The Doomsday Prophets of Reddit

Kevin was 23 when he realized the world was ending. “I called my mom and was like, we gotta sell our property and move to Alaska, we need to get to a haven where, even if things got really warm — like super warm — we can still survive.” At the time he was in his final year of college, completing a degree in Environmental Engineering and writing an essay on water resource management. “I started to read about the potential of abrupt climate change from a cascade of positive feedback loops in the Arctic and stumbled across the YouTube videos of a dude named Guy McPherson who has, like, these literal timeframes where by 2026, the lights are off and there’s almost no people left,” Kevin said. He shared his concerns with professors and peers, but few listened.