{"id":22291,"date":"2016-12-18T15:54:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T20:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22291"},"modified":"2016-12-18T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T20:54:07","slug":"heal-the-planet-for-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22291","title":{"rendered":"Heal the Planet for Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nParisians duck down to evade German sniper fire following Nazi surrender of Paris, 1945<\/center>If you ever wondered what the odds are of mankind surviving, let alone \u2018defeating\u2019, climate change, look no further than the essay\u00a0the Guardian published this week, written by Michael Bloomberg and Mark Carney<\/a>. It proves beyond a moonlight shadow of a doubt that the odds are infinitesimally close to absolute zero (Kelvin, no Hobbes).<\/p>\n

Yes, Bloomberg is the media tycoon and former mayor of New York (which he famously turned into a 100% clean and recyclable city). And since central bankers are as we all know without exception experts on climate change, as much as they are on full-contact crochet, it makes perfect sense that Bank of England governor Carney adds his two -trillion- cents.<\/p>\n

Conveniently, you don\u2019t even have to read the piece, the headline tells you all you need and then some:\u00a0\u201cHow To Make A Profit From Defeating Climate Change\u201d\u00a0<\/a>really nails it. The entire mindset on display in just a few words. If that\u2019s what they went for, kudo\u2019s are due.<\/p>\n

These fine gents probably actually believe that this is perfectly in line with our knowledge of, say, human history, of evolution, of the laws of physics, and of -mass- psychology. All of which undoubtedly indicate to them that we can and will defeat the problems we have created -and still are-, literally with the same tools and ideas -money and profit- that we use to create them with. Nothing ever made more sense.<\/p>\n

That these problems originated in the same relentless quest for profit that they now claim will help us get rid of them, is likely a step too far for them; must have been a class they missed.\u00a0\u201cWe destroyed it for profit\u201d<\/i><\/b>\u00a0apparently does not in their eyes contradict\u00a0\u201cwe\u2019ll fix it for profit too\u201d<\/i><\/b>. Not one bit. It does, though. It\u2019s indeed the very core of what is going wrong.<\/p>\n

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Heal the Planet for Profit Parisians duck down to evade German sniper fire following Nazi surrender of Paris, 1945If you ever wondered what the odds are of mankind surviving, let alone \u2018defeating\u2019, climate change, look no further than the essay\u00a0the Guardian published this week, written by Michael Bloomberg and Mark Carney. It proves beyond a […]<\/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":[2,4],"tags":[2674,112,4118,263,14601,14602,536,588,1980,13924,4382,924,7261],"class_list":["post-22291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-automatic-earth","tag-carbon","tag-efficiency","tag-energy","tag-excess","tag-externalities","tag-money","tag-oil","tag-profit","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-solar","tag-waste","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22291","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=22291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22292,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22291\/revisions\/22292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}