The Future is Rural: Adaptation to Energy Descent @postcarboninstitute

Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Post Carbon Institute Board President Dr. Jason Bradford gives a presentation based on his report, The Future is Rural, for the WAO Summit 2022.

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The Future is Rural: Adaptation to Energy Descent

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$How to Lose Friends and Demoralize People: The Science (sic!) of Near-Term Extinction Send us a text (https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/244372/open_sms) Meet Guy McPherson, the extinction enthusiast who undermines legitimate climate concerns by predicting we’re all going to die yesterday. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation. Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language. For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis (https://bit.ly/RSIC-Journal) from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD. Sources/Links/Notes: • Guy McPherson, Near-Term Extinction blog post (https://guymcpherson.com/climate-chaos/climate-change-summary-and-update/) , Nature Bats Last (last updated 2016). • Scott Johnson, How Guy McPherson gets it wrong (https://fractalplanet.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/how-guy-mcpherson-gets-it-wrong/) , Fractal Planet, 2014. • Michael Tobis, McPherson’s Evidence That Doom Doom Doom (http://planet3.org/2014/03/13/mcphersons-evidence-that-doom-doom-doom/) , Planet 3.0, 2014. • Nathan Curry, Humanity Is Getting Verrrrrrry Close to Extinction (https://www.vice.com/en/article/wd4egq/near-term-extinctionists-believe-the-world-is-going-to-end-very-soon) , Vice, 2013. • BizNewsTV, Humans will be extinct by 2026 (https://youtu.be/2AK-O5hICxE?t=1859) - doom and gloom prophet Prof McPherson on abrupt climate change, January 19, 2023. • Shannon Osaka, Why climate doomers are replacing climate deniers,” Washington Post, March 24, 2023. • Jerome Roos, We Don’t Know What Will Happen Next, (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/opinion/global-crisis-future.html) New York Times, April 18, 2023. • List of McPherson predictions (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Guy_McPherson) Support the show (https://www.postcarbon.org/supportcrazytown/)$

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The Future is Rural: Adaptation to Energy Descent