{"id":25582,"date":"2017-09-13T10:29:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T15:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25582"},"modified":"2017-09-13T10:29:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T15:29:14","slug":"on-the-road-to-extinction-maybe-its-not-all-about-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25582","title":{"rendered":"On The Road To Extinction, Maybe It’s Not All About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

On The Road To Extinction, Maybe It’s Not All About Us<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The devastating consequences of human superiority over nature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We can\u2019t prevent the suffering and dying of wild life, and the Earth herself, when confronted by the unleashed forces of fire and water, but we can include them in our assessment of the cost. We might even grieve for them. Their losses are indeed ours, and if we do not see them or their importance to our lives, if we continue to either ignore and\/or dominate all other life on this planet, it won\u2019t be long till we join them.” (Photo: Flickr\/ChrisA1995\/cc)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is crystal clear\u2014unlike the smoky skies where I live–to most of us who are willing to consider the facts: this summer\u2019s \u2018natural\u2019 disasters have been seeded anthropogenically. \u00a0Wildfires in the northwestern United States and Canada, in Greenland, and in Europe are often referred to in the media as \u2018unprecedented\u2019 in size and fury. Hurricanes and monsoons, with their attendant floods and destruction, are routinely described as having a multitude of \u2018record-breaking\u2019 attributes. No one reading this is likely to need convincing that humans \u2013our sheer numbers as well as our habits\u2014have contributed significantly to rising planetary temperatures and thus, the plethora of somehow unexpected and catastrophic events in the natural world. I\u2019d like to include earthquakes, particularly those in Turkey (endless) and Mexico (massive), in this discussion, and while intuition tells me that there is a connection between them and climate change, research to support this supposition is just emerging, so for the nonce I will leave the earthquakes out of it.<\/p>\n

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On The Road To Extinction, Maybe It’s Not All About Us The devastating consequences of human superiority over nature. “We can\u2019t prevent the suffering and dying of wild life, and the Earth herself, when confronted by the unleashed forces of fire and water, but we can include them in our assessment of the cost. We […]<\/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":[7],"tags":[7669,15981,287,1686,1789],"class_list":["post-25582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-common-dreams","tag-elizabeth-west","tag-extinction","tag-humans","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25582","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=25582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25583,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25582\/revisions\/25583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}