{"id":13633,"date":"2025-01-13T12:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T19:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13633"},"modified":"2025-02-16T12:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T19:38:14","slug":"pessimistic-apocalypsism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/01\/13\/pessimistic-apocalypsism\/","title":{"rendered":"Pessimistic Apocalypsism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/world-end-apocalypse-human-civilization-collapse-b2678651.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Independent UK <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The end of the world as we know it? Theorist warns humanity is teetering between collapse and advancement<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>When will human civilization end for 8.2 billion Earthlings? It could be happening right now&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/author\/julia-musto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Julia Musto<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"R.E.M. - It&#039;s The End Of The World\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z0GFRcFm-aY?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When is the end for humankind? Whether it\u2019s by a nuclear holocaust, a result of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/climate-change\/ocean-tipping-point-climate-change-b2654977.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exceeding a critical climate threshold<\/a>, at the hands of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tech\/ai-robot-artist-generative-artificial-intelligence-b2277423.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">artificial intelligence-powered robots<\/a>, or the\u00a0<em>\u201cDon\u2019t Look Up\u201d<\/em>\u00a0asteroid, the question plagues our thoughts, our research, and our Facebook rants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, one theorist warns that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/climate-change\/news\/climate-change-global-warming-end-human-civilisation-research-a8943531.html\">the human civilization<\/a>&nbsp;of 8.2 billion people is at a critical junction: teetering between what he forecasts will be authoritarian collapse and superabundance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIndustrial civilisation is facing \u2018inevitable\u2019 decline as it is replaced by what could turn out to be a far more advanced \u2018postmaterialist\u2019 civilisation based on distributed superabundant clean energy. The main challenge is that industrial civilisation is facing such rapid decline that this could derail the emergence of a new and superior \u2018life-cycle\u2019 for the human species\u201d, Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, the bestselling author and journalist who is a distinguished fellow at the UK-based Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems, said in a&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1068196\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/world-end-apocalypse-human-civilization-collapse-b2678651.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Independent<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Independent UK The end of the world as we know it? Theorist warns humanity is teetering between collapse and advancement When will human civilization end for 8.2 billion Earthlings? It could be happening right now&nbsp; by Julia Musto When is the end for humankind? Whether it\u2019s by a nuclear holocaust, a result of\u00a0exceeding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}