"I met Connie Barlow at a lecture... Connie was the author of four books, and two of them had "evolution" in their titles... She, too, was a long-time "epic of evolution" enthusiast. ...[H]er passion for sharing a sacred understanding of cosmic history was no less than mine. Seven months later I asked Connie to marry me."
Michael Dowd was an American author, Christian minister, lecturer, and advocate of ecotheology and post-doom.
"Evidence is also compelling that the vast majority... will deny this, especially those benefiting from the existing order, those legitimately concerned about the consequences of collapse, and those who fear that accepting reality means "giving up." ...Virtually all of us fit that paragraph ..."
"The s health has been in decline for one or two centuries, and in runaway collapse... for decades... The Great Acceleration of Gaian Collapse."
", , and... abrupt non-linear ... ... verified that even if every human being went extinct tonight, stopping emissions immediately, wed still see 25 to 40 ft of sea level rise in the next two centuries."
"Unstoppable collapse... These extinction level tipping points... thresholds that are already in the rear view mirror. Loss of the worlds ice... I consider Dahr Jamails The End of Ice... my favorite book on climate change. If you only read one book on climate change this year, read that..."
"You will... find here effective ways to talk about evolution to any friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors who are biblical literalists or young earth creationists."
"Denial gets a bad wrap, because denial is instinctual."