As of 3.18.26. We are still working on scheduling the upgrade of the page below, which was just transferred from our old website. In the meantime, we strongly suggest that you start by learning and practicing the Universe Principles of Right Actions and Right Attitude. In one way or another, they are the practical, day-to-day core of everything we do and most of what we teach.

We are sometimes asked, Are you a survivalist organization?

After reviewing all the scary future consequences of the 13 major challenges of our future on the Universe Spirit and Job One for Humanity websites, it is only fair to wonder if we are some group of survivalists or end of the world preppers, doomers, or avid supporters of the growing "near-term human extinction" or post-doom movements.

We are definitely not!

Our focus is education and engaged social activism! We are Evolutioneers, not survivalists.

We are, however, also 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 in time from our own bad decisions, or without even worse side effects. 

We also do not support the growing premise that total human extinction sometime in the rest of this century is certain. The qualified truth is that only if we do not come close to the 2026 global fossil fuel reduction targets will the likelihood of a large-scale Heumann die-off become our most urgent threat. Furthermore, in the very worst-case scenario, other than nuclear war, total extinction will take at least another 50-70 years to enter its final phases.

Therefore, do not panic. All is not lost --- yet! We still have some time left (to about 2026 and likely a few years longer) to make the critically needed global fossil fuel reduction targets.  

On the other hand, it is also essential to be equally candid that many horrendous consequences of global warming and related issues are already "baked into" our global systems, and many of those consequences are now unavoidable! These already "baked in" consequences will eventually still cause the die-off of much of humanity by mid-century. 

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

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

Managing our 13 worst global crises will require nothing less than radical global changes to our current lifestyles and livelihoods. At the same time, we will also have to vigorously prepare for and adapt to the catastrophic consequences 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. Then 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, respectively.

Do not mistake us for some survivalist or apocalyptic community, given 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 a doomer or a fatalistic message:

1. "We are a community of Evolutioneer activists that believe in learning from our mistakes, being prepared, and that 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. In the last 4.5 billion years of Earth's evolution, life has survived 5 previous mass extinctions. (See this page for more on life's evolutionary success.)

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

5. When we or future generations do get through our current 1 3 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.  

6. 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.

7. In spite of the rough road ahead, we can still fully enjoy each day (as best as we can, even in spite of the worsening of these 13 global challenges).

8. 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,

9. We are not survivalists or end-of-the-world preppers, doomers, or avid supporters of the growing "near-term human extinction" or post-doom movements. If you want to call us by some new name, call us post-collapse Evolutioneers and thrivers. This name better reflects our focus on doing everything needed to get through this transition and thrive in the post-collapse future.

As Michael Dowd, the evolutionary teacher, likes to say, "what really matters is coming back into the right relationship with reality." Because humanity has repeatedly failed to effectively resolve the escalating global warming emergency, as well as our other 12 deteriorating global challenges, we are forced, by their unthinkable and unbearable consequences, to return to the right relationship with reality and with each other, or we will eventually perish.

The power of reality is the force motivating us to evolve, and it is truly great news!

Have no doubt about it: humanity has reached a monumental evolutionary juncture, and we are running out of time to prevent our eventual extinction. Only a comprehensive mass mobilization by our governments can lessen the suffering to come and save the future. 

In our organization, we see ourselves as a new evolutionary community of Evolutioneers and Planetary and Universe Citizens who value the historical wisdom of appropriate threat preparedness and sustainable living 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, positive evolutionary fear-warning feedback embedded in accurate but survival-negative information to anticipate, prepare, and adapt quickly.

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, are living in hiding or resignation. We are also sustainability activists, still full of hope that we can:

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

2. Create the new 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 communities in advance for this human-created crisis and this temporary, transitional "evolutionary bottleneck and retrogression." We are doing this solely because the current facts clearly shout that many of our global systems are in a severe challenge or are 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, the main accelerator and driver of humanity's total extinction is now global warming. 

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 are described here.)  

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

It is also critical to keep our dangerous global threats in an appropriate time perspective 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 dangerous juncture in the evolution of humanity, given the many 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 for why the emotion of fear exists. The positive use of fear exists 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), here are the critical deadlines to remember: 

a. The 5-year deadline: (From now until the end of 2026.) At this time, it is appropriate to acknowledge that it is all but impossible for us to meet the full 2026 global fossil fuel reduction targets! But we still have enough time left to slow down (but not avoid) a mid-century mass extinction event for much of humanity by getting close to it over the next several years. Although we have passed the point of avoiding the die-off of much of humanity by 2050, we can still maintain some level of control over our future amid global warming. Most importantly, we can still prevent total extinction by at least getting very close to the 2026 global fossil fuel reduction targets! 

This total extinction danger also means we have to educate the world about the extinction-evoking global-warming tipping-point deadlines of this emergency, after preparing our personal survival-and-thrive provisions and/or creating safe, sustainable community cooperatives or sanctuaries. 

b. The 5-10-year deadline: (This assumes we will miss the 2026 global fossil fuel reduction targets and did not get close to them.) From 2026 to 2035, the consequences of global warming will steadily worsen along a rising, steeper linear trajectory. More people will wisely migrate to safer areas. Millions more will die because of climate-related food shortages and other global warming-related catastrophes. 

If you have prepared, adapted, and moved to a safer location in a global-warming context before 2027-29, and have a good Plan B in place, depending on your location, relative stability and security for family and business are probable until about 2030-2040. (See this Plan B page, which discusses how to prepare in the safest locations and what are the least safe places to ride out the global warming extinction emergency.)

c. The 10-15 year deadline: (This assumes we will miss the 2026 global fossil fuel reduction targets, and we did not get close to the 2026 targets.) After 2030-2035, many other climate, human, ecological, political, and economic tipping points will be crossed due to the consequences of global warming, which amplifies the impacts of most of these 13 other critical global challenges. 

The stability and security of even the safest and best-prepared global warming-safe locations will diminish and become increasingly difficult to maintain. Those individuals in supportive cooperatives or sustainable communities should be significantly safer and better adapted than those who are not.

d. The 15-25 year deadline: (This assumes we will miss the 2026 global fossil fuel reduction targets and we did not get close to meeting these targets.) Beginning around 2030, the frequency, severity, and size of 20 worst global warming consequences will move from a steeply rising linear progression into an exponential progression. Stability and security for even the best-prepared, safer global-warming locations, cooperatives, and sustainable communities will become far more difficult and dangerous.

e. The 25-30-year deadline: (This assumes we will miss the 2026 global fossil fuel reduction targets, and at least we got close to them or compensated for these targets somewhere over this time period.) By mid-century, extinction for much of humanity will still be unavoidable. From 2030 to 2050 will be the riskiest period for most of society to survive. Generally, things will be better in safer global-warming locations, in special cooperatives, and in sustainable communities. But even there, survival is far from guaranteed without the highest levels of preparation, adaptation, and cooperation.

f. The 50-year deadline: (This assumes we will miss the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets and unfortunately, we did not even get close to them.) In this case, we will face the worst consequences of runaway global warming and head toward the onset of the runaway greenhouse effect that ripped the atmosphere off Venus. Because of this escalating, runaway global warming and humanity's failure to get close to the 2025 reduction targets, humanity will, unfortunately, finally face a total extinction event beginning as soon as 2070-2100. We call this the full Climageddon Scenario.

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

In Summary

We believe it is important not to hide these reasonable, rational facts and high probabilities.

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

We are not detached, survivalists. We are engaged sustainability advocates, Evolutioneers, and Planetary Citizens. 

We can make it through this great evolutionary transition period, capture the once-in-a-generation opportunity from the collective catharsis of the pandemic catastrophe, and then use that energy to make long-overdue and critically needed improvements to our social systems! 

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

We believe wholeheartedly in working for the best possible future while also being prepared for the worst-case scenario of a temporary human transition period. 

We fully prepare for the worst, then "forget" those preparations while focusing wholeheartedly on the best!

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

We hold that some of us will prepare, adapt, survive, and thrive once again if we act wisely. We should not give up the small amount of rational, appropriate hope that remains. The history of life evolving on Earth strongly supports the premise that some of us will survive. (See this page with the big picture view of evolution on Earth.)

We envision that the establishment of new sustainable communities around the world will play an essential role in securing humanity's long-term survival and in establishing a new vision of sustainable prosperity for the post-widespread-collapse world.

We will address our 13 global challenges using only peaceful, evolutionary means.

We can still find daily enjoyment and joy in our relationships and life experiences, no matter how bad it gets.

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

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

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 is predicted by our best scientists, the new sustainable 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 communities --- all of which align with and forward the progressive evolution of life in the universe.

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

The good news is that if we want to survive and lessen the suffering to come, we need to execute this plan NOW. 

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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 covers the challenging emotional process most people go through after realizing we are providing an accurate, big-picture view of their future risks and probabilities.

Next, see this page for the surprising benefits of accepting the challenge to fix it. This benefits page has been viewed over a million times.

"You cannot be called an alarmist if there really is something to be alarmed about." Unknown

Important upgrade note: We are still migrating 25 years' worth of materials from the older Universe Spirit website (about 1,000 pages) to this new Universe Spirit website. During this upgrade process, we will eventually move all new Way of the Universe philosophy materials still on the newer Universe Spirit website to its own site.

For all important information relating to this massive Universe Spirit upgrade, click here. We strongly recommend reading this detailed explanation of the massive upgrade underway, so you also understand our strategy and the reason for any confusion that you might experience with our ongoing edits on unedited pages transfered to our new website, remaining broken links, links still going to our old website, and sometimes conflicting terminology still found on pages at the new Universe Spirit website where we have not yet completed our editing upgrades. We hope to be fully done with this massive upgrade by January 2027.