Ten Inevitables: Post Doom, No Gloom (Synthesis/Culmination)

This "All You Can Eat Buffet" version is the most complete and in-depth video I have ever created. This is a visually rich and information dense experience and includes the most credible and important resources available for understanding where we are, how we got here, and what is possible and no longer possible going forward. It also (importantly!) includes practical tools and insights for staying sane, sober, and grateful to be alive in increasingly crazy-making times. (See definition of "hopium" below.)
THESIS (2-hours): Confusion and suffering prevail without a life-centered view of ecology, energy, and history. Enthralled by gee-whiz technology, and blind to TEN COLLAPSE-RELATED INEVITABILITIES, we stumble into a future of ECOLOGICAL & SOCIETAL CERTAINTIES that most people cannot see, or will vehemently deny...
1. Most people will have a hard time trusting how and why our civilization is collapsing.
2. Abrupt climate change (rapid 2C+) locks in biospheric collapse and extinctions.
3. Tipping points already crossed will be falsely framed as “still avoidable”.
4. Without “Assisted Migration” love-in-action, most tree species will go extinct.
5. Without urgent collective action, there will be dozens of nuclear meltdowns.
6. As our biospheric and societal predicament worsens, so will our mental health.
7. Most people will only reluctantly relinquish their faith in “the Almighty We”.
8. If you proselytize only the 'doom' side of collapse reality, expect to be shunned.
9. Most people will crave distraction - and virtually anything that offers “hope”.
10. Elite universities, the IPCC, mainstream media, politicians, and bestselling authors will remain first-rate LEGAL hopium dealers.
DEFINITION OF HOPIUM: "A comforting vision of the future that requires breaking the laws of physics, biology, or ecology (such as thinking that we can slow, stop, or reverse the Great Acceleration of biospheric collapse.) Hopium is especially dangerous to one’s mental and emotional health because, while it reliably provides short-term relief, without early treatment it even more reliably is followed by long-term grief and occasionally even severe depression when reality inevitably bites. But even more importantly, unless millions of us can break the hopium habit, I fear we will not have the collective will to do what we need to do to avoid being evil on a geological scale - i.e., by failing to ensure as few nuclear meltdown as possible and assisting as many tree species as possible to pass through this bottleneck."
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PRESENTER: Michael Dowd: www.postdoom.com/ AND michaeldowd.org/
TIME-CODED TABLE OF CONTENTS
01:11 Introduction to "Ten Inevitables"
04:17 List of the Ten Inevitables
05:44 "Benefits of Trusting What Is Inevitable: Collapse Acceptance" (list of 7)
07:29 INEVITABLE 1. "Most people will have a hard time trusting how and WHY our civilization is collapsing."
24:24 PAUSE
26:40 "Five Stages of Awakening: Climbing the Ladder of Awareness"
45:54 PAUSE
46:10 INEVITABLE 1. "Most people will have a hard time trusting HOW and why our civilization is collapsing."
01:02:01 INEVITABLE 2. "Abrupt climate change (rapid 2C+) locks in biospheric collapse and extinctions."
01:05:28 PAUSE
01:05:44 INEVITABLE 3. "Tipping points already crossed will be falsely framed as 'still avoidable'."
01:15:17 INEVITABLE 4. "Without 'Assisted Migration' love-in-action, most tree species will go extinct."
01:17:21 INEVITABLE 5. "Without urgent collective action, there will be dozens of nuclear meltdowns."
01:22:33 PAUSE
01:22:50 INEVITABLE 6. "As our biospheric and societal predicament worsens, so will our mental health."
01:23:50 "Universal Human Needs" (list of 9)
01:32:02 "Benefits of Truting What Is Inevitable: Collapse Acceptance" (list of 7)
01:33:05 INEVITABLE 7. "Most people will only reluctantly relinquish their faith in 'the Almighty We'."
01:37:47 INEVITABLE 8. "If you proselytize only the 'doom' side of collapse reality, expect to be shunned." Including definitions of Doom and Post-Doom.
01:40:08 INEVITABLES 9 & 10. "Most people will crave distraction - and virtually anything that offers 'hope'." • "Elite universities, IPCC, MSM, & pols will remain first-rate legal hopium dealers." Definition of "hopium" and "the secular religion of perpetual progress."
01:47:26 "Progressing Toward Ecocide" (list of 4)
01:53:42 "Honor Your Sadness and Grief" (stages of grief and "finding the gift")
01:54:36 "Gallows humor" (examples of)
01:55:40 Concluding section: rereading of the Thesis; the list of 10 Inevitables; Benefits of Collapse Acceptance (Dowd's list of 7 and video of Karen Perry's list of 15).