Can Psychedelics Prevent Human Extinction?

Not necessarily, but it may be our best chance.

Note: I originally wrote this article in 2019. From my current vantage point in 2025, the logic of this original article is still sound, but it fails to take into account a more realistic solution to ecological collapse, which is food. As soon as my new blueprint for biosphere recovery is published, I will link to it here.

This article is written for people who are already aware of the fact that global ecological collapse is officially underway. I won’t venture to predict the outcome of this process. Nor will I focus on the outward symptoms of collapse, which are well-publicized. My intention is to unearth the root cause of this existential crisis and propose an unusual solution that may, in fact, be our best hope.

The Root Cause

The general problem is easily observed. The methods that contemporary humanity is using to advance the species are generating ecological costs that we cannot pay for, thus undermining the species’ ability to survive. Ecologically speaking, there is a long list of effects and positive feedback loops at play, of which atmospheric carbon is the most lethal. The cumulative result is the dying of the biosphere.