{"id":14954,"date":"2015-12-01T16:57:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T21:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14954"},"modified":"2015-12-01T16:57:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T21:57:45","slug":"shrinking-the-technosphere-part-viii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14954","title":{"rendered":"Shrinking the Technosphere, Part VIII"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shrinking the Technosphere, Part VIII<\/a><\/h3>\n
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This series of blog posts offers a preview to a book which is yet to be written. Since it is turning out to be a rather long series, it seems fair to recap, to give you an idea of where we have been and where we are going. We started with a discussion of how the contemporary living arrangement, in the US specifically, but also in various other so-called \u201cdeveloped nations,\u201d has become entirely untenable, because it forces us to rely on a suite of technologies that is unsustainable and catastrophic for the environment. These technologies are forced upon us by a set of political technologies that rob us of our power and will to pick and choose what technologies we use. We have also reviewed another set of political technologies\u2014ones that are used to destroy nations around the world should they prove unwilling to go along with the deranged master plan.<\/p>\n

We haven\u2019t yet discussed what political technologies can be used \u2013 and are used with an increasing degree of success \u2013 to bring this forced death march to a halt. But that\u2019s coming. Instead we took a grand detour, to look at what the best-case scenario looks like if it is, in fact, brought to a halt, if the political technologies that are being used to destroy both society and the biosphere are swept away. And it turns out that the best-case scenario is still pretty bad, because of all the unwelcome developments that are already baked into the cake, such as:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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  • Ocean levels rising by at least 30m, putting the coastal cities in which two-thirds of the population lives either partially or fully underwater.<\/li>\n
  • Average temperatures rising by around 17\u00b0C, resulting in heat waves in which electric grids, and the air conditioners they power, fail, and major metropolitan areas are depopulated by heat stroke.<\/li>\n
  • Disappearance of mountain glaciers which feed river systems on which major agricultural areas depend for irrigation, resulting in depopulation due to mass starvation in many countries.\n

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