was even more shocked that the sources were reputable and that I’d missed most of this. I was informed. I could hold court on our incremental but steady PROGRESS. How had I missed this? Probably it wasn’t true. Not true true . Not if I’d missed it. Clever me. Ok, I was working on climate change at the time so I obviously kne...