This LIFE-CENTERED (not human-centered) "post-doom" playlist is collapse-aware and offers emotional and spiritual nourishment to those who see what's coming and choose to honor their grief through heartful witness and investing in what is regenerative and pro-future. These diverse thought leaders remind us that, as things contract, NOW is a perfect time to (A) stand with young people in their fight for intergenerational justice, (B) prepare with family, friends, and neighbors for increasingly difficult times, (C) cultivate awareness and deep feeling for the sacredness of life, impermanence, and death, and (D) engage in non-violent direct action not because we are confident that we will be as effective as we hope, but because we want to look ourselves in the mirror (and look young people in the eye) and feel we've done our part to nudge things in a pro-future direction with as much humility, grace, love, and generosity of soul as we were capable.

RIP Homo colossus

Post-doom regenerative conversation exploring overshoot grief, grounding, and gratitude, with Paul Chefurka and host, Michael Dowd; edited by Connie Barlow.

Paul Chefurka - Post-doom with Michael Dowd

TEXT: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-doomed-to-go-extinct/

Henry Gee - Humans Are Doomed To Go Extinct - 12:28:21

TEXT: https://www.ecosophia.net/whispers-of-the-fall/

JMG - Whispers Of The Fall - 5:6:22

TEXT: (please support publisher and author and buy a paperback; it's worth it!): https://www.amazon.com/Electrifying-Titanic-Shipwreck-Industrial-Civilisation/dp/B09KF62GDS

William Ophuls - Electrifying The Titanic BOOK

TEXT: https://expressiveegg.substack.com/p/it-really-doesnt-matter
Darren's "Expressive Egg" website: https://expressiveegg.org/

Darren Allen - It Really Doesn't Matter

"Breaking Together" by Jem Bendell is published May 9th 2023. In Chapter 1 "Economic Collapse - a time of limits and contradictions" Professor Bendell provides a summary of the economic data and theory that supports the view that the collapse of industrial consumer societies has already begun. The chapter is narrated by Matthew Slater. To read more about the book:
https://jembendell.com/2023/04/08/breaking-together-a-freedom-loving-response-to-collapse/

Economic Collapse - Ch 1 of Breaking Together, by Jem Bendell

TEXT: https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to-the-apocalypse-7790666afde7
PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H4n6g-fCD7qAiSVVd4mCLCAJvZAQxv55/view

Sam Hall - The Busy Workers Handbook To The Apocalypse

Eye Of The Storm (Ch 5) Befriending Grief - Final

Eye Of The Storm (Ch 4) Practical Emotional Support - Final

Eye Of The Storm (Ch 3) Stories For Courage In Dark Times - Final

Eye Of The Storm (Ch 2) Stories Shape Us - Final - B

Eye Of The Storm (Ch 14) Endings Are Beginnings - Final

Eye Of The Storm (Ch 13) In The Meantime - Final

Eye Of The Storm (Ch 12) Planting Seeds - Final

Eye Of The Storm (Ch 11) Young People And Those Who Care About Them - Final

Eye Of The Storm (Ch 10) No More Flying Solo - Final

Eye Of The Storm (Ch 1) Facing The Storm - Final

Sir John Pasha's vitally important and insightful analysis of the common patterns of the rise and fall of empires.

Glubb Pasha - The Fate of Empires and the Search for Survival

TEXT: http://thegreatstory.org/overshoot-overview.pdf
A fabulous overview of William R. Catton, Jr's famous book, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change

Overshoot - overview / summary by Peter Montague

TEXT: https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Progress-Toward-Sustainable-Future/dp/1611684161
A well written and vitally important articulation of the ecological worldview necessary for genuine 'deep sustainability' and a devastating critique of human-centered notions of "progress". Perfect companion to William R. Catton Jr,'s masterful book, "Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change". See here: http://thegreatstory.org/sustainability-audios.html#catton and listen here: https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/sets/william-r-catton-jr

Tom Wessels - The Myth of Progress

Overshoot Catton 1

Catton Overshoot 1

Overshoot Catton 3

Catton Overshoot 3

Overshoot Catton 2

Catton Overshoot 2

TEXT: https://www.amazon.com/Immoderate-Greatness-Why-Civilizations-Fail/dp/1479243140
Truly a "must read"! 
ALSO SEE: https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/sets/william-ophuls-apologies-to-the-grandchildren
AND: https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/sets/william-ophuls-1
AND: http://thegreatstory.org/sustainability-audios.html#ophuls

Immoderate Greatness

William Ophuls - BOOK: Immoderate Greatness

John Michael Greer is a deeply ecological, historical thinker and gifted writer.

Collapse Now

JMG (1) Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush

William Ophuls is the most important thinker/writer on an ecological interpretation and approach to politics.

Plato's Revenge

Ophuls - Plato's Revenge (A) 1-5

TEXT: https://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf ALSO SEE: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-03-17/deep-adaptation-post-sustainability-and-the-possibility-of-societal-collapse/ AS WELL AS: http://www.scientistswarning.org/deep-adaptation-a-map-for-navigating-climate-tragedy/
My recording of Jem Bendell's "must read" or "must listen to" paper, DEEP ADAPTATION: A MAP FOR NAVIGATING CLIMATE TRAGEDY.

Deep Adaptation, Jem Bendell (Dowd narration) - A Map For Navigating Climate Tragedy

TEXT: http://www.approachingthelimits.com/LadderOfAwareness.html
Here I have narrated my favorite posts from Paul Chefurka's site Approaching the Limits. (The first few I mispronounced his last name. :-)

Paul Chefurka - Climbing The Ladder Of Awareness

TEXT: http://web.archive.org/web/20210306102016/http://collapsosaurus-rex.com/collapse-and-the-stages-of-grief/
ALSO SEE: http://web.archive.org/web/20210306102507/http://collapsosaurus-rex.com/
A real gem ... one of Connie's and my favorites.

Collapsosaurus Rex - Collapse and Stages of Grief

Here's Catherine Ingram's narration of her own 'must read' essay. It's excellent!
TEXT: www.CatherineIngram.com/facingextinction
ALSO HERE: www.FacingExtinction.com.au This is a superbly written, big hearted essay regarding accepting inevitable contraction and collapse (and possible extinction) and still having a great life, healthy relationships, peace of mind, and motivation to lovingly act on behalf of life.

Facing Extinction - narrated by Catherine Ingram

TEXT: https://www.amazon.com/Entropia-Life-Beyond-Industrial-Civilisation/dp/0987588400
PLEASE support the author and publisher by buying a paperback; you'll want to mark it up. This is a fabulous book!!  
DESCRIPTION: When industrial civilization collapsed in the third decade of the 21st century, a community living on a small island in the South Pacific Ocean found itself permanently isolated from the rest of the world. With no option but to build a self-sufficient economy with very limited energy supplies, this community set about creating a simpler way of life that could flourish into the deep future. Determined above all else to transcend the materialistic values of the Old World, they made a commitment to live materially simple lives, convinced that this was the surest path to genuine freedom, peace, and sustainable prosperity. Seven decades later, in the year 2099, this book describes the results of their remarkable living experiment.

Entropia - Samuel Alexander

Stephen Jenkinson in a "post-doom" conversation with Michael Dowd and Barbara Cecil. (Recorded October 2019)
https://orphanwisdom.com/
https://www.postdoom.com/

Stephen Jenkinson - Post-Doom Conversation with Dowd and Cecil

Published in The New York Times Sunday Review on November 15, 2019
TEXT: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/sunday-review/depression-climate-change.html

Cara Buckley-NYTimes - Apocalypse Got You Down? Maybe This Will Help

MAHB - Megan Seibert - Planet Of The Humans Review - Shining A Light On The Energy Black Box

JMG - The - Long - Descent - 1

TEXT: https://www.amazon.com/After-Progress-Reason-Religion-Industrial/dp/0865717915

JMG - After-Progress (1)

MM - Delusions - And - Contradictions - 1.0

Michael Dowd died October 2023. This soundcloud list is a substantial part of his legacy. Here he shares, via his voice, the major books, blogs, and other texts that instructed his own worldview shift into recognizing the multiple causes of the civilizational collapse underway and wisdom for moving into a postdoom perspective of clarity, calm, and compassionate love-in-action. As a Postdoom pastor, Michael aimed to support others in deeply adapting to abrupt climate change and societal and ecological breakdowns. Websites: https://www.postdoom.com and http://thegreatstory.org

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