{"id":13081,"date":"2015-10-06T07:27:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T12:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13081"},"modified":"2015-10-06T07:27:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T12:27:16","slug":"an-unprecedented-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13081","title":{"rendered":"An Unprecedented Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Unprecedented Future<\/a><\/h3>\n

I can see\u00a0The Age of Consequences<\/em>\u00a0from my home.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We live on a former ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico, that is now a subdivision with more than two thousand houses. Due to its proximity to a center of colonial Spanish, Mexican, and American administrations, as well as the Santa Fe Trail, the land where live has hosted a variety of livestock for nearly 400 years. In the 1950s, the owner of the 13,000-acre ranch invested in new wells, dirt tanks, roads and a ranch house complex, complete with a swimming pool, in an effort to create a prosperous cattle operation on the property. This effort continued for two decades, right up to the day the ranch was sold to a real estate company, who had a different definition of prosperity in mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of all the artifacts left over from the ranch\u2019s heyday, the one that I\u2019ve watched closely over the years are the old dirt roads.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When we moved to the subdivision in 2003, the former ranch roads were still in decent shape, especially in the greenbelts where houses were excluded. Mostly two-tracks, the roads were easy to follow. As my wife and I walked our dogs and chatted side-by-side, we could pick out features of the ranch as we strolled, including dirt tanks for cattle and evidence of tree-cutting from days long gone. There was a timelessness at play in these parts of the old ranch, a feeling that despite the crop of houses, the land in between hadn\u2019t changed much over the decades \u2013 a feeling that history would endure somehow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t feel that way anymore.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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An Unprecedented Future I can see\u00a0The Age of Consequences\u00a0from my home. We live on a former ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico, that is now a subdivision with more than two thousand houses. Due to its proximity to a center of colonial Spanish, Mexican, and American administrations, as well as the Santa Fe Trail, the […]<\/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":[4],"tags":[3134,9651,4609,141,234,341],"class_list":["post-13081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-age-of-consequences","tag-carbon-pilgrim","tag-change","tag-climate-change","tag-ecology","tag-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13081","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=13081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13082,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13081\/revisions\/13082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}