If evolution got us into this mess, why can't evolution get us out of it?
Welcome to the Darwin Awards Newsletter, wherein author Wendy Darwin shines a dark light on the cringeworthy 'Homo non-sapiens' fucking up our planet.
Traditional Darwin Awards winners go solo to grab the brass ring. Drivers accelerating to shoot a drawbridge gap. Performers juggling hand-grenades. Ever popular Selfie-Stick deaths, etc. But is all this ‘natural selection’ getting us anywhere? No! Evolution is simply not able to weed out bad decision makers at the speed we need to succeed.
So. Today the Darwin Awards team pivots to face the bigger picture.
Today we are shorting stock in the fantastic enterprise, Humanity Inc.
Today we celebrate the impending Human Extinction Event!
Surrounded by species-wide blunders, destructive delusions, and a profound indifference to facts, Homo sapiens sapiens drunkenly teeters on fabulous spike heels toward the cattle guard on the road to extinction. Survival limiting dung-heaps are dropping everywhere. Planetary extinctions. Agricultural soil loss. Exponential growth. The game of money. Social algorithms. Conspiracy theories. Gol, we are even using all the SAND on the planet!?! Where is all of this leading?
The Darwin Awards investigators follow along with camera and microphone, to record and distill the essence of the situation—and perhaps build a few speed bumps on the road to ruination.
Who am I to say? I’m a scientist and ’thanatologist’ trained in Molecular Biology at UC Berkeley and Stanford, a binge consumer of peer reviewed literature that reports and contextualizes bleeding edge research And I have solemn news. Our self-created reality is not in the best interest of our species, Captain Obvious.
This newsletter will discuss, educate, and spark discussion on how a human hive mind is witlessly working towards the collapse of the colony. I seek to inspire people smarter than myself to attempt to reprogram the code. And oh surely we will have some fun along the way, laughing loudly as we sing bawdy dirges, share drink recipes, and hoot at the appalling madding crowd.
Motto: “We keep sinking to new heights.”
-Homo non-sapiens
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