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Prologue

While our website features a lot of difficult news about our current climate change condition, please do not think that we have given up hope on this challenging task, or that there are few benefits to be gained when we address climate change. When you're done reading this page, be sure to read the following link first, then proceed to the next link, which will help you maintain the realistic hope and balance we will all need to overcome the climate challenge together. (The second article has been read by several million people.)

(As of May 2025, we are currently in the middle of our second five-year upgrade of all content on our website. Until this upgrade is complete, our new editors may still be correcting minor grammatical or spelling errors as they go through the hundreds of pages on our website.)

After reviewing all the concerning future consequences related to the 13 major challenges of our future, as outlined on the Job One for Humanity website, it is only fair to wonder if...

Are we survivalists or end-of-the-world preppers, doomers, or supporters of the growing "near-term human extinction" or post-doom movements? We are definitely not!

Our focus is education and engaged social activism. However, we are wisely helping to prepare others for the unavoidably painful road ahead created by our previous individual and collective bad decisions.

We also are not techno-optimists or techno-delusionists. We do not believe that magical carbon-sucking unicorns, desperate last-chance geo-engineering, or other delusional techno-miracles will save us from the climate change emergency in time or without even worse side effects. 

If you must give us a label, you can call us progressive eco-preppers seeking to create a new model of sustainable eco-communities that embody the values and actions necessary to help rebuild a world of far-improved justice and equality for all. We are trying to create the solutions that will be needed for the world to survive after we have passed through the hard times ahead. (Click here for a view of what progressive eco-communities look like.)

We do not support the growing premise that total human extinction sometime over the rest of this century is a certainty. Click here to see why the total extinction of humanity is not probable.

The qualified truth is that only if we do not come close to meeting the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets will the likelihood of near-total human extinction rise to an urgent threat level. Furthermore, near-total extinction in this worst-case scenario will take at least another 50-70 years to begin its final phases.

Therefore, all is not lost --- yet! If we are lucky, we have some time left (until approximately 2031) to achieve the critical 2025 global fossil fuel reductions. 

On the other hand, it is also essential to acknowledge that many horrendous consequences of global warming and other related issues are already "baked into" our global systems, which are now unavoidable. These numerous "baked in" consequences will also eventually lead to the likely die-off of approximately half of humanity by mid-century. 

Because of this cascade of unavoidable consequences, we also face the widespread and intensifying collapse of many of our weakest local, regional, and national social and economic systems as we approach the mid-century.

Yes, we face the largest evolutionary challenge in humanity's long history of great survival challenges. 

Managing the 12 worst global crises will require nothing less than radical changes to our lifestyles and livelihoods. At the same time, we will also need to prepare vigorously for and adapt to the catastrophic consequences that we can no longer prevent.

To learn more about the radical changes in our livelihoods and lifestyles needed to survive and thrive through the coming consequences and post-collapse era, click here first and read about the principles of sustainable prosperity. Next, click the following links to see Part 1 and Part 2 of the Job One for Humanity Plan, which will provide detailed emergency preparation and adaptation steps.

Next, click here to review the four models of sustainable eco-communities we are helping to build worldwide.

Do not mistake us for some survivalist or apocalyptic community concerning our research on the current out-of-control global warming and the other 12 major converging global adaptive challenges facing our collective future. 

Our message is simple, proactive, and not the doomer or similar fatalistic messages:

1. "We are a community of activists that believes in learning from our mistakes, being prepared, and being adaptable is a wise evolutionary strategy.

2. We, as humans, are intelligent and adaptive beings, and we can solve or adapt to almost anything.

3. Life on Earth has always found a way to learn, adapt, and survive. Life has survived five previous mass extinctions in the last 4.5 billion years of Earth's evolution. (See this page for more on life's astonishing evolutionary success.)

4. The future is unknown and full of unpredictable negative and positive wild cards. This means that there is still hope for some part of humanity and our civilization to survive if we quickly execute responsible, intelligent, and effective adaptive actions that will resolve our most pressing global challenges using a "first things first" strategy.

5. When we or future generations do get through our current 12 major global challenges, we will have built something new together that is far better adapted and suitable for achieving a positive and sustainable future for ALL. (Click here to see all of the benefits of fixing climate change.)

6. Despite the rough road ahead, we can still fully enjoy each day (as best as we can, even despite the worsening of these 12 global challenges).

7. Working together in new sustainable communities (like our Universe Spirit Eco-community model,) we can make our lives as happy and as good as they will get during this temporary retrogression and transition period. And finally,

8. Overcoming this emergency will help us better solve our challenges as one effective and united human family. This experience also will teach us and help us to live the Universe Principles of progressive evolution and sustainable prosperity.

Do not doubt that humanity has reached a monumental evolutionary juncture, and we are running out of time to prevent the eventual near-total extinction of humanity. Only a comprehensive mass mobilization by our governments can lessen the coming suffering and save the future. 

In our organization, we view ourselves as a new evolutionary eco-community of Evolutioneers and Planetary and Universe Citizens, valuing the historical wisdom of preparedness for appropriate threats and living sustainably to model the new world we want to live in. We are not fear-manipulated or fear-dominated, but we do not ignore data that should trigger positive, protective, and appropriate evolutionary fear reactions.

We will always use the appropriate and positive evolutionary fear warning feedback contained within accurate but survival-negative information to anticipate, prepare, and quickly adapt wisely. We know that it is better to act and save something than not to act and lose everything!

We are not doomers, post-doomers, or preppers who have given up on the future and are living in hiding or resignation. We are sustainability activists still full of hope that we can:

1. Face the true urgency of all of our current 12 global crises, resolve what we can, and adapt to what we can't. 

2. Create the new eco-community model needed for the new behaviors and systems that will resolve today's biggest global problems and become a global basis of a better world for ALL. 

Yes, we are also preparing new sustainable eco-communities to address this human-created crisis and the temporary and transitional "evolutionary bottleneck and retrogression." We are doing this solely because the facts clearly show that many of our global systems are in severe challenge or nearing critical tipping points with no or low remaining recovery resilience. 

To the discerning evaluator and researcher, both human history and the current worsening 12 global challenges indicate that our lives will continue to get worse with little realistic hope of correction until the chain reaction of cascading multiple global catastrophes and crossed tipping points shakes us awake to the need for drastic evolutionary change toward more sustainable livelihoods and lifestyles.

We hold that the main unrecognized threats for today and the future are:

1. Other than nuclear war, climate change and global warming are the main accelerators and drivers of humanity's near-total extinction. 

2. The world still does not realize that when the climate system goes over its extinction-triggering tipping points, there is nothing you can do to stop the physics and mathematics of the consequences of those tipping points from manifesting their deadly consequences. (How soon we will cross the extinction-triggering global warming tipping points is described here.)  

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Once you realize the hard reality of where we are...

Keeping our dangerous global threats in an appropriate time perspective is also critical to avoid counterproductive panic. Depending on your current location, you should still have enough time to prepare for and adapt to the myriad of now unavoidable global warming consequences. It is wholly appropriate to feel fear at this critical juncture in the evolution of humanity, given the numerous known consequences of accelerating global warming and the worsening of these 11 additional global crises. 

While generalized fear or panic often paralyzes, there are positive evolutionary reasons why the emotion of fear exists. The positive use of fear exists in times when there are real threats to your survival. Positive fear mobilizes the observant and wise to act before it is too late! 

To support the positive and wise use of fear relating to global warming and other consequences (from these 12 other global crises,) click here to review the most up-to-date consequence timeframes to use in your survive and thrive planning. 

The good timeline news here is simple. If we can at least approach the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets, we can still prevent near-total human extinction. If we do not, we will begin crossing too many additional extinction-triggering tipping points far too quickly to prevent the worst consequences of runaway global warming, thereby multiplying the worsening effects of the other 12 major global crises.

In Summary

We believe it is essential not to conceal these reasonable and rational facts and high probabilities.

We believe there is a real urgency to prepare for what is soon unavoidable.

We are not detached survivalists. We have engaged sustainability advocates, progressive eco-preppers and eco-community builders, Evolutioneers, and Planetary Citizens. 

We can navigate this significant evolutionary transition period, capitalize on the once-in-a-generation opportunity arising from the forthcoming collective catharsis, and then harness that motivational energy for change to effect long-overdue and critically needed improvements to our social systems. 

We can rebuild our social systems based on sustainable and limited growth for all, rather than the cancer-like concepts of uncontrolled or unlimited growth for the few.

We believe wholeheartedly in working towards the best possible future while also being prepared for the worst possible temporary human transition period. 

We can fully prepare for the worst and then "forget" about those preparations while focusing wholeheartedly on the best.

We can hold that actively saving all we can is far better than inactively saving nothing.

We can hold that some of us will prepare, adapt, survive, and thrive once again if we act wisely. We should not give up the appropriate amount of rational hope that remains.

The history of life evolving on Earth strongly supports the premise that some of us will survive. (See this page for the big-picture view of evolution on Earth.)

We envision that establishing new, sustainable eco-communities worldwide will play a crucial role in securing humanity's long-term survival and establishing a new sustainable prosperity for all, in the post-widespread collapse world.

We will address our 12 global challenges using only peaceful and evolutionary means.

No matter how challenging things become, we can still find daily enjoyment and joy in our relationships and life experiences.

We are post-collapse thrivers! There will be many unexpected benefits to executing the Job One for Humanity Plan in addressing the global mess we have created for ourselves. And, 

We can together create a long-term future for humanity and our civilization. And, if we are wise and work together, someday we or our children will successfully evolve both here on Earth and eventually out into the stars.

And finally, even if the accelerating global warming emergency and the convergence of it with humanity's 12 other key global challenges were somehow resolved in the next 30 to 50 years or turned out to be not as bad as currently predicted by our best scientists, the new sustainable eco-communities which we are co-creating would function even better and more joyously on their other main goals of helping to co-create the necessary restructuring and re-alignment of society to create:

a.) a sustainable prosperity for ALL of humanity,
b.) a just and equitable civilization,
c.) thriving and meaning-filled individuals and eco-communities --- all of which align with and forward the progressive evolution of life in the universe.

For the past 13 years, our organization has been developing a plan called the Job One for Humanity Plan. It is called that because that is precisely what it is; humanity's job number one to survive and thrive.

The good news is that if we want to survive and mitigate the coming suffering, we must implement this plan (or something similar) now. 

For additional support and evaluation

1. Please use the 40-plus warning signs found on this page to monitor the worsening of our 12 major global crises. Print them out. Watch the news to see them unfold one by one, until we take full responsibility for the mess we have created through our individual and collective bad decisions. 

2. If you need help processing the facts on this page emotionally, we have two pages to get you through the typical reactions of anger, grief, denial, sadness, etc. The first page addresses the challenging emotional process that most people will undergo after realizing that we provide an accurate, comprehensive view of their future risks and probabilities.

3. Next, see this page on the surprising benefits of accepting the challenge of fixing it. This benefits page has been viewed over a million times.

For answers to all of your remaining questions about climate change and global warming, click here for our new climate change FAQ. It has over one hundred of the most asked questions and answers about climate change.

Please also consider becoming an annual member by clicking here and checking out the wonderful information and benefits that you will receive. We guarantee that you will receive more than you give when you become a proud funder of our 100% publicly funded, not-for-profit climate change think tank.