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221:, to mock various groups online. One of these caricatures was "Doomers", 20-somethings who had "simply stopped trying". The meme first appeared on 4chan's /r9k/ board in September 2018. The image typically depicts the Wojak character in dark clothing, including a dark beanie, smoking a cigarette. "Doomer" themed playlists, featuring this wojak along with slowed down music edits (often involving post-punk or rock) reached popularity on YouTube, especially during the Covid-19 lockdowns. The archetype often embodies 1999: 1667: 2019: 2009: 1655: 27: 422:
Further investigations have not only revealed these oil and gas industry PR tactics, but that they have infiltrated many many top university climate programs. Congressional hearings on April 30, 2024 reveal the PR pushed by these oil companies through the climate schools in conjunction with major media organizations. Discourses of delay are prominent in the documentations revealed.
197:, modify their homes for the apocalypse, and to consider not having children. Not all "peakniks" subscribed to a fatalist outlook. U.S. Army Ranger Chris Lisle, when writing recommendations on how to survive the societal collapse, suggested that fellow doomers "adopt a positive attitude," because, as he put it, "Hard times don't last, hard people do." 421:
Social science has debunked this theory since around 2019, where many studies show that humans react differently to different messaging, and for most the level of concern expressed should match the level of danger. Health science also informs that effect is powerful in motivating change in behavior.
313:". As of March 2020, the paper had been downloaded more than a half-million times. In it, Bendell claims there is no chance to avert a near-term breakdown in human civilization, but that people must instead prepare to live with and prepare for the 414:. In "Discourses of climate delay" presented by Lamb, et al in the journal Global Sustainability, the category of "Surrender" was elicited from study of publications on delay tactics used by industry public relations. A 2023 survey by 296:. In addition to popularizing the term among general audiences, Franzen's piece was highly popular among online Doomer communities, including the Facebook groups Near Term Human Extinction Support Group and Abrupt Climate Change. 324:
described Bendell's paper as "pseudo-scientific nonsense", saying Bendell's "doomist framing" was a "dangerous new strain of crypto-denialism" that would "lead us down the very same path of inaction as outright
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Teaching students about concepts worth striving for – such as radical hope or solarpunk – can prompt them to think of solutions to problems rather than feeling indifference or helplessness.
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that the doomer meme depicts young men who "are no longer pursuing friendships or relationships, and get no joy from anything because they know that the world is coming to an end."
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Peters, Ellen; Boyd, Patrick; Cameron, Linda D; Contractor, Noshir; Diefenbach, Michael A; Fleszar-Pavlovic, Sara; Markowitz, Ezra; Salas, Renee N; Stephens, Keri K (25 May 2022).
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as "a quickly sketched cartoon woman with black hair, black clothes, and sad eyes ringed with red makeup". The doomer girl character often appears in
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A related meme format, "doomer girl", began appearing on 4chan in January 2020, and it soon moved to other online communities, including
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where members discussed the theorized point in time when oil extraction would stop due to lack of resources, followed by
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to signal the beginning of the artists' group the Dark Mountain Project, critiques the idea of progress. According to
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argues that the paper is an example of "climate doomism" that "relies heavily on misinterpreted climate science".
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have related doomerism to Malthusianism, an economic philosophy holding that human resource use will eventually
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titled "What if We Stopped Pretending?". The piece made an argument against the possibility of averting
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Canadian self-identified doomer Paul Chefurka hosted a website where he encouraged his readers to eat
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The term "doomer" was reported in 2008 as being used in early internet peaknik communities, as on
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suggests that promotion of inaction due to fear, doomerism, or fatalism is relatively minor.
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as "the closest thing to a manifesto for a generation of self-described 'climate doomers
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Person who believes global problems will inevitably cause the collapse of civilization
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Informal activist-style writing, several lines with serious allegations not cited.
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Future scenarios : how communities can adapt to peak oil and climate change
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interacting with the original doomer character. The format is often compared to
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describes sustainability professor Jem Bendell's self-published paper
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Nicholas, Thomas; Hall, Galen; Schmidt, Colleen (14 July 2020).
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are people who are extremely pessimistic or fatalistic about
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The term "doomer" was popularized in commentary surrounding
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Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy
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