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How to Enjoy the End of the World

A Virginia Tech presentation by Sid Smith about collapse, fossil fuels and overshoot, arguing that industrial civilization faces a decline and how one might live with that. It was later expanded into a video series.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended in collapse and energy threads as a sobering thermodynamic view of civilization, often with a warning that it is heavy.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Sid Smith
Topic
societal collapse and energy
Format
lecture
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
10
Recommendation years in dataset
2019–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • > Burn it all down and start over We won't be the ones doing that. > We're going to have to figure this sustainability thing out though It may be already late. I wish it wasn't so. I think we could have chance at repairing …

    myshpa on Hacker News · 2023-07
    In How, Mathematically, We’re Fucked: Exponential growth on a finite planet

  • Check out this sobering talk by Dr Sid Smith where he says the same thing wrt oils and fossil fuels. [VIDEO]

    datashaman on Hacker News · 2019-05
    In Complex life may only exist because of millions of years of groundwork by fungi

  • > Computing saves millions of lives on a regular basis. Can't run modern agriculture or medicine or government without it. No, we couldn't have. Computing has killed us all. Good talk I watched the other day [VIDEO]

    chacha2 on Hacker News · 2020-06
    In Does computing make the world better?

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