Guy McPherson

Guy R. McPherson is an American scientist, professor emeritus[2] of natural resources and ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona.[3][4] He is known for the idea of Near-Term Human Extinction (NTHE), a term he coined[4] about the likelihood of human extinction by 2026.[5][6][7]

Guy R. McPherson
EducationBS, University of Idaho (1982)

MS, Texas Tech University (1984)

PhD, Texas Tech University (1987)[1]
Alma materUniversity of Idaho
WebsiteOfficial website

Biography

McPherson's career as a professor began at Texas A&M University, where he taught for one academic year. He taught for twenty years at the University of Arizona,[8] and also taught at the University of California-Berkeley, Southern Utah University, and Grinnell College. McPherson has served as an expert witness for legal cases involving land management and wildfires.[9] He has published more than 55 peer-reviewed publications.[10] In May 2009, McPherson began living on an off-grid homestead in southern New Mexico. He then moved to Belize in July 2016. He moved to New York in October of 2018.[11]

In November 2015, McPherson was interviewed on National Geographic Explorer with host Bill Nye.[12] Andrew Revkin in The New York Times said McPherson was an "apocalyptic ecologist ... who has built something of an 'End of Days' following."[12] Michael Tobis, a climate scientist from the University of Wisconsin, said McPherson "is not the opposite of a denialist. He is a denialist, albeit of a different stripe."[13] David Wallace-Wells writing in The Uninhabitable Earth (2019) called McPherson a "climate Gnostic" and on the "fringe,"[14] while climate scientist Michael E. Mann said he was a "doomist cult hero."[15]

Publications
  • McPherson, G.R., D.D. Wade, and C.B. Phillips (compilers). 1990. Glossary of Fire Management Terms Used in the United States. Society of American Foresters, Bethesda, Maryland.
  • McPherson, G.R. 1997. Ecology and Management of North American Savannas. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
  • McPherson, G.R. and S. DeStefano. 2003. Applied Ecology and Natural Resource Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.
  • Weltzin, J.F. and G.R. McPherson (editors). 2003. Changing Precipitation Regimes and Terrestrial Ecosystems. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
  • McPherson, G.R. 2004. Killing the Natives: Has the American Dream Become a Nightmare? Whitmore Publishing Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • McPherson, G.R. 2006. Letters to a Young Academic: Seeking Teachable Moments. Rowman & Littlefield Education, Lanham, Maryland.
  • Brothers, Mac. 2006. Academic Pursuits. PublishAmerica, Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Jensen, S.E. and G.R. McPherson. 2008. Living with Fire: Fire Ecology and Policy for the Twenty-first Century. University of California Press, Berkeley.
  • Esparza, A.X. and G.R. McPherson (editors). 2009. The Planner's Guide to Natural Resource Conservation: The Science of Land Development Beyond the Metropolitan Fringe. Springer, New York.
  • McPherson, G.R. 2011. Walking Away from Empire: A Personal Journey. PublishAmerica, Baltimore, Maryland.
  • McPherson, G.R. 2013. Going Dark. PublishAmerica, Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Baker, C. and G.R. McPherson. 2014. Extinction Dialogs: How to Live with Death in Mind. Tayen Lane Publishing.
  • Schneider, P. and G.R. McPherson. 2015. Ms. Ladybug and Mr. Honeybee: A Love Story at the End of Time. America Star Books, Baltimore, Maryland.
  • McPherson, G.R. 2019. Only Love Remains: Dancing at the Edge of Extinction. Woodthrush Productions, Pleasantville, New York.
  • McPherson, G.R. 2019. "Becoming Hope-Free: Parallels Between Death of Individuals and Extinction of Homo sapiens" Clinical Psychology Forum, No 317, May 2019.

References
  1. https://cals.arizona.edu/~grm/history.html
  2. "Chances high for another dry winter in Monterey County". The Salinas Californian. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  3. Guy M. McPherson. "Guy R. McPherson Faculty Page". University of Arizona. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  4. Nathan Curry (August 21, 2013). "Humanity Is Getting Verrrrrrry Close to Extinction". Vice.com. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  5. Jamail, Dahr. "Mass Extinction: It's the End of the World as We Know It". Truthout. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  6. Richardson, John H. "When the End of Human Civilization is your Day Job". Esquire. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  7. Anna Majavu (November 6, 2014). "Africa: Climate Change No Longer Linear". AllAfrica.com. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  8. "Guy R. McPherson Faculty Page: Academic History". University of Arizona. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
  9. Guy M. McPherson. "Guy R. McPherson Faculty Page: Services". University of Arizona. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  10. "Refereed Journal Articles - Guy R. McPherson". cals.arizona.edu.
  11. "What I Live For". weeklyhubris.com.
  12. Andrew Revkin (October 31, 2015). "National Geographic Explores Bill Nye's Climate Change Denial – and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Analysis". The New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  13. Michael Tobis (March 13, 2014). "McPherson's Evidence That Doom Doom Doom". Planet3.0. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  14. Roger Pielke (March 8, 2019). "The Uninhabitable Earth — future imperfect". Financial Times. Retrieved May 14, 2019. We are introduced to Guy McPherson and Paul Kingsnorth, called “climate Gnostics” by Wallace-Wells, both of whom have dropped out of society to await the climate rapture. It seems that Wallace-Wells introduces these “fringe” characters to normalise his own apocalyptic vision, as if to say: You think I’m out there? Look at these guys.
  15. Michael E. Mann (July 12, 2017). "Doomsday scenarios are as harmful as climate change denial". Retrieved May 14, 2019.
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