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Dobby Does Doom

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Discussing responses to climate change and the collapse of global industrial civilisation due to ecological overshoot. Doomer. Permaculture designer. https://adriandobby.substack.com/

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 11d

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...

Keystone Humanity: A Guide to Reclaiming Our Ecological Role in Collapse

Finding our place in a damaged world

open.substack.com

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 9h

😂🤣 This piece was especially for those guys, and the liberals

Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 20h

🤣😂😅 That Polanski guy from the Greens could turn things around 🙄

Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 22h

😂🤣 If that's what you took away, I'm an even worse writer than I thought 🤣

#WASF

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Piglet, I'm grateful for you too mate :)

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 1d

Hi Thomas. I guess most people don't want to admit that our comfortable lives in the global north are trashing the planet - let alone built on exploitation of the global south.

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Ian!

Good morning sir

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 1d

This is hilarious 😂

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 1d

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...

Capitalism and Collapse: Why Ending Capitalism Won’t Save Us

Abolish capitalism tomorrow, and collapse would come even quicker

adrianlambert.substack.com

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 7d

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

#overshoot #collapse

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d

Bolder. Effective.And surging!

Come on @greenparty.org.uk team.

Let's go!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party is louder and more left wing than ever.

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 7d

"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?...

Exposing The Dark Side of America's AI Data Center Explosion

YouTube video by Business Insider

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah mate, I saw. Times are tough for the 3rd rock from the sun....

Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 11d

Keystone Humanity: A Guide to Reclaiming Our Ecological Role in Collapse

Finding our place in a damaged world

open.substack.com

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Rees Cat Ophuls @reescatophuls.bsky.social · 18d

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

Graph purpose: Show both the individual days of global warming, and the longer term trends.

X-Axis: Years, from Jan 1940 until 7th Feb 2025
Y-Axis: Cumulative number of days above different global warming milestones (Log scale, from 0 to 10,000 days). For the unwary, beware the Log Scale !!
Additional information: The Dates at which the Global Warming trend line (Loess 30 year window trend line) crossed different Global Warming Milestones. E.g. by 22nd September 2025, there have cumulatively been 800 individual days above 1.5C Global Warming.
E.g. in August 1985, the Loess trend line for the Global Mean Surface Temperature Anomaly crossed 0.5C. Note that these dates shift a bit as new data comes in. For instance, Summer 2025 a bit cooler (than 2023/2024), and this was enough to shift the date for passing 1.00C from Dec 2011 to Jan 20212 (in practice this was a shift of 3 days).

The Graphs includes Global Warming Milestones: 0.5C, 0.75C, 1C, 1.25C, 1.5C, 1.75C, 2.0C

Data used: Copernicus ERA5 with 1850-1900 baseline (Pre-Industrial)
Graph Design Details on website:
https://parisagreementtemperatureindex.com/1000-day-climate-graphic-design/
Note the log scale on the Y-Axis. This allows the graph to show that the number of days above 0.5C, 0.75C etc ... keep going up, but it allows the focus to go on the higher temperatures that are happening more recently.

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 19d

This is a good one 👌

Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 21d

That's insane dude. I've left 2 acres completely untouched for a few years which has helped. A lot more bees and butterflies compared to last year but shifting baseline syndrome.....

Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 21d

Yeah Jan. The uptick in local biodioversity has been bewildering (and delightful) this Summer but it also makes me dread the next barren Summer..

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks so much for this 🙏

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 22d

Love you attitude dude 😍

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 22d

Both feel..... spot on 😅

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 22d

But I want to play with them now 😂

All good here mate, hope you are too

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 22d

It's because there are no new doomers, just the veterans. Could be the decline in population IQ... Any other theories? Hi Ian 👋

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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 22d

Morning Andrew 😀

Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 22d

My favourite..

Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 22d

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

Blue Planet Society @blueplanetsociety.bsky.social · 22d

Historic High Seas Treaty is a "turning point for humanity"

A United Nations treaty designed to protect the marine life and ecosystems of the high seas has received the 60th and final ratification needed to come into force.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle

www.nytimes.com

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