Well, Jamie, you’re mistaken.
If you bother to take a look at all my writing, I write fiction, poetry, about interior design, astrology, humanity, how to write, climate change, politics, economics, and I don’t know what else. The fact that I have become quite visible on Medium is the same reason I became one of the most followed people on Google Plus. In those days, three or four times a week, I would hit up to 1.5 million reads. I repeated the same thing on Quora – from day one, I did 600K a month. I erased my account three times, and will not go back again.
Some of my articles were at the top of Google search results for a decade, and none of them had anything to do with doom.
Let me put into you bluntly. I am a damned good writer, get people’s attention, am gifted, and have been published for 60 years on three continents.
I also want to clarify. I do NOT make a living from writing doomsday stories. I make a living as a writer, and I write about many, many different things.
The fact that you and others don’t want to know how bad things are is the real problem. Cryptocurrency should NOT exist in our world. It is contributing immensely to climate change with its enormous use of electricity. And you’re promoting it? Is that why you don’t want to know how bad things are? Is it uncomfortable and scary knowing how bad things are?
If you actually did take an interest in just what exactly is happening to our planet as a result of the lifestyle choices of 95% of people on this planet, maybe you might understand why some of us – with the intelligence and the education – say that there is precious little hope.
The reason that there is precious little hope is this: People want to buy cryptocurrency, get rich, have a second home, use aircon, own a car, and refuse point blank to stop consuming. That is 100% the reason that there is no hope.
So, please, stop telling people like me that we are writing doomsday stories in order to make money. We are writing the facts. And we are desperately hoping that people pay attention to them.
Clearly, people like you don’t. You would rather accuse us of writing factual information because we’re profiting from it than consider that we’re writing it in order to try and get people to give up their dreams and their lfiestyles.
