Dobby Does Doom
@sonofscience.bsky.social
Discussing responses to climate change and the collapse of global industrial civilisation due to ecological overshoot. Doomer. Permaculture designer. https://adriandobby.substack.com/
When you want to make an AI video of a unicorn eating ice cream with Peppa Pig but the noise of the cooling system from the Microsoft data centre next door is keeping you awake at night.
#overshoot #collapse
#overshoot #collapse
October 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
When you want to make an AI video of a unicorn eating ice cream with Peppa Pig but the noise of the cooling system from the Microsoft data centre next door is keeping you awake at night.
#overshoot #collapse
#overshoot #collapse
My favourite..
September 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM
My favourite..
Humans run their own Red Queen race through technology: agriculture, fossil fuels, fertilisers, antibiotics. Each innovation keeps us moving, but never gets us anywhere.
The trouble is, our race isn’t just with other species, but with the living systems we depend on. 2/4
The trouble is, our race isn’t just with other species, but with the living systems we depend on. 2/4
September 20, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Humans run their own Red Queen race through technology: agriculture, fossil fuels, fertilisers, antibiotics. Each innovation keeps us moving, but never gets us anywhere.
The trouble is, our race isn’t just with other species, but with the living systems we depend on. 2/4
The trouble is, our race isn’t just with other species, but with the living systems we depend on. 2/4
The Red Queen tells Alice she must run as fast as she can just to stay in the same place.
Biologists use the Red Queen hypothesis to describe co-evolution: predator and prey, parasite and host, locked in a race where standing still means falling behind - and more rapid extinction. 1/4 #collapse
Biologists use the Red Queen hypothesis to describe co-evolution: predator and prey, parasite and host, locked in a race where standing still means falling behind - and more rapid extinction. 1/4 #collapse
September 20, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The Red Queen tells Alice she must run as fast as she can just to stay in the same place.
Biologists use the Red Queen hypothesis to describe co-evolution: predator and prey, parasite and host, locked in a race where standing still means falling behind - and more rapid extinction. 1/4 #collapse
Biologists use the Red Queen hypothesis to describe co-evolution: predator and prey, parasite and host, locked in a race where standing still means falling behind - and more rapid extinction. 1/4 #collapse
Are we in ecological overshoot? Yes.
Can civilisation be made sustainable on its resource base? No.
Can we support biodiversity on the way down? Locally, yes.
Will this be the first civilisation not to collapse? No.
#overshoot #collapse
Can civilisation be made sustainable on its resource base? No.
Can we support biodiversity on the way down? Locally, yes.
Will this be the first civilisation not to collapse? No.
#overshoot #collapse
August 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Are we in ecological overshoot? Yes.
Can civilisation be made sustainable on its resource base? No.
Can we support biodiversity on the way down? Locally, yes.
Will this be the first civilisation not to collapse? No.
#overshoot #collapse
Can civilisation be made sustainable on its resource base? No.
Can we support biodiversity on the way down? Locally, yes.
Will this be the first civilisation not to collapse? No.
#overshoot #collapse
Legendary collapsologist Sid Smith once said:
“Civilisations are a particular type of thing. And like all particular types of things, they have all the defects of their qualities.”
This is a really important observation, that I think about often. Let me explain why. 1/6 #overshoot #collapse
“Civilisations are a particular type of thing. And like all particular types of things, they have all the defects of their qualities.”
This is a really important observation, that I think about often. Let me explain why. 1/6 #overshoot #collapse
August 17, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Legendary collapsologist Sid Smith once said:
“Civilisations are a particular type of thing. And like all particular types of things, they have all the defects of their qualities.”
This is a really important observation, that I think about often. Let me explain why. 1/6 #overshoot #collapse
“Civilisations are a particular type of thing. And like all particular types of things, they have all the defects of their qualities.”
This is a really important observation, that I think about often. Let me explain why. 1/6 #overshoot #collapse
Cities cover 2% of Earth yet produce 70% of emissions.
Like human feedlots, they pull in food, water, and energy to sustain vast numbers. Fossil fuels have driven population growth, leaving just 4% of mammal biomass in the wild.
Without the inflow, cities would empty in days #collapse #overshoot
Like human feedlots, they pull in food, water, and energy to sustain vast numbers. Fossil fuels have driven population growth, leaving just 4% of mammal biomass in the wild.
Without the inflow, cities would empty in days #collapse #overshoot
August 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Cities cover 2% of Earth yet produce 70% of emissions.
Like human feedlots, they pull in food, water, and energy to sustain vast numbers. Fossil fuels have driven population growth, leaving just 4% of mammal biomass in the wild.
Without the inflow, cities would empty in days #collapse #overshoot
Like human feedlots, they pull in food, water, and energy to sustain vast numbers. Fossil fuels have driven population growth, leaving just 4% of mammal biomass in the wild.
Without the inflow, cities would empty in days #collapse #overshoot
Collapse is not coming - it’s already here.
Four systems (climate, energy, food, and economy) are breaking down together, each amplifying the weaknesses of the others.
This is not a prediction - the #collapse of these systems is well underway, and already changing our lives. 1/10 #overshoot
Four systems (climate, energy, food, and economy) are breaking down together, each amplifying the weaknesses of the others.
This is not a prediction - the #collapse of these systems is well underway, and already changing our lives. 1/10 #overshoot
August 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Collapse is not coming - it’s already here.
Four systems (climate, energy, food, and economy) are breaking down together, each amplifying the weaknesses of the others.
This is not a prediction - the #collapse of these systems is well underway, and already changing our lives. 1/10 #overshoot
Four systems (climate, energy, food, and economy) are breaking down together, each amplifying the weaknesses of the others.
This is not a prediction - the #collapse of these systems is well underway, and already changing our lives. 1/10 #overshoot
We grow up thinking of ourselves as individuals, with jobs, opinions, and plans.
Inside all of us is something older. We are animals, shaped by wind and soil, attuned to weather, and to the sound of birds.
Our ecological identity is something we would do well to remember in a time of #collapse 1/5
Inside all of us is something older. We are animals, shaped by wind and soil, attuned to weather, and to the sound of birds.
Our ecological identity is something we would do well to remember in a time of #collapse 1/5
August 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
We grow up thinking of ourselves as individuals, with jobs, opinions, and plans.
Inside all of us is something older. We are animals, shaped by wind and soil, attuned to weather, and to the sound of birds.
Our ecological identity is something we would do well to remember in a time of #collapse 1/5
Inside all of us is something older. We are animals, shaped by wind and soil, attuned to weather, and to the sound of birds.
Our ecological identity is something we would do well to remember in a time of #collapse 1/5
I fed a few birds at the train station this morning, and a guard told me off!
I said, 'It’s their planet too.'
He remained unmoved.
Industrial systems don’t know what to do with care that isn’t transactional - even a small gesture toward the more-than-human can feel like dissent. #collapse
I said, 'It’s their planet too.'
He remained unmoved.
Industrial systems don’t know what to do with care that isn’t transactional - even a small gesture toward the more-than-human can feel like dissent. #collapse
August 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I fed a few birds at the train station this morning, and a guard told me off!
I said, 'It’s their planet too.'
He remained unmoved.
Industrial systems don’t know what to do with care that isn’t transactional - even a small gesture toward the more-than-human can feel like dissent. #collapse
I said, 'It’s their planet too.'
He remained unmoved.
Industrial systems don’t know what to do with care that isn’t transactional - even a small gesture toward the more-than-human can feel like dissent. #collapse
Supply chains increasingly falter, States fracture, and systems fail.
This process is uneven, yet accelerating - drought‑induced migration, conflict over resources, infrastructure breakdown, and heat‑driven social stress are multiplying. 8/10
This process is uneven, yet accelerating - drought‑induced migration, conflict over resources, infrastructure breakdown, and heat‑driven social stress are multiplying. 8/10
August 1, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Supply chains increasingly falter, States fracture, and systems fail.
This process is uneven, yet accelerating - drought‑induced migration, conflict over resources, infrastructure breakdown, and heat‑driven social stress are multiplying. 8/10
This process is uneven, yet accelerating - drought‑induced migration, conflict over resources, infrastructure breakdown, and heat‑driven social stress are multiplying. 8/10
Climate chaos raises the energy cost of everything - food, water, cooling, rebuilding - just as our available high‑EROI energy base narrows.
Systems face rising demand and falling returns simultaneously. The narrowing energy ceiling meets the rising ecological floor. 7/10
Systems face rising demand and falling returns simultaneously. The narrowing energy ceiling meets the rising ecological floor. 7/10
August 1, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Climate chaos raises the energy cost of everything - food, water, cooling, rebuilding - just as our available high‑EROI energy base narrows.
Systems face rising demand and falling returns simultaneously. The narrowing energy ceiling meets the rising ecological floor. 7/10
Systems face rising demand and falling returns simultaneously. The narrowing energy ceiling meets the rising ecological floor. 7/10
We’re now seeing annual climate shocks: crop failures, infrastructure collapse, and heat‑driven migration and conflict.
Arctic regions have shifted from carbon sinks to net carbon sources; global surface temperature averaged 1.6 °C above pre‑industrial in 2024, breaking the 1.5 °C threshold. 6/10
Arctic regions have shifted from carbon sinks to net carbon sources; global surface temperature averaged 1.6 °C above pre‑industrial in 2024, breaking the 1.5 °C threshold. 6/10
August 1, 2025 at 6:40 AM
We’re now seeing annual climate shocks: crop failures, infrastructure collapse, and heat‑driven migration and conflict.
Arctic regions have shifted from carbon sinks to net carbon sources; global surface temperature averaged 1.6 °C above pre‑industrial in 2024, breaking the 1.5 °C threshold. 6/10
Arctic regions have shifted from carbon sinks to net carbon sources; global surface temperature averaged 1.6 °C above pre‑industrial in 2024, breaking the 1.5 °C threshold. 6/10
Industrial civilisation isn’t collapsing from a single cause. It’s collapsing from a confluence of two forces - energy decline and climate change.
Together, they form a feedback loop that industrial civilisation cannot survive - it is a simple matter of physics. 1/10 #overshoot #collapse
Together, they form a feedback loop that industrial civilisation cannot survive - it is a simple matter of physics. 1/10 #overshoot #collapse
August 1, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Industrial civilisation isn’t collapsing from a single cause. It’s collapsing from a confluence of two forces - energy decline and climate change.
Together, they form a feedback loop that industrial civilisation cannot survive - it is a simple matter of physics. 1/10 #overshoot #collapse
Together, they form a feedback loop that industrial civilisation cannot survive - it is a simple matter of physics. 1/10 #overshoot #collapse
What we’re witnessing isn’t random.
It’s the logic of overshoot resolving itself - through the collapse of ecological integrity and civilisational complexity.
We can’t fix it, but we can decide how to live inside it - with clarity, attention, and integrity. 10/10
It’s the logic of overshoot resolving itself - through the collapse of ecological integrity and civilisational complexity.
We can’t fix it, but we can decide how to live inside it - with clarity, attention, and integrity. 10/10
July 31, 2025 at 6:37 AM
What we’re witnessing isn’t random.
It’s the logic of overshoot resolving itself - through the collapse of ecological integrity and civilisational complexity.
We can’t fix it, but we can decide how to live inside it - with clarity, attention, and integrity. 10/10
It’s the logic of overshoot resolving itself - through the collapse of ecological integrity and civilisational complexity.
We can’t fix it, but we can decide how to live inside it - with clarity, attention, and integrity. 10/10
These aren’t isolated crises, they’re symptoms of ecological overshoot - a global condition where human demand exceeds the planet’s capacity to regenerate.
What looks like chaos is actually correction - industrial civilisation, and the biosphere, are shedding complexity to regain balance. 9/10
What looks like chaos is actually correction - industrial civilisation, and the biosphere, are shedding complexity to regain balance. 9/10
July 31, 2025 at 6:37 AM
These aren’t isolated crises, they’re symptoms of ecological overshoot - a global condition where human demand exceeds the planet’s capacity to regenerate.
What looks like chaos is actually correction - industrial civilisation, and the biosphere, are shedding complexity to regain balance. 9/10
What looks like chaos is actually correction - industrial civilisation, and the biosphere, are shedding complexity to regain balance. 9/10
Collapse isn’t coming. It’s already unfolding - and we’re nearing inflection points that will reshape how we live.
These 7 mainstream news stories aren’t flukes or isolated failures.
They’re system-level signals of a civilisation deep in ecological overshoot. 1/10 #overshoot #collapse
These 7 mainstream news stories aren’t flukes or isolated failures.
They’re system-level signals of a civilisation deep in ecological overshoot. 1/10 #overshoot #collapse
July 31, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Collapse isn’t coming. It’s already unfolding - and we’re nearing inflection points that will reshape how we live.
These 7 mainstream news stories aren’t flukes or isolated failures.
They’re system-level signals of a civilisation deep in ecological overshoot. 1/10 #overshoot #collapse
These 7 mainstream news stories aren’t flukes or isolated failures.
They’re system-level signals of a civilisation deep in ecological overshoot. 1/10 #overshoot #collapse
Collapse isn’t just a systems event.
For humans living in biophysical reality, collapse is an onto-evolutionary process - one that reshapes how we perceive, relate, and exist.
This thread is about collapse as ontological transmutation - a shift in human form. 1/10 #overshoot #collapse
For humans living in biophysical reality, collapse is an onto-evolutionary process - one that reshapes how we perceive, relate, and exist.
This thread is about collapse as ontological transmutation - a shift in human form. 1/10 #overshoot #collapse
July 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Collapse isn’t just a systems event.
For humans living in biophysical reality, collapse is an onto-evolutionary process - one that reshapes how we perceive, relate, and exist.
This thread is about collapse as ontological transmutation - a shift in human form. 1/10 #overshoot #collapse
For humans living in biophysical reality, collapse is an onto-evolutionary process - one that reshapes how we perceive, relate, and exist.
This thread is about collapse as ontological transmutation - a shift in human form. 1/10 #overshoot #collapse
There are two realities.
One is human constructed and built from stories.
The other is biophysical and built from physics.
This thread is about where they no longer align, and what that mismatch reveals about our future 1/10 #overshoot #collapse
One is human constructed and built from stories.
The other is biophysical and built from physics.
This thread is about where they no longer align, and what that mismatch reveals about our future 1/10 #overshoot #collapse
July 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
There are two realities.
One is human constructed and built from stories.
The other is biophysical and built from physics.
This thread is about where they no longer align, and what that mismatch reveals about our future 1/10 #overshoot #collapse
One is human constructed and built from stories.
The other is biophysical and built from physics.
This thread is about where they no longer align, and what that mismatch reveals about our future 1/10 #overshoot #collapse
Collapse-aware folk often talk about emissions, feedback loops, and biodiversity loss, but thermal equilibrium is the core mechanic behind why collapse is inevitable.
The damage is baked in, not just ongoing. This is committed warming. 6/10
The damage is baked in, not just ongoing. This is committed warming. 6/10
July 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Collapse-aware folk often talk about emissions, feedback loops, and biodiversity loss, but thermal equilibrium is the core mechanic behind why collapse is inevitable.
The damage is baked in, not just ongoing. This is committed warming. 6/10
The damage is baked in, not just ongoing. This is committed warming. 6/10
Thermal equilibrium is coming, and it doesn't care what we do now.
We focus on current emissions, but the Earth system is still catching up with what we did decades ago.
This is the brutal reality of thermal inertia, and why thermal equilibrium is the real #collapse trigger few are ready for. 1/10
We focus on current emissions, but the Earth system is still catching up with what we did decades ago.
This is the brutal reality of thermal inertia, and why thermal equilibrium is the real #collapse trigger few are ready for. 1/10
July 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Thermal equilibrium is coming, and it doesn't care what we do now.
We focus on current emissions, but the Earth system is still catching up with what we did decades ago.
This is the brutal reality of thermal inertia, and why thermal equilibrium is the real #collapse trigger few are ready for. 1/10
We focus on current emissions, but the Earth system is still catching up with what we did decades ago.
This is the brutal reality of thermal inertia, and why thermal equilibrium is the real #collapse trigger few are ready for. 1/10
Rewatching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles in 2025, collapse-aware, it does not feel like sci-fi.
It's prophetic, a quiet meditation on resistance, systems, and what it means to stay human when the machine has already won.
If you haven't seen it, give it a punt. #extinction
It's prophetic, a quiet meditation on resistance, systems, and what it means to stay human when the machine has already won.
If you haven't seen it, give it a punt. #extinction
July 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Rewatching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles in 2025, collapse-aware, it does not feel like sci-fi.
It's prophetic, a quiet meditation on resistance, systems, and what it means to stay human when the machine has already won.
If you haven't seen it, give it a punt. #extinction
It's prophetic, a quiet meditation on resistance, systems, and what it means to stay human when the machine has already won.
If you haven't seen it, give it a punt. #extinction