Hi - just wanted to say good design and blog -…

The site is very well designed, but you need a link to a therapist network to help people like me recover from the confirmation of our worst fears. 100-pound squids attacking in packs? The race to shoot the last polar bear? No wonder people watch soap operas: they’re so cheery and uncomplicated.

I bookmarked the site to better follow the daily degradation of life as we know it. The species collapse section is especially heartbreaking.

Thanks for letting me know about this, Michael. I will pass along the URL to help draw traffic and discussion. You’re right: I know of nothing else like it on the Web.

Learned some things, too. Hermaphroditic frogs? Canadians clear-cutting trees to protest?

I also noticed seven scenarios in the blog, and only six on the main site — is that intentional, somehow? What have you got against religious apocolypses?

This shit is depressing as hell.

On “Fresh Air” he talked about how maybe 5 billion dollars a year could keep Indonesians from cutting down their rain forest. That’s a drop in the ding-dang bucket! Here’s that interview.

These pteropods are called the “potato chips” of the oceans as they are food for many different species. If they die off, then you’ve removed a staple from the ocean cuisine — what other species will suffer.

These losses are ecosystemic.

The pteropod: another canary in the coal mine?

To me, it’s starting to look like we are all sitting ducks.

The more I wake up to what we’re doing, the more I realize that it’s the millions-of-actions that can be changed — meaning, the little, wasteful, stupid, needless uses of plastic could shift, with a wee push from us humans. I think of each bit of plastic ending up in that Eighth Continent of trash floating in the Pacific. …

Ms. Brancato sounds so like a valley girl. You can imagine one of her colleagues that day responding “Dude, maybe these crabs are, like, Jonestown crabs, ya know?”

It’s so hard to find the right modality of communication, given the differentials between dominant social paradigms, current scientific realities, and the Humor Vectors. You could have gone into more detail about our discussions (”is haiku a vector, or a format? is it a communication frame, or a commentary angle?”), but you know me — I’m all about the analytic framework.

James and Mike explore
a brand new modality
we find expression.

or something like that.

All the humor is “serious,” in that regard, though we certainly have had some fun along the way.

Regarding our former colleagues at the Center for PostApocalypse Studies, and KissMyAsspocalypse, our history together (and the Dissolution Agreement) prevents much discussion in an open forum.