How The World Will End…

…and why we won’t do anything about it!

Deepak Rajanna

Carrying Capacity

How We Use It…

Wine (wīn)

n.

Waste product of a collapsed yeast colony with poor ecological management skills.

We’re looking for the guy who cut the last palm tree…

Domo Arigato Tokugawa

…why we won’t do anything about it?

๏ Failure to anticipate

๏ Failure to perceive

๏ Failure to solve

Failure to anticipate๏ Lack of experience

๏ Immature science

๏ Reasoning by false analogy

Failure to Perceive…Exponentials

Failure to Perceive…ExponentialsThe last minutes in the petri dish

11:54 a.m 1/64 full (1.5%) 63/64 empty

11:55 a.m 1/32 full (3%) 31/32 empty

11:56 a.m. 1/16 full (6%) 15/16 empty

11:57 a.m. 1/8 full (12%) 1/8 full (12%)

11:58 a.m. 1/4 full (25%) ¾ empty

11:59 a.m. ½ full (50%) ½ empty

12:00 a.m. Full (100%) 0% empty

Failure to perceive… Landscape Amnesia

Failure to perceive… Creeping Normalcy

Failure to perceive…SEP

Failure to perceive… Psychological Denial

Failure to solve… Tyranny of the majority

Failure to solve…Tragedy of the commons

Failure to solve…Evolution

Failure to solve…Culture

Failure to solve…Ethics

Failure to solve… The single biggest problem

“The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single

most important problem”

Failure to solve…The Momentum

Carlin said it best

“The planet doesn’t need to be saved. The planet isn’t going anywhere. We are!

Pack your shit folks. We’re going away. And we won’t be leaving any traces. Maybe just a little Styrofoam.

We’ll be gone. Just another failed mutation, an evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas, a surface nuisance.”