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Slow Motion Apocalypse
by William P. MeyersTherefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
I'd face it as a wise man would
And train for ill and not for good.
—A Shropshire Lad, A. E. Houseman
I can't say exactly when I started using the term Slow Motion Apocalypse. Most people think the Apocalypse comes suddenly, as it does on video, perhaps with a disease or zombie attack or internet failure. But, like other old people, I have watched the natural world fall apart over decades. When that continued deterioration could cause civilization to collapse or at least contract severely is hard to predict. In any case, turns out I did not invent the term Slow Motion Apocalypse, as the music band Grotus used that as a title to an album. So I will include a link to the band, links to other writings by myself, and sources of information. Also, the term was used in a back cover promo blurb, in 2014, for the novel The Peripheral by William Gibson, but not, apparently, in the novel itself. Some prefer slow-motion apocalypse, but in Gibson's novel it is called the Jackpot.
Over and over: Drought delivers a big blow to wildlife [11/18/2024]
The U.S. is a net importer of food, now: US Agriculture Trade Deficit Widens [5/30/2024]
Slow Motion Apocalypse Broils Mexican Spider Monkeys [5/21/2024]
The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory Bioscience, October 24, 2023
Denman Glacier: Possible Antarctic Tipping Point The Washington Post, January 18, 2023
Heat Waves Are Moving Slower and Staying Longer New York Times, March 29, 2024 [free article]
Australia Official Report on the State of the Environment
Darwin Predicted a Slow Motion Apocalypse [April 26, 2022]
Triage Plans for the Slow Motion Apocalypse [March 20, 2022]
NASA Says Famine Is Ahead [November 2, 2021]
Green New Deal v. Slow Motion Apocalypse [May 20, 2021]
Great Salt Lake Drying Up [New York Times, 6/7/2022]
Older articles can be found below the Resources section
Resources:
Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Graphs (NSIDC)
Demographics of the United States
Energy Consumption per person by nation
Global Temperature Rise (NASA)
Limits to Growth Study, 2020 Update
Earth.nullschool.net, current supercomputer data on earth, visualized
Adaptive Strategies in a Slow-Motion Apocalypse by Allana Ross
What the U.S. Intelligence (Spy) Agencies think: Global Trends, A More Contested World
Prefer video?
Time to Get Real About climate Change with Sabine Hossenfelder
Slow Motion Apocalypse Comes to Coast of Spain (youtube) [4/22/2024]
Now or Never: Climate Warriors (youtube) [5/29/2024]
More of my thoughts, with a few others:
Crappy Thanksgiving in the Slow Motion Apocalypse [November 20, 2020]
Smoke, Seattle, Apocalypse [September 11, 2020]
Just Another Day in the Slow-Motion Apocalypse [August 25, 2020]
At Ground Zero of the Slow Apocalypse [March 28, 2020]
Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe Out Six Billion People [September 18, 2019, @ The Tyee]
Computation as Cancer [November 27, 2019]
Wonderful World of One Billion [December 10, 2018]
Getting to the Wonderful World of One Billion [December 16, 2018]
United States in Wonderful World [December 28, 2018]
Global Warming: Attacking Supply Does Not Cut Demand [March 12, 2018]
Coal Slap in the Face [February 5, 2018]
Why Global Warming is Helping Coal [June 26, 2017]
Global Warming, China, and Fairness [May 29, 2017]
Would Socialism Prevent Global Warming? [June 18, 2016]
Judge nations by per capital carbon [December 13, 2015]
Denial, Weather, Food, and People [September 12, 2015]
Minimum Wage v. Global Warming [July 18, 2015]
Cap and Trade Children [August 26, 2014]
A crowded new year [January 1, 2014]
The Air Conditioned Nighmare [June 8, 2009]Charles Darwin Was God's Prophet [June 17, 2008]
Polar Bears, Wheat Futures, and Nuclear Reactors [October 2, 2007]
Duck and Cover Environmentalism Part 1: Carbon Credits [March 23, 2007]
Food and Population [January 31, 2007]
Population and Global Warming [January 25, 2007]
Population Incentives [January 6, 2007]
Population, Population, Population [December 13, 2006]
China's Population Issues [link to People's Daily Online]
I Wait [a short poem]