Just published a new essay on collapse acceptance. It’s not the optimistic version people usually write. No coping frameworks. No bright-siding. Just an honest look at what actually happens when the worldview dies inside you. #overshoot #collapse Thx :) adrianlambert.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

Climate change is our greatest risk? 🤔 Climate change is not a risk, it’s an issue - one that engulfs every other risk we know how to measure. #overshoot #collapse

The irony of owning the libs on Bluesky is not lost on me! 😂 New from me: The Death of Progress: Liberalism at the End of the World. Thx for reading :) #overshoot #collapse adrianlambert.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Brilliant short explainer covering the double bind of how vital rare earth minerals are to modern industrial civilisation, and how environmentally destructive mining them is. #overshoot #collapse youtu.be/vq4eRtwFjIc?...

Every political ideology is as toxic for the environment as any other. Some may distribute resources more equally, but the aggregate scale of consumption ensures collapse.

Something much shorter than my usual paradigm shifting musings! Capitalism and Collapse: Why Ending Capitalism Won't Save us. Thanks for reading :) #overshoot #collapse adrianlambert.substack.com/p/capitalism...

When you want to make an AI video of a unicorn eating ice cream with Peppa Pig but the noise of the cooling system from the Microsoft data centre next door is keeping you awake at night. #overshoot #collapse

Bolder. Effective. And operating within the same political paradigm driving ecological collapse. #overshoot #collapse

"We need data centres, it's the way the world is going, but you shouldn't put them near people's houses". Virginia resident Normies 😂🤣 #overshoot #collapse youtu.be/t-8TDOFqkQA?...

Collapse is already here. Extinction is the baseline, not the outlier. The only real question is whether humans remain a keystone of collapse, or find ways to stabilise life as we go down. My new essay: Keystone Humanity #overshoot #collapse Thanks for reading :) open.substack.com/pub/adrianla...

800 individual days have been at least 1.5C above the Pre-Industrial baseline Summer 2025 was largely under 1.5C > Will we pass 900 days in 2026? > Will we pass 1000 days by 2027? > Will the Loess 30-yr trend pass 1.5C before 2028? Data: Copernicus ERA5 - Global Mean Surface Temperature Anomaly

I can 100% guarantee you that the destruction of this planet's oceans and biodiversity will continue apace. #overshoot #collapse

The Red Queen tells Alice she must run as fast as she can just to stay in the same place. Biologists use the Red Queen hypothesis to describe co-evolution: predator and prey, parasite and host, locked in a race where standing still means falling behind - and more rapid extinction. 1/4 #collapse

In case you missed it: "Focusing anger on villains can feel righteous, but it keeps us tethered to the illusion that collapse is a matter of bad actors. But the flaw is not in the individuals. It is in the structure of civilisation itself." adrianlambert.substack.com/p/collapse-a...

We don’t replace energy sources, we stack them. Wood → coal → oil → gas → renewables. Each new source adds to the total flow. The “displaced” fossil fuels don’t stay in the ground - they’re burned elsewhere (Jevons paradox). That’s why growth keeps driving emissions higher.. #overshoot #collapse

This is truly calamitous⬇️

Some insightful personal stories here about the path to collapse acceptance. #overshoot #collapse

This is objectively funny 🤣 "CO₂ stored underground will be at risk of leaking back into the atmosphere, study finds." www.ft.com/content/7ace...

Collapse is not hidden because the evidence is weak, but because our culture is organised to prevent us from seeing it. New essay: Collapse and the Consensus Trance Thanks for reading :) #overshoot #collapse adrianlambert.substack.com/p/collapse-a...

Jan. Renewables don’t replace ecosystems, soils, or minerals already consumed. They slow the bleed, but they don’t change the fact that civilisation is organised around perpetual growth on a finite planet. Solar isn’t the myth. The myth is that it can save human civilisation. #overshoot #collapse

I only recently discovered Michael Ruppert. This is an excellent diagnostic of civilisational collapse. #overshoot #collapse youtu.be/ihobiCxOx0k?...

Have you ever wondered what school would have been like if doom had been on the curriculum? Wonder no longer 😂 #overshoot #collapse youtu.be/K-_l9jBGo74?...

Huge thanks to all the OG's here on Doom-Sky for helping my first full-length article reach so many other humans. I really did not think a fully-referenced 10 minute read about how and why we're so f**ked would land as well as it did. #overshoot #collapse adriandobby.substack.com

Monbiot eco-journo-bot status update.... Hopium distribution system: Recharged. Avalanche of techno-optimist bulls**t: Engaged. #overshoot #collapse

Are we in ecological overshoot? Yes. Can civilisation be made sustainable on its resource base? No. Can we support biodiversity on the way down? Locally, yes. Will this be the first civilisation not to collapse? No. #overshoot #collapse

Answer: Ecological overshoot #overshoot #collapse

Legendary collapsologist Sid Smith once said: “Civilisations are a particular type of thing. And like all particular types of things, they have all the defects of their qualities.” This is a really important observation, that I think about often. Let me explain why. 1/6 #overshoot #collapse

'Industrial civilisation is a thermodynamically constrained, overshoot-driven system. Its collapse is not a question of prevention, but of navigating a descent already well underway.' #overshoot #collapse open.substack.com/pub/adriando...

You’d have to be smoking them to believe this will change the trajectory. We’re cutting down forests far faster than the Earth can replenish them. #overshoot #collapse

Collapse can feel overwhelming, too big to hold in view all at once. In this piece, I’ve tried to map it as 'a grand unified theory of doom' (the name of my Substack). Six domains. All connected. All unavoidable. Thanks for reading :) #overshoot #collapse open.substack.com/pub/adriando...

Just launched my Substack. It’s about facing the reality that global industrial civilisation is already in ecological #overshoot and #collapse is already well underway. No hype or hope. Just analysis, evidence, and reflections on how to live in these times. adriandobby.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

Cities cover 2% of Earth yet produce 70% of emissions. Like human feedlots, they pull in food, water, and energy to sustain vast numbers. Fossil fuels have driven population growth, leaving just 4% of mammal biomass in the wild. Without the inflow, cities would empty in days #collapse #overshoot

Collapse is not coming - it’s already here. Four systems (climate, energy, food, and economy) are breaking down together, each amplifying the weaknesses of the others. This is not a prediction - the #collapse of these systems is well underway, and already changing our lives. 1/10 #overshoot

Hello to all the new folk who have followed me recently 👋 Let me tell you about the time I proved with 100% certainty that the human enterprise is already done. #overshoot #collapse

"Warmer surface layers form a cap that suppresses the turbulent mixing needed to replenish nutrients in sun-lit waters. The result, ocean productivity declined by roughly 0.1 billion tons of carbon per year, with the Pacific basin leading the retreat." #collapse www.earth.com/news/oceans-...

Another nail in the coffin of industrial civilisation. #overshoot #collapse apnews.com/article/whal...

You might not be interested in biophysical reality, but biophysical reality is interested in you... #overshoot #collapse

We grow up thinking of ourselves as individuals, with jobs, opinions, and plans. Inside all of us is something older. We are animals, shaped by wind and soil, attuned to weather, and to the sound of birds. Our ecological identity is something we would do well to remember in a time of #collapse 1/5

I fed a few birds at the train station this morning, and a guard told me off! I said, 'It’s their planet too.' He remained unmoved. Industrial systems don’t know what to do with care that isn’t transactional - even a small gesture toward the more-than-human can feel like dissent. #collapse

"Collapse is guaranteeing that the next generation is getting completely screwed to be able to be on their own, let alone afford a house. Many of them are so jaded, they don’t even want to try. Who could blame them? The game is completely stacked." #collapse open.substack.com/pub/chickenf...

Industrial civilisation isn’t collapsing from a single cause. It’s collapsing from a confluence of two forces - energy decline and climate change. Together, they form a feedback loop that industrial civilisation cannot survive - it is a simple matter of physics. 1/10 #overshoot #collapse

There is no 'better technology of the future.' It doesn’t matter whether you power industrial civilisation with oil, wind, or sunlight - it remains a planetary cancer. #overshoot #collapse

Collapse isn’t coming. It’s already unfolding - and we’re nearing inflection points that will reshape how we live. These 7 mainstream news stories aren’t flukes or isolated failures. They’re system-level signals of a civilisation deep in ecological overshoot. 1/10 #overshoot #collapse

The responses here all make sense in terms of hospicing modern civilisation, and also perhaps for coping with climate impacts in the near term, but they won't prevent #collapse from ecological #overshoot

"As far as how human nature relates to where we are now, the train has left the station. Nothing we're going to do is going to prevent the collapse of industrial civilisation, and a correction of our ecological overshoot, one way or another, is going to occur." Sid Smith #overshoot #collapse

Collapse isn’t just a systems event. For humans living in biophysical reality, collapse is an onto-evolutionary process - one that reshapes how we perceive, relate, and exist. This thread is about collapse as ontological transmutation - a shift in human form. 1/10 #overshoot #collapse

"Renewable energy, and industrial civilisation, are one and the same. Desperate measures not to save the planet, but to save our way of life." Jeff Gibbs - Planet of the Humans

There are two realities. One is human constructed and built from stories. The other is biophysical and built from physics. This thread is about where they no longer align, and what that mismatch reveals about our future 1/10 #overshoot #collapse

Has a doomer infiltrated the BBC newsroom?!?! 'It shows just how much global warming caused by the vast emissions of greenhouse gases our civilisation creates is reshaping the country's climate.. and impact on the natural world, with some species suffering.' #collapse www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thermal equilibrium is coming, and it doesn't care what we do now. We focus on current emissions, but the Earth system is still catching up with what we did decades ago. This is the brutal reality of thermal inertia, and why thermal equilibrium is the real #collapse trigger few are ready for. 1/10