2019 November 7, James Purtill, “Breaking up over climate change: My deep dark journey into doomer Facebook”, in Australian Broadcasting Corporation[1], archived from the original on March 3, 2020:
When I read this, I wondered if, like rebellion, doomerism was driven by a conviction that the usual established political processes were not working. Unlike rebellion, however, which looks outward, aiming to overthrow the established order in order to effect a better world, doomerism looks inward.
2020 October 30, Jake Pittaway, “What is Climate Doomerism?”, in The Boar[2], archived from the original on February 28, 2023:
In recent years, finding hope and optimism as an environmentalist has become a struggle: wildfires run rampant, the average rate of global temperature has nearly doubled in the last decade, and authoritative figureheads seem to only exacerbate the damage. With all this taken into account, it is understandable why some people are falling under the philosophy of Doomerism.
2021 November 10, 'The Argument', “Got Climate Doom? Here’s What You Can Do to Actually Make a Difference”, in The New York Times[3], archived from the original on January 1, 2022:
But, as host Jane Coaston says, “as fun as doomerism is, doomerism doesn’t do anything.” So what is an individual to do? Recycle? Compost? Give up meat or flying or plastic straws? Protest in the streets?
2021 December 17, Tim Marcin, “2021 revived pop-punk. It makes perfect sense.”, in Mashable[4], archived from the original on June 1, 2023:
There's something to the fact that pop-punk's resurgence followed the widespread adoption of snark-laden online doomerism, the idea that, well, everything sucks and the impending global emergencies — climate, pandemic, political, etc. — are nearly impossible to reverse. The world's burning, so we might as well laugh.
2022 March 22, Cara Buckley, “‘OK Doomer’ and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late”, in The New York Times[5], archived from the original on May 1, 2022:
“Underneath doomerism and hopeium is the question of ‘Are we going to win?’” Ms. Heglar said. “That’s premature at this point. We need to ask ourselves if we’re going to try. We don’t know till we try if we’re going to win. Whether or not we do, it will still have been worth it.”
2022 April 22, SueEllen Campbell, “Recent readings on climate ‘doomerism’ and science”, in Yale Climate Connections[6], archived from the original on February 25, 2023:
“Doomerism” mistakes a spectrum for a duality, many options for just two, a complex field of possibilities for an either-or choice: We fix everything or we’re all toast. Once you think about this, it’s obvious: the lines and curves on every graph of warming temperatures, rising sea levels, and so on are continuous, with an infinity of points between the best and worst cases, the smallest and largest changes.
2022 May 26, Stephanie Hanes, “How climate change ‘doomerism’ fuels violent extremism”, in The Christian Science Monitor[7], archived from the original on June 3, 2023:
“Climate change scares me,” says Ms. Ruttan Walker. “But this – this is terrifying. It’s what happens when people in the developed world say it’s too late to do anything. Doomerism gives people the permission to do anything they want to survive.”
2022 July 23, Jane Coaston, “Try to Resist the Call of the Doomers”, in The New York Times[8], archived from the original on July 23, 2022:
The apocalyptic thinking seems to go beyond the standard end-times fare of certain sects of evangelical Christians. This new political and social doomerism has become mainstream and is definitely unholy. Instead of the hope of salvation, we are offered lots and lots of tweets.
2022 July 24, Rod Dreher, “Cannibalism Is … Cool?”, in The American Conservative[9], archived from the original on December 08, 2022:
In the NYT, Jane Coaston says don't listen to the doomers. As someone who is somewhere on the doomer spectrum, she has a point about how doomerism can become a self-fulfilling prophecy (by making people feel paralyzed and helpless). On the other hand, if the house is on fire, you don't do people any favors by neglecting to tell them that the warmth coming from down the hall is not because of sunshine.
2022 October 6, Natalia Antonova, “Apathy Keeps Russia’s Death Cult Alive”, in The Bulwark[10], archived from the original on May 31, 2023:
This isn’t to say that I console myself with the myth of a horde of “good Russians” who will soon fix their screwed-up country. The Russian death cult is vast and strong. It will take much more than toppling Putin—or arranging a heart attack for him—to undo decades of repression and learned apathy. This is not my doomerism speaking, it’s just common sense.
2022 November 12, Tony Ho Tran, “What Happens When Even Scientists Get Doom-Pilled?”, in The Daily Beast[11], archived from the original on March 28, 2023:
The trend of climate doomerism has been on the rise in recent years, typified by a bleak outlook and general hopelessness when it comes to climate change news. Instead of believing that we can do something to prevent climate disaster, doomers believe that there’s no hope—especially since world leaders have shown time and again they’d rather kowtow to the fossil fuel industry.
2022 December 2, Carlos Moreno-Vega, “Staff Opinion: Accepting that the world is horrible improved my life”, in The Beacon[12], archived from the original on January 30, 2023:
Following months of isolation from my friends and loved ones, hundreds of thousands of deaths from COVID and a slight dependency on alcohol I was developing, you could say I was falling into a deep pit of doomerism.
2023 March 20, Bryan Walsh, “The doomers are wrong about humanity’s future — and its past”, in Vox[13], archived from the original on April 22, 2023:
Though historians still argue over what the writer Jason Crawford calls “the roots of progress,” the fundamental swerve was the belief that, after eons of relatively little meaningful change, the future could actually be different, and better. But the doomerism that risks overtaking us erodes that belief, and undercuts the policies that give it life.
2023 March 30, James Broughel, “We Should Welcome The New AI Doomerism”, in Forbes[14], archived from the original on March 30, 2023:
While the petitioners’ recommendation is both impractical and counterproductive, there is a compelling reason why we should welcome this kind of AI doomerism. Ironically, this reason has nothing to do with the apocalyptic predictions of the doomers. Instead, it involves the likelihood that their message will be self-defeating, which will ultimately make society better off as we move beyond pessimistic rhetoric in general and embrace technological change.
2023 April 3, Scott Waldman, “‘Doomerism’: Why scientists disagree with Biden on 1.5 C”, in Environment & Energy Publishing[15], archived from the original on April 14, 2023:
Biden’s rhetoric is “misleading and unhelpful,” said Michael Mann, a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. The best way to view what lies beyond 1.5 C is as a continuum of worsening climate impacts, he said, rather than as a climate cliff. “It indeed feeds doomerism since there’s a very real possibility that we will fail to limit warming below 1.5 C,” Mann said of Biden’s remarks. “If we miss that exit ramp, we don’t continue headlong down the fossil fuel highway. We get off at the earliest possible exit.”
2023 May 15, Stephen Marche, “The apocalypse isn’t coming. We must resist cynicism and fear about AI”, in The Guardian[16], archived from the original on June 5, 2023:
The way you can tell that doomerism is just more hype is that its solutions are always terminally vague. The open letter called for a six-month ban. What, exactly, do they imagine will happen over those six months? The engineers won’t think about AI? The developers won’t figure out ways to use it? Doomerism likes its crises numinous, preferably unsolvable. AI fits the bill.
