{"id":20055,"date":"2016-04-19T21:14:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T02:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20055"},"modified":"2016-04-19T21:14:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T02:14:33","slug":"remembrance-of-things-yet-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20055","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance of Things Yet to Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xg_headline xg_headline-img xg_headline-2l\">\n<div class=\"tb\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/transitionmilwaukee.org\/profiles\/blogs\/remembrance-of-things-yet-to-come\">Remembrance of Things Yet to Come<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Remembrance of Things Yet to Come: A Response to Ted Trainer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"xg_module_body\">\n<div class=\"postbody\">\n<div class=\"xg_user_generated\">\n<p>I\u2019m going to make divert slightly from my previously\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2016-04-11\/ecotheology-limits-and-freedom\">anticipated track<\/a>\u00a0to respond to Ted Trainer\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2016-04-06\/a-critique-of-leigh-phillips-assertion-of-the-tech-fix-ecomodernist-faith\">valuable critique<\/a>\u00a0of Leigh Phillip\u2019s much-maligned celebration of ecomodernism,\u00a0<i>Austerity Ecology and the Collapse-Porn Addicts<\/i>\u00a0(2015). \u00a0\u00a0I agree with much of Trainer\u2019s critique, and am particularly thankful for his delineation of the mathematical fantasy of continued economic growth, as well as his demystification of the dream of \u201cdecoupling,\u201d so often used to animate this fantasy.\u00a0 The limits to growth do indeed render the ecomodernists plan silly at best.\u00a0 We have yet to see a case made for a continuation of modernity or the creation of a hyper-modernity not based on serious exclusions.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I find the alternative vision for the future that Trainer suggests improbable as well, though I should also add that it is only presented briefly in the article in question.\u00a0 There, Trainer seems to imagine a future in which we might pick and choose from the bounty of modernism and the sustainable wisdom of pre-modern times so as to put together a rational society that is pleasingly moderate and modest, alike, yet adorned with high-tech festoons.\u00a0 This view is common within \u201cenvironmentalist\u201d circles, where the well-situated liberal consumer entertain serious elements of sustainability, but with no real intention on cutting the umbilical cord to modernity and prosperity.\u00a0 Here, nevertheless, is how Trainer describes it, criticizing Phillip\u2019s view that anything but continued modernization and across-the-board growth and innovation will do.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most importantly, apparently Phillips cannot grasp that we could opt for a combination of elements from different points on the path.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembrance of Things Yet to Come Remembrance of Things Yet to Come: A Response to Ted Trainer I\u2019m going to make divert slightly from my previously\u00a0anticipated track\u00a0to respond to Ted Trainer\u2019s\u00a0valuable critique\u00a0of Leigh Phillip\u2019s much-maligned celebration of ecomodernism,\u00a0Austerity Ecology and the Collapse-Porn Addicts\u00a0(2015). \u00a0\u00a0I agree with much of Trainer\u2019s critique, and am particularly thankful for 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