RESOURCES
“If you alone found out what the lie was, then you’re probably right—it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed.”
– Ishmael
Michael’s uproarious giggle still echoes…laughter is indeed the best medicine. Have a dose from his GALLOWS HUMOR FOLDER
AUDIOBOOKS
All books recorded by Michael Dowd are are shared for free with permission of the author.
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PDF DOCUMENTS and BOOKS
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RECOMMENDED BOOKS*
*Even though Michael no longer recommended his own book, we consider it worthy to include.
CHANNELS
Launched in March ’24, the Post-doom Youtube Channel is now housing new content going forward. Playlists include the 2024 Videos of the Month and some unearthed Michael Dowd works. Please subscribe and help spread the word. Think something should be on it? Let the Post-doom team know.
How are we to live in the time of collapse? In this period of crisis and catastrophe, our comfort is to be with other people who understand what we’re going through. Hosted by David Baum, the Collapse Club channel is a home for public conversations among people who are seeking an authentic understanding of the world and themselves, and who are aligning their lives with their understanding.
Environmental Coffeehouse, hosted by Sandy Schoelles, is a clearinghouse for all things under the environmental umbrella. There is a wide variety of information under that umbrella, from scientific data showing the demise of the human species to climate change deniers who feel that humans have no control over, or responsibility for the planetary ecosystem at all. We hope to be a valuable, diverse resource for our followers.
The Great Story is the Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow channel. The earliest playlists entail videos of their presentations (2005 – 2013) throughout the USA of their work on the epic of evolution as our modern-day great story. This phase of their work is also archived at thegreatstory website. In recent years, their videos entail climate activism and Post-doom conversations and educational support.
Dean Walker hosts this elegant blend of the sober data of our world through intimate conversations with collapse-aware thought leaders and creatives as they face our predicament-laden world. How much beauty and poetry will we unleash as we reconnect ourselves to the primary sources of meaning in human life? (Our Deeper Selves, Other Beings, and Earth herself.)
FILMS
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This film is here as an example of passionate defense of a landbase, but not a suggestion to go to prison for it
Excellent documentary (based on same name book) for deeply understanding our energy preciament
Netflix series with wonderful humor and messaging touching on many end times themes
Because we just gotta keep laughing
Michael Dowd’s favorite feature film he referenced often
A breath-taking exploration into the magical, mysterious, and medicinal world of fungi we cannot be separated from.
Four fabulous laughter and tear-filled seasons (worth the full ride!) to explore death and what potentially comes after
An excellent journey to learn from an Octopus what the Dalai Lama also teaches: we are all Same-Same.
Beautiful passionate ocean documentary made by a strong young female with a powerful voice
PODCASTS
Breaking Down Collapse takes the complex concepts surrounding the ultimate collapse of modern industrial society and simplifies them so they’re easier to learn. The compelling evidence for our inevitable decline is introduced by collapse-aware Kory to his good friend, Kellan, who probably doesn’t realize what he signed up for! Skeptical? Gear up for a paradigm shift!
The Emerald explores the human experience through a vibrant lens of myth, story, and imagination. Brought to life through the wise, wild, and humorous vision of Joshua Michael Schrei. The podcast advocates for an imaginative vision of human life and human discourse as it questions deep underlying assumptions about societal progress.
The Green Flame is a Deep Green Resistance podcast that brings you revolutionary analysis, practical skills, and artistic expression from the grassroots movement to dismantle global industrial civilization.
Award-winning journalist and author Dahr Jamail hosts in-depth interviews with leaders from around the world to uncover Indigenous ways of reckoning with environmental and societal breakdown. If you’re concerned about climate change, species extinctions, loss of social cohesion, the specter of collapse, and other aspects of the Great Unraveling, then tune in for insight and wisdom gained from lived experience and cultural memory.
You are living the latest chapter in a 10,000 year story. Join storyteller Alex Leff on a search for better ways to understand and more clearly experience the incredible, terrifying, and ridiculous world we live in. The first stop on our quest through a landscape of ideas and stories is the 1992 novel Ishmael by Daniel Quinn about a telepathic gorilla with great hope for humanity
Planet: Critical is the podcast for a world in crisis. We face severe climate, energy, economic and political breakdown. Journalist Rachel Donald interviews those confronting the crisis, revealing what’s really going on, and what if anything can be done.
The Progressive Page Turner brings author interviews with compelling answers to the big questions of our time. Marianne Barisonek is a recent Florida transplant. She brings with her many years experience with community radio. “I believe community radio can ask crucial and honest questions that corporate media doesn’t want to ask.” Visit her substack here
WEBSITES
COLLAPSEWIKI is a comprehensive collection of collapse resources, not intended to be inclusive of every individual, aspect, or item, nor is it complete. The site is maintained by the moderators of r/Collapse and volunteers in the subreddit community.
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Daily updates on climate change and the global economy. A quick current look at what’s happening around the world, it was Michael Dowd’s favorite daily newsreel.
This website is the home of the research, writing, and activism of Shaun Chamberlin, who works with a wide network of friends and partners around the world. Their projects epitomize the Dark Optimism perspective: one which is not afraid of seeking the truth, even when that truth is unpalatable and overwhelming.
Dedicated to embodying and enabling loving responses to our predicament, which includes: societal collapse arising from the climate emergency, global economic and environmental crises, species extinction, soil degradation, extreme weather events, forced migration, and historical-systemic-planet-people abuses.
David Baum’s look at the disaster, trying to understand what it means. What does the tragedy of history tell us about humans? About God? About the astonishing and dangerous activity of our fevered minds? Is there a way to make words suffice on the precipice of a screaming descent into silence?
The 14 billion year epic of Cosmos, Earth, Life, and Humanity told in meaningful, inspiring ways. Explore the teachings and collected resources of Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd exploring the Epic of Evolution.
An activist platform dedicated to socio-ecological justice in the face of inevitable and irreversible global collapse. Just Collapse advocates for a just collapse and planned collapse to avert the worst outcomes that will follow an otherwise unplanned, reactive collapse.
Learning Earthways
Join George on his blog as he explores ways to live in harmony with Earth and explore ideas for alternative, sustainable societies. This journey involves exploration, experimentation, and trial and error to recover lost knowledge and skills, as well as reconnecting with other species in the natural world.
Dean Spillane-Walker’s reflections on the calling of our times to reconnect with the sources of meaning and belonging in human life. The immense costs of our collective disconnection from the web of life have become painfully obvious in every aspect of life on Earth.
Karen Perry, a creature born wild and free, taught that she wasn’t by a dominant omnicidal culture, shares her truth about GIC (Global Industrial Civilization) and its impacts on the biosphere we all depend on for life. She also aims to support others in getting their own oxygen masks on to face our collective predicament, in an attempt to strive towards collapsing well.
As a consultant, senior-level advisor, teacher, speaker, and formal leader, Meg has worked around the globe with all levels, ages, and types of organizations, leaders, and activists. Her work now focuses on developing and supporting leaders globally as Warriors for the Human Spirit.
Kavi offers unedited, stream-of-consciousness poetry about ecological collapse and what it means to be alive to witness the 6th mass extinction.
Andrea’s goal is to provide a comprehensive yet concise introduction that has the potential to promote a more informed conversation of civilization’s predicament. Visit her YouTube Channel here
Problems, Predicaments, and Technology
Erik Michaels’ blog is mainly focused on Ecological Overshoot, Abrupt Climate Disruption, and Energy/Resource Decline (generally associated with peak oil and collapse). A myriad of other predicaments closely associated with these three are also examined.
Collapse Club convener Susan Porter’s hub for a blending of her personal writing and artwork exploring how to be emotionally resilient in times of change.
Here on Susana Rinderle’s blog you’ll find dozens of articles that provide you with the insight, inspiration and practical next steps you seek. There’s plenty here on multiple topics from personal growth to social change, from leadership to “doing diversity right.”
Eliot Jacobson, Ph.D. writes about the fall of global industrial civilization and the sad times that lie ahead. The goal is to educate as well as to move people towards positive action within themselves and in the world.