So grateful to Karen and the late, great Michael. I try to re-visit this interview periodically as it is sings to me as a sermon.

Hi Mike! Glad to see this pop up in the front of my feed. Thank you for your consistent preaching.

Wonderful conversation. Michaels hands so distracting!

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3:07 Michael Dowd talks

i can not be at peace with the fact that we are needlessly destroying our planet due to the greed of a few and we're on the brink of civilization collapse, 6th mass extinction underway. I am heartbroken, angry, confused and upset, We have so much potential and opportunity and yet we have messed it up

This man’s legacy continues

Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!

Michael, I miss you and you have helped me more than anyone else to cope with what we are walking through. Love you man

Michael, I miss you and you have helped me more than anyone else to cope with what we are walking through. Love you man

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It became apparent to me many years ago that humanity lacks the required education to adapt using Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Jacque Fresco was our last hope. And he knew that there is a higher basis of probability for us to starve to death and kill each other than there is for a Resource-Based Economy to be installed. An RBE meaning - distributing all goods in services equally in line with the carrying capacity of the earth. We are far too savage to make this sudden jump.

fundamental issue is ecological overshoot, not climate - industrial civilization cannot continue

Thank you, Michael; thank you, Connie; thank you, friends; thank you, all my relations. To everything there is a season.

michael is gone - he finished his assignment - if you're reading this you may still have a task or two to do

I am so with you. Thank you. ❤

Wonderful work , thank you. Peace😊

At 19:39 Michael refers to this presentation he made to a group comprised with some Pakistani government officials: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qH-wdaGIic-rY7s

The tone is evangelical. The argument seems too abstract, too academic. It comes off as dogmatic and relies on or assumes faith in a point of view. You need to cite specific facts about physical resources and their use or misuse. I think a case can be made, but I would like to see it made with concrete information. Give the proximate causes of ecological overshoot. For example: we vastly increased the apparent carrying capacity of planet earth with chemical fertilizers, a technological advance. Explain how we know that we are running out of fossil fuels needed to make chemical fertilizers, and why we cannot find substitutes (if we can't). Mention how climate change affects availability of fresh water and arable land, and how these affect food production and therefore carrying capacity. Discuss potential solutions (wind, solar, nuclear) and why you think they are insufficient. Specifically explain how our current course will result in "nuclear meltdown" and what you mean by this. I think a case can be made, but you are not making a case, merely making assertions.

I love him, but his take on meat is off. At about time 23:00 , he says to let go of not eating meat, and then basically immediately says to treat other species well. This is a contradiction.

Connie, stay well, whatever that/it means, 😕... 💖. 🌠.

Jordan Perry seems like he has a lot more to figure out.

At 28.32 is the point I try to make when talking post doom to folks. A million pissed off youth soon. Very frightened as well.

Grief management is me gardening and seed saving for next year. Sharing my knowledge and communing with other gardeners.

I still miss him. He was always eloquently uplifting in his sermons, interviews, etc. We'll be honoring and remembering him tonight through his Collapse Acceptance Alliance community. I know the sharings will be beautiful yet sad because he is gone.

This will prove to be a timeless encouragement from Michael Dowd a couple of months before his untimely, but well-accepted, death. So indeed he never did see another summer.

Thanks so much for these wise words. Miss you, Michael

Interesting. Glad you interviewed these 2. No Santa Claus. I really need a blueprint how to face abrupt unstoppable climate change abd collapse of our civilization/existential threat.

28:00 there's a difference between accepting an external change over which you have no control, versus accepting a consequence of your own actions which are still ongoing choices.

10:00 Literacy escapes the priesthood and leads to social collapse? Wtf?

Nonsense, humanity will live on as a cosmological species. First we'll head to Mars and live on the frozen, toxic, radiation bathed desert with 38% the gravity we've evolved millions of years with in our natural habitat and 43 percent the solar intensity... Assuming we even survive the cosmic radiation on the trip to Mars... Once we get over those hurdles, we'll travel to other solar systems once we get over the time dilation problem of ensuring we somehow arrive to the Earth-like planets at the same time we received the light emitting from said planet light years away, figure out a propulsion method to travel the unimaginable distance without being broken apart by cosmic particles/debris and without killing the planet we journey to with a radiation bubble surrounding the ship capable of sterilizing solar systems...

That guy banned me from his fb group when I said Covid wasn't the end of the world in 2019. 😄

I think Guy McPherson has a bad case of PTSD. I find it hard to understand why Paul Beckwith would be on his list of "disreputable people". Sad to learn that Mr. Dowd passed away. The bible predicted "ruining of the Earth". It appears that Mr. McPherson is an atheist and of all of his research, studying the bible was not on his agenda. Everything from the environment to the wars and the so-called "woke" lunatics are again, all spelled out in the good book. Our existance on the planet under the current system is doomed, but unlike Guy McPherson's view, there is reason to be optimistic. I believe God will do what he promised, but how many people will do what it takes to be included in His salvation!

Thank you Connie ❤❤❤ it’s so nice to hear Michael’s voice

Some of this advice is terrible. Eating a donut does not help with overall short term happiness due to unhealthy food’s immediate impact on our health and mood. It’s disheartening to hear her promote having kids and using gas too; it’s kind of a slap in the face to how we got here. Also she was inspiring when she said to liquidate your 401k, then said she poured all of hers into real estate. Not very enlightened. Overall very interesting though.

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If you want to understand the math. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYukanukpZiUjJY

It feels so academic. Detached in the world of words.

The driving force is sex, sex is competitive, built in to all humanity in which consumption is a marker for sexual success , for you and your children. It is why communism and even socialism fail. People are competitive. It is selfish.

It is hard to truly stare into the abyss. And lonely.

COSMETICISM: faith that relatively superficial adjustments in our activities will keep the New World new and will perpetuate thge Age of Exuberance. CULTURE OF EXUBERANCE: the total complex of beliefs and practices associated with the for expansive life in the Age of Exuberance, a culture founded upon the myth of limitlessness.

Pausing at 40 minutes in... I've been listening to Marlow conversations as a theme for a short time. This one is unique compared to what I've listened to so far... in ways that serve to increase my respect! It is also my 1st exposure to Michael Dowd. I'm sorry to find that he's no longer with us just as I'm being introduced to his insights, but glad for the thread of his thought to draw from. Thankful that this is up here!

Morality has been beaten out of many people. Fear of death and the predicament of the existential extinction is terrifying for most folks. Business as usual is about all they are capable of. Later in post-doom there is philosophical help for those willing to feel the grief and love one another.

Hello Mike my name is Michelle Lynch-white I'd like to talk to you more in regards to my family tree as I don't no much about them

Grief, gratitude, and giving up. Why am I not impressed?

Not sure why you thought he was younger..Obviously he was a bit bothered by that comment because of the way he looked away when you said it

Mr. Dowd you are no longer with us in the flesh. God bless you and may you rest in peace.

I don't see how Christianity, particularly Catholicism gets a pass here. There whole "be fruitful and multiply" thing, anti-contraception, even charity, is much of what got us into this mess.

This is the darkest video I have ever seen.

"We ran over that dog years ago" 😅. Love that line.