{"id":25584,"date":"2017-09-13T10:38:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T15:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25584"},"modified":"2017-09-13T10:38:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T15:38:49","slug":"a-depressed-man-with-a-smiling-face-jorgen-randers-speaks-at-the-summer-school-of-the-club-of-rome-in-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25584","title":{"rendered":"A depressed man with a smiling face: Jorgen Randers speaks at the Summer School of the Club of Rome in Florence\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cassandralegacy.blogspot.co.at\/2017\/09\/a-depressed-man-with-smiling-face.html\">A depressed man with a smiling face: Jorgen Randers speaks at the Summer School of the Club of Rome in Florence\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"post-body-6967721645943163345\" class=\"post-body entry-content\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"separator\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-UeFrzTv8iJg\/WbfwmaKZk-I\/AAAAAAAAXuw\/q9sOfb3bCCgLeXK5WUB3bxmk6EzaWw6fACLcBGAs\/s640\/10IDEJorgen_Randers_7609.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"689\" data-original-width=\"1191\" \/><\/div>\n<div><i>This is not a picture taken at the summer school, but it is Jorgen Randers, the real one!<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jorgen Randers&#8217; speech at the Summer School at the Club of Rome has been dramatically different from the standard speech dealing with sustainability. Randers defined himself as a &#8220;depressed man with a smiling face&#8221; and he summarized his 47 years of work to promote sustainability as an utter failure. &#8220;We are worse off now,&#8221; he said, &#8220;than we were 50 years ago.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What went wrong? Randers asked to the audience to propose reasons. He got more than a dozen, from the financial system to greed. But he said that none of these is the real reason. It is not a fault of the government, it is not a fault of corporations, it is not a fault of banks. It is, simply, the fault of people. According to Randers, people are simply unable to postpone their immediate satisfaction for a better future. And that&#8217;s the problem today as it was 50 years ago.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Randers supported his opinion with the example of Norway, the country where he comes from. He said that he and other scientists had prepared a plan that would have zeroed the country&#8217;s emission by 2050 at a cost of some Eur 200 per person per year for 50 years. It was refused at all levels. The rich and well-educated people of Norway prefer to have an extra 200 Eurs to spend shopping in London rather than give an example of good management of the ecosystem to the world.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\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>A depressed man with a smiling face: Jorgen Randers speaks at the Summer School of the Club of Rome in Florence\u00a0 This is not a picture taken at the summer school, but it is Jorgen Randers, the real one! Jorgen Randers&#8217; speech at the Summer School at the Club of Rome has been dramatically different [&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":[7],"tags":[10777,7777,15982,769],"class_list":["post-25584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-cassandras-legacy","tag-club-of-rome","tag-jorgen-raiders","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25584","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=25584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25585,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25584\/revisions\/25585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}