Richard Crim
2 min readMar 6, 2023

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This is a BRILLIANT piece of writing!

Let's call it the "Doomer Manifesto" and publish it everywhere because you nailed it. So many good quotes.

A CLIMATE CRISIS CALL TO ACTION

OUR PLANET IS WARMING.

We can’t UNDO what’s been DONE.

Changes already set in motion are triggering climate tipping points, and after a tipping point, a system reorganizes itself.

A warmer planet, is a planet less hospitable to human life and human civilization. As our planet warms, things will tend to worsen exponentially.

Climate change can’t be about more culture war / social media crap. Not that other issues are unimportant, but let’s face it: the “end of days” problem — an avoidable phenomenon or not — transcends all other issues.

At the very least, it’s tough to see our way out of climate change within the paradigm of capitalism.

Doomism understands that everything we do now will make a huge difference, and we are clearly not doing enough. We’re going in the wrong direction, and lack the uncorrupted political apparatus to set meaningful policies that move us in the right direction.

So, what is the action? What do the doomers believe in doing?

To limit human suffering, both now and in the future.

This is the metric, the measuring stick we ought to use to consider ourselves moral beings: How do we reduce the suffering of our fellow humans and preserve enough of the planetary ecology that a FUTURE for humanity is possible.

Doomism is not incompatible with empathy.

Doomism is not incompatible with action.

Doomism is not being complacent.

Not thinking someone else will get the job done. Not thinking we can carry on with business as usual.

We can’t carry on with business as usual.

“You can’t just sit around waiting for hope to come. Then you’re acting like spoiled, irresponsible children."

"You don’t seem to understand that hope is something you have to earn.” - Gretta Thunberg

I love it. Wonderful outline, we can build on this.

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Richard Crim
Richard Crim

Written by Richard Crim

My entire life can be described in one sentence: Things didn’t go as planned, and I’m OK with that.

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