There's been several articles coming out basically slamming doomers and doomerism. They amount to little more than political hit pieces.

First off, there are as many or more middle aged and elderly doomers as there are young doomers. Many eeite here on Medium. Alan Urban, B, Michael Campi, Jessica Wildfire, though she's started her own website blog now. I'm a doomer, though I don't write doomer articles. I'm 52, so hardly part of the youth scene.

Secondly, being a doomer and part of doomerism as a philosophy can cover some ground.

Basically it means you believe we're nearing collapse due to climate change, but that cana mean civilizational collapse, weather patterns collapse, environmental collapse, population collapse, extinction, some of the above, all of the above. For me personally, you can check everything on the list except extinction. I'm not there yet, but I can't rule it out either.

There's some play on the philosophical side as well. For some, it leads to nihilism, for others profound sadness. Still others look toward preparing outside the system and some want to build more resiliency in what we have or what will be left over after the energy glut ends. Some advocate for people to choose better leaders, others are resolves that there won't be leadership looking to save us plebes, it's about accepting that were expendible to those in charge.

In other words it means a lot of slightly different things to a lot of people.

It is about turning away from the idea that the tech bros are going to come up with a magic bullet to save us. It's also about realizinf that no where near enough people have a firm enough grasp on the realities of the situation to change enough to make a difference. By the time they do, it'll be far too late. It's already too late to mitigate or change what's coming.

That's why Doomers refer to it as a Predicament instead of a crisis.