{"id":10615,"date":"2015-08-01T08:50:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T13:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10615"},"modified":"2015-08-01T08:50:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T13:50:17","slug":"western-style-catastrophism-a-few-questions-for-my-russian-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10615","title":{"rendered":"Western style Catastrophism: a few questions for my Russian readers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Western style Catastrophism: a few questions for my Russian readers<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\n<\/i>Weekly page views\u00a0of “Resource Crisis”\u00a0on July 30, 2015. Note how Russia is the largest non-English\u00a0speaking country in the list. These data are not the result of \u00a0any special post about Russia, they are a normal feature of the blog. \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
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I don’t need to say that I\u00a0am very pleased for the success that this blog is having in Russia. Russia is a country that I know reasonably well, I know the people, the places, nature, a little of the language and, well, about countries you can use the verb “like” regarding your attitudes toward it; but you can also use the verb “love.” Personally, I would feel more inclined to use the latter term in regard to my personal feelings regarding Russia.<\/p>\n

This said, however, I am curious about why exactly “Resource Crisis” is having so much success in Russia. It is true that I have posted a few times about matters regarding Russia, but this is not, by any means, a Russia-oriented blog. And, for what I know about Russia, the general attitude, there, is not at all “catastrophistic” as this blog is.<\/p>\n

So, I thought I could dedicate a post to this subject and ask my Russian readers (and also\u00a0non\u00a0Russian ones) if they can spare a little of their time to comment on some questions that I am asking to myself and to them.<\/p>\n

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Western style Catastrophism: a few questions for my Russian readers Weekly page views\u00a0of “Resource Crisis”\u00a0on July 30, 2015. Note how Russia is the largest non-English\u00a0speaking country in the list. These data are not the result of \u00a0any special post about Russia, they are a normal feature of the blog. \u00a0 I don’t need to say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7751,150,3512,694,2692],"class_list":["post-10615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-catastrophism","tag-collapse","tag-resource-crisis","tag-russia","tag-ugo-bardi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10616,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615\/revisions\/10616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}