Robert Chapman and The Next Human Die Off
The Next Human Die Off was originally written as a scholarly piece. After all, a book about major human die offs and the evolutionary consequences of these events is pretty heavy for the average dinner conversation. I intended it to be a way to educate people on what I felt was the inevitable end to our dependence on fossil fuels (as well as a vehicle to get my thoughts out of my brain and to put them on paper).
However, with the recent coronavirus pandemic and the disease associated with it, COVID-19, the book has become much more relevant in a way I had not originally intended. What my co-founder discretely termed an “alternate opinion” on world events has now become mainstream, almost literally overnight.
My book deals with human tragedies and mass deaths – famines, plagues, epidemics and pandemics, and mass death by war and politicides. I discuss events like the Black Plague, the Irish Potato Famine, and the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. While the topic is admittedly grim, the overall thesis of the book is that these are evolutionary events that benefit the survivors of these occurrences.
Now, in 2020, we are watching the latest pandemic unfold. My sister, who also saw one of the first drafts, called me a few days ago and asked me “So, do you feel justified yet?” The answer is – yes and no. While some of the things I’ve predicted and discussed in my book are unfolding right now in this modern world, we are still far away from the mass death event that will have an evolutionary effect on humans as a species. I feel that the coronavirus is just a preview to The Next Human Die Off.