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Browsing around Youtube you sometimes come across videos from modern-day doomsday cultists, the titles filled with phrases like "Human extinction 2030". These videos have been growing in popularity over recent years - with their flashy clickbait titles, they run up big viewer counts of a 100 000 and more, drawing in a steady audience of liberal and green types suffering from some kind of depressive episode.
The superstar of many of these videos is Guy McPherson - an Arizona University professor in Ecology (not climate science), who has spent most of the last ten years hobnobbing with the fringe end of conspiracy lefties and deep greens, jumping from one doomsday movement to the next. Once known for involving himself on the hysterical end of the peak oil movement, his latest message is that climate change is so bad and catastrophic that we are set for an exponential burst of temperature. His belief - this jump is both certain to happen and guaranteed to cause the extinction of every human being by 2026. Here is his long-winded and cherry-picking manifesto. It's pretty standard fare - a kind of shorter, left-wing parallel to the manifestos of people like Breivik - a rant supported by cherry-picked and misinterpreted scientific articles and opinion pieces from lefty non-scientists that support his view.
His favorite pieces of evidence are ridiculous looking graphs from his buddies at a doomsday website inhabited by an extreme alarmist fringe of climate scientists. Unsurprisingly for a guy who likes hyperbole, he likes graphs with an exponential curve fitted on a background of scary-looking color gradients. Never forget friends, polynomial Excel trendlines poorly fitted on a graph proves that the earth will be Venus in a century.
So why should you even care about this guy? Well, there's the fact that he's pretty high profile. Cult leaders have been talked about here before, but how about a cult leader who's been featured on major news networks and has been a featured guest on colleges - he even got interviewed by Bill Nye. He's a master at peddling his credentials - regardless of his crank-like handling of graphs and sources, he has always gotten his foot in the door because he was once a working professor (not of climate science, but still) and he knows how to make that title sell. He's been around for a while too - already a decade ago he was making failed predictions about US trucks stopping to run by 2012.
Or maybe you'd like to know that the guy is a stupendously touchy narcissist, who often blocks comments on his own website while prowling the internet Derek Smart style for any blogpost critical about himself, which he usually responds to with a vindictive and self-righteous "response" of his own. This is for instance what happened when two moderates of his own green movement called him out. He first raged in the blog post and then continued raging further in his comments section when the original authors came to defend themselves. For anyone who's ever criticized SJWs, I am sure you might see parallels. And also - don't you dare call the him a narcissist.
And then there's the lurid stuff. McPherson has only been growing more deranged over the years, his days of being a moderately sane public servant a distant memory. From throwing away his life savings on a survivalist-style "doomstead", to ever more cranky flings with conspiracy theories, he has ended up now in 2017 as a burnt-out ranting madman living in another Belize doomstead with one of his cultists, launching bizarre crowdfunders for a "lawsuit" against the majority of his former deep green friends who he accuses of having "libelled" him in some grand conspiracy involving them and everyone in the world not fully obedient to his tenets.
But wait - libelled him? What might Guy have done wrong?
You see, this is where the line of him being a cult leader comes in. Since a few years ago, Guy McPherson had been running "abrupt climate change support groups" off of one of his other websites, some type of deep green hugbox events conducted by Guy himself, mostly packed with worn out Gen X radical green activists, including many middle-aged SJW women. True to form, it seems that Guy set himself up as the domineering guru in these "therapy sessions" - that as I said, were filled with many depressed and vulnerable women.
Unsurprisingly, it appears that Guy might have developed an interest in abusing this power to get himself off. While the details remain blurred (most of the direct evidence was passed around privately), it is claimed that Guy McPherson formed bizarre BDSM-type relationships with several of these women, casting himself as a "guru daddy" figure. Guy himself admits that at least one of the relationships involved "rape fantasies" and "shibari". Most of the activities were seemingly conducted online, although there were allegedly plans of people "moving to Belize", which might have turned the online cult into a real one. One of his former cult members has even accused him of wanting to drag her daughters into the setup.
And that's what has caused Guy's response, that being the anti-libel lawsuit and many long and self-righteous articles of him ranting at his former friends.
So that's about all that fits in this post. I have no clue if people here would be much interested in this person - there has never been much friction (or even contact) between his cult and people who frequent chans. This is all just surface-level material though - barely covering a tiny fraction of his 11 year backlog of insane rambling blog posts, self-aggrandizing lectures, or the Facebook drama surrounding him.
The superstar of many of these videos is Guy McPherson - an Arizona University professor in Ecology (not climate science), who has spent most of the last ten years hobnobbing with the fringe end of conspiracy lefties and deep greens, jumping from one doomsday movement to the next. Once known for involving himself on the hysterical end of the peak oil movement, his latest message is that climate change is so bad and catastrophic that we are set for an exponential burst of temperature. His belief - this jump is both certain to happen and guaranteed to cause the extinction of every human being by 2026. Here is his long-winded and cherry-picking manifesto. It's pretty standard fare - a kind of shorter, left-wing parallel to the manifestos of people like Breivik - a rant supported by cherry-picked and misinterpreted scientific articles and opinion pieces from lefty non-scientists that support his view.
His favorite pieces of evidence are ridiculous looking graphs from his buddies at a doomsday website inhabited by an extreme alarmist fringe of climate scientists. Unsurprisingly for a guy who likes hyperbole, he likes graphs with an exponential curve fitted on a background of scary-looking color gradients. Never forget friends, polynomial Excel trendlines poorly fitted on a graph proves that the earth will be Venus in a century.
So why should you even care about this guy? Well, there's the fact that he's pretty high profile. Cult leaders have been talked about here before, but how about a cult leader who's been featured on major news networks and has been a featured guest on colleges - he even got interviewed by Bill Nye. He's a master at peddling his credentials - regardless of his crank-like handling of graphs and sources, he has always gotten his foot in the door because he was once a working professor (not of climate science, but still) and he knows how to make that title sell. He's been around for a while too - already a decade ago he was making failed predictions about US trucks stopping to run by 2012.
Or maybe you'd like to know that the guy is a stupendously touchy narcissist, who often blocks comments on his own website while prowling the internet Derek Smart style for any blogpost critical about himself, which he usually responds to with a vindictive and self-righteous "response" of his own. This is for instance what happened when two moderates of his own green movement called him out. He first raged in the blog post and then continued raging further in his comments section when the original authors came to defend themselves. For anyone who's ever criticized SJWs, I am sure you might see parallels. And also - don't you dare call the him a narcissist.
And then there's the lurid stuff. McPherson has only been growing more deranged over the years, his days of being a moderately sane public servant a distant memory. From throwing away his life savings on a survivalist-style "doomstead", to ever more cranky flings with conspiracy theories, he has ended up now in 2017 as a burnt-out ranting madman living in another Belize doomstead with one of his cultists, launching bizarre crowdfunders for a "lawsuit" against the majority of his former deep green friends who he accuses of having "libelled" him in some grand conspiracy involving them and everyone in the world not fully obedient to his tenets.
But wait - libelled him? What might Guy have done wrong?
You see, this is where the line of him being a cult leader comes in. Since a few years ago, Guy McPherson had been running "abrupt climate change support groups" off of one of his other websites, some type of deep green hugbox events conducted by Guy himself, mostly packed with worn out Gen X radical green activists, including many middle-aged SJW women. True to form, it seems that Guy set himself up as the domineering guru in these "therapy sessions" - that as I said, were filled with many depressed and vulnerable women.
Unsurprisingly, it appears that Guy might have developed an interest in abusing this power to get himself off. While the details remain blurred (most of the direct evidence was passed around privately), it is claimed that Guy McPherson formed bizarre BDSM-type relationships with several of these women, casting himself as a "guru daddy" figure. Guy himself admits that at least one of the relationships involved "rape fantasies" and "shibari". Most of the activities were seemingly conducted online, although there were allegedly plans of people "moving to Belize", which might have turned the online cult into a real one. One of his former cult members has even accused him of wanting to drag her daughters into the setup.
And that's what has caused Guy's response, that being the anti-libel lawsuit and many long and self-righteous articles of him ranting at his former friends.
So that's about all that fits in this post. I have no clue if people here would be much interested in this person - there has never been much friction (or even contact) between his cult and people who frequent chans. This is all just surface-level material though - barely covering a tiny fraction of his 11 year backlog of insane rambling blog posts, self-aggrandizing lectures, or the Facebook drama surrounding him.
