Has anyone read “The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse”? The document/post is available here.
What are your thoughts on it? If you just look at the conclusion, it sounds doomy, however, if you read the whole thing, it seems to be based on facts. I haven’t read the whole thing, I skimmed through it though.
I am interested in hearing your thoughts.
This is incredibly misnamed. Neither a “worker’s” nor a “handbook” nor “to the apocalypse”. It has no consideration for the needs of workers, no proposals for action, and no advice for surviving change.
Where are the guides on how to facilitate mass migration? Where are the guides for agriculture in the absence of international supply lines and fertilizer? Where are the checklists of supplies for individuals, small communities, and large communities?
I am a “doomer” too. But I understand that we can be the difference between 9 billion and 2 billion deaths, between 98% of species and 80% of species going extinct, and it would be nice if a handbook to the apocalypse helped in any way to bring those numbers down.
Where are the guides on how to facilitate mass migration?
Lifeboat ethics suggests we won’t, and probably shouldn’t.
Where are the guides for agriculture in the absence of international supply lines and fertilizer?
Permaculture: A designer’s guide by Bill Mollison.
Where are the checklists of supplies for individuals, small communities, and large communities?
Billions will die. ✓
Where are the guides on how to facilitate mass migration? Where are the guides for agriculture in the absence of international supply lines and fertilizer? Where are the checklists of supplies for individuals, small communities, and large communities?
I don’t know? Where are they? Post them. Create them.
If all you have to say of the 57 pages of the document is “the title is wrong”: Thank you for your contribution.
Supposedly written for the “Busy Worker” but it’s a 78 min read about how hopelessly fucked we are
Most of it are graphs. I don’t think it takes that long to read. But even if it does, it should be read. Read it over a week, or two, or however long. Instead of doomscrolling, doomread. At least you are not giving money to pedophiles by reading this.
I don’t like how he seems to quote (positively) Noam Chosmky so much. By the end of the article, it ceases to be fact-based and becomes more opinionated.
He makes a few points that I disagree with, namely: “the whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent and who think for themselves and who don’t know how to be submissive and so on - because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions” (This is from a Chomsky’s book). I 100% disagree with this. I just don’t see people creating an educational system that filters out good thinkers and smart people. If it does, it is surely failing. (I am in Europe). Ask any teacher what sort of training they received to filter out those people. They will tell you none. Ask any teacher what is the reason that one fails in the educational system. Not one teacher will tell you “oh, that person is too smart, too independent, for our current educational system. He needs to be dumber if he wishes to pass.”. Come on…
I wish he would have kept the document fact based. This is surely an attacking point that may be used to detract the rest of it.