{"id":22256,"date":"2016-12-10T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T22:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22256"},"modified":"2016-12-10T17:05:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T22:05:08","slug":"mass-extinction-and-mass-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22256","title":{"rendered":"Mass Extinction and Mass Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header title-container fix\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a class=\"entry-title\" title=\"Mass Extinction and Mass Insanity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2016\/12\/mass-extinction-and-mass-insanity\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mass Extinction and Mass Insanity<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-container fix\">\n<div class=\"entry fix\"><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hgr-O_5jbUA\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/CatersPinkElephant.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCaters\u00a0<b>Extremely rare albino elephant, Kruger National Park in South Africa<\/b><\/center><i>Everything dies, baby, that\u2019s a fact<br \/>\nBut maybe everything that dies someday comes back \u2026<\/i><br \/>\nSpringsteen, Atlantic City<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/HorLine300px.png\" \/><\/center><i>\u201cErwin Schrodinger (1945) has described life as a system in steady-state thermodynamic disequilibrium that maintains its constant distance from equilibrium (death) by feeding on low entropy from its environment \u2013 that is, by exchanging high-entropy outputs for low-entropy inputs. The same statement would hold verbatium as a physical description of our economic process. A corollary of this statement is that an organism cannot live in a medium of its own waste products.\u201d<\/i><br \/>\nHerman Daly and Kenneth Townsend<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/HorLine300px.png\" \/><\/center><b>What drives our economies is waste. Not need, or even demand. Waste. 2nd law of thermodynamics. It drives our lives, period.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>First of all, don\u2019t tell me you\u2019re trying to stop the ongoing extinction of nature and wildlife on this planet, or the destruction of life in general. Don\u2019t even tell me you\u2019re trying. Don\u2019t tell me it\u2019s climate change that we should focus on (that\u2019s just a small part of the story), and you\u2019re driving an electric car and you\u2019re separating your trash or things like that. That would only mean you\u2019re attempting to willfully ignore your share of destruction, because if you do it, so will others, and the planet can\u2019t take anymore of your behavior.<\/p>\n<p>This is the big one. And the only ones amongst us who don\u2019t think so are those who don\u2019t want to. Who think it\u2019s easier to argue that some problems are too big for them to tackle, that they should be left to others to solve. But why should we, why should anyone, worry about elections or even wars, when it becomes obvious we\u2019re fast approaching a time when such things don\u2019t matter much anymore?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass Extinction and Mass Insanity Caters\u00a0Extremely rare albino elephant, Kruger National Park in South AfricaEverything dies, baby, that\u2019s a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back \u2026 Springsteen, Atlantic City \u201cErwin Schrodinger (1945) has described life as a system in steady-state thermodynamic disequilibrium that maintains its constant distance from equilibrium (death) by feeding [&hellip;]<\/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":[141,9415,1330,5330,287,14580,5730,10162,1314,13924,5177,14581,924],"class_list":["post-22256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-delusion","tag-denial","tag-entropy","tag-extinction","tag-hawking","tag-insanity","tag-mars","tag-murder","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-vertebrates","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22256","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=22256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22257,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22256\/revisions\/22257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}