Doomer

Doomers are people who are extremely pessimistic or fatalistic about global problems such as overpopulation, peak oil, climate change, ecological overshoot, pollution, nuclear weapons, and runaway artificial intelligence. The term, and its associated term doomerism, arose primarily on social media. Some doomers believe these problems may lead to human extinction.^[1]^[2]

Malthusians like Paul R. Ehrlich, Guy McPherson and Michael Ruppert have related doomerism to Malthusianism, an economic philosophy holding that human resource use will eventually exceed resource availability, leading to societal collapse, social unrest, or population decline.^[3]^[4]

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^ ""Humans will be extinct by 2026" – doom-and-gloom prophet Professor Guy McPherson on abrupt climate change". BizNews.com. 20 January 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
^ "Only 2020 could bring us words like these". Grist. 28 December 2020. Archived from the original on 28 December 2020.
^ Holmgren, David (2009). Future scenarios : how communities can adapt to peak oil and climate change. White River Junction, Vermont. ISBN 978-1-60358-206-3. OCLC 1021809104.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)^{[page needed]}