Doomers

<p>per John Thackara, Doors of Perception:</p>

<p>In Sao Paulo before Christmas someone referred to me as a "doomer." I

had not heard the word before, but was told that it describes sad,

train-spotter-like people who can't stop talking about peak oil, climate

change, the instability of financial markets, the impending food crisis,

and what John Michael Greer calls the "catabolic collapse" of industrial

civilisation.</p>