thegreatstory | Hopium Dealers Hall of Fame (with a Nod to Guy McPherson) @thegreatstory | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
This hour-long video represents the heart of Michael Dowd's message during the summer of 2022. In it, he confesses to being a repeat offender (i.e., a notorious hopium peddler) between 2000-2012 and also nominates friends, colleagues, and NYTimes bestselling authors for special honor in a "Hopium Dealers Hall of Fame". :-)
“HOPIUM” (definition) ...
1. A comforting vision of the future that requires breaking the laws of physics, biology, or ecology.
2. Addiction to false (literally, impossible) hopes.
3. Irrational or unwarranted optimism that promises short-term relief but delivers crushing disappointment and despair when reality inevitably bites.
4. Any ‘hope’ that leads us to put off or not prioritize what matters most — individually and collectively.
5. Believing the climate crisis can be ‘fixed’ or ‘solved’ by doubling down on the very things driving ecocide...
HOPIUM DEALER: Someone who ignores (or is blind to) our real predicament — ecological overshoot — and who proposes “fixes” or “solutions” to the climate crisis that rely on the very things causing / driving collapse and ecocide.
MAIN CAUSES/DRIVERS of COLLAPSE and ECOCIDE
1. Anthropocentrism — human-centered religious values, worldview
2. Civilization — extractive/exploitative (city-based) totalitarian narcissism
3. Technology — science/tech: "Man: conqueror of nature" / electricity
4. Progress — how we measure “wealth”, “wellbeing”, and “success”
5. Economics — trade/money systems that incentivize evil and ecocide
Six Odious Truths Few People Know (and almost no one can accept)
1. We are decades into abrupt climate change, unstoppable collapse, and a mass
extinction that will likely include most plants, animals, and humans...by 2040
2. The more human GHG emissions decline, the faster Earth overheats due to
less particulate pollution: aerosol masking / global dimming / “McPherson paradox”.
3. All human-centered civilizations destroy their habitat, then self-destruct.
4. Technology and the market can’t save us from the ecocide they always create.
5. Climate change is not our worst predicament — ecological overshoot is.
6. Denying #1-5 betrays ignorance of the main causes/drivers of collapse & ecocide
and increases the likelihood of scores of nuclear meltdowns in near future.
VIDEOS and PAPERS by Guy McPherson
Edge of Extinction: Maybe I’m Wrong: youtu.be/KxKBcy_28_g (8:36)
‘May' and ‘Might' Become ‘Is': youtu.be/-U45PMTOicM (7:49)
Be Your Own Superhero: vimeo.com/363363105 (1:00)
How We Go Extinct: youtu.be/oYJ38lHMn64 (3:13)
Why We Go Extinct: youtu.be/kcamLd-3kug (6:07)
When We Go Extinct: youtu.be/1JYI6rv9GGk (4:45)
What Will Go Extinct: youtu.be/rfoYGT6UytY (7:10)
Means of Extinction: Loss of Aerosol Masking: youtu.be/HBANJeCgsD0 (3:34)
Science Update: Aerosol Masking Previously Underestimated on Overheated Earth: youtu.be/3xeItd5kdt4 (9:47)
Video, Supporting Articles: Arctic Ocean Warming, Losing Ice
guymcpherson.com/arctic-ice-loss (9:00)
guymcpherson.com/video-supporting-articles-arctic-ocean-warming-losing-ice-addendum
Peer reviewed recent papers
onlinescientificresearch.com/articles/earth-is-in-the-midst-of-abrupt-irreversible-climate-change.pdf
guymcpherson.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Clinical-Psychology-Forum-May-2019.pdf
Longer essays
Extinction Foretold, Extinction Ignored: guymcpherson.com/extinction_foretold_extinction_ignored
Climate Change Summary: guymcpherson.com/climate-chaos/climate-change-summary-and-update
This hour-long video represents the heart of Michael Dowd's message during the summer of 2022. In it, he confesses to being a repeat offender (i.e., a notorious hopium peddler) between 2000-2012 and also nominates friends, colleagues, and NYTimes bestselling authors for special honor in a "Hopium Dealers Hall of Fame". :-)
“HOPIUM” (definition) ...
1. A comforting vision of the future that requires breaking the laws of physics, biology, or ecology.
2. Addiction to false (literally, impossible) hopes.
3. Irrational or unwarranted optimism that promises short-term relief but delivers crushing disappointment and despair when reality inevitably bites.
4. Any ‘hope’ that leads us to put off or not prioritize what matters most — individually and collectively.
5. Believing the climate crisis can be ‘fixed’ or ‘solved’ by doubling down on the very things driving ecocide...
HOPIUM DEALER: Someone who ignores (or is blind to) our real predicament — ecological overshoot — and who proposes “fixes” or “solutions” to the climate crisis that rely on the very things causing / driving collapse and ecocide.
MAIN CAUSES/DRIVERS of COLLAPSE and ECOCIDE
1. Anthropocentrism — human-centered religious values, worldview
2. Civilization — extractive/exploitative (city-based) totalitarian narcissism
3. Technology — science/tech: "Man: conqueror of nature" / electricity
4. Progress — how we measure “wealth”, “wellbeing”, and “success”
5. Economics — trade/money systems that incentivize evil and ecocide
Six Odious Truths Few People Know (and almost no one can accept)
1. We are decades into abrupt climate change, unstoppable collapse, and a mass
extinction that will likely include most plants, animals, and humans...by 2040
2. The more human GHG emissions decline, the faster Earth overheats due to
less particulate pollution: aerosol masking / global dimming / “McPherson paradox”.
3. All human-centered civilizations destroy their habitat, then self-destruct.
4. Technology and the market can’t save us from the ecocide they always create.
5. Climate change is not our worst predicament — ecological overshoot is.
6. Denying #1-5 betrays ignorance of the main causes/drivers of collapse & ecocide
and increases the likelihood of scores of nuclear meltdowns in near future.
VIDEOS and PAPERS by Guy McPherson
Edge of Extinction: Maybe I’m Wrong: youtu.be/KxKBcy_28_g (8:36)
‘May' and ‘Might' Become ‘Is': youtu.be/-U45PMTOicM (7:49)
Be Your Own Superhero: vimeo.com/363363105 (1:00)
How We Go Extinct: youtu.be/oYJ38lHMn64 (3:13)
Why We Go Extinct: youtu.be/kcamLd-3kug (6:07)
When We Go Extinct: youtu.be/1JYI6rv9GGk (4:45)
What Will Go Extinct: youtu.be/rfoYGT6UytY (7:10)
Means of Extinction: Loss of Aerosol Masking: youtu.be/HBANJeCgsD0 (3:34)
Science Update: Aerosol Masking Previously Underestimated on Overheated Earth: youtu.be/3xeItd5kdt4 (9:47)
Video, Supporting Articles: Arctic Ocean Warming, Losing Ice
guymcpherson.com/arctic-ice-loss (9:00)
guymcpherson.com/video-supporting-articles-arctic-ocean-warming-losing-ice-addendum
Peer reviewed recent papers
onlinescientificresearch.com/articles/earth-is-in-the-midst-of-abrupt-irreversible-climate-change.pdf
guymcpherson.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Clinical-Psychology-Forum-May-2019.pdf
Longer essays
Extinction Foretold, Extinction Ignored: guymcpherson.com/extinction_foretold_extinction_ignored
Climate Change Summary: guymcpherson.com/climate-chaos/climate-change-summary-and-update
