{"id":27844,"date":"2017-11-11T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T14:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27844"},"modified":"2017-11-11T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T14:25:30","slug":"the-destruction-of-a-vast-transnational-nursery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27844","title":{"rendered":"The Destruction of a Vast Transnational Nursery?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Destruction of a Vast Transnational Nursery?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Back in May 2013, a word came to mind that I wanted to see in all our vocabularies.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t the ever-present \u201cterrorist\u201d but \u201cterrarist\u201d and I meant it to describe people intent on destroying the planetary environment that had welcomed and nurtured so many species, including our own, for so long; in other words, human beings willing to commit \u201cterracide.\u201d\u00a0 I had in mind the CEOs of the biggest energy companies, the ones whose scientists understood<\/a> global warming perfectly well decades ago and who still were ready to put their<\/a> corporate money into supporting<\/a> climate denialism. At the time I wrote<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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\u201cIf the oil execs aren\u2019t terrarists, then who is?\u00a0 And if that doesn\u2019t make the big energy companies criminal enterprises, then how would you define that term? To destroy our planet with malice aforethought, with only the most immediate profits on the brain, with only your own comfort and wellbeing (and those of your shareholders) in mind: Isn\u2019t that the ultimate crime? Isn\u2019t that terracide?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, that was in the good old days before Donald Trump and his cronies filled a whole administration to the tipping point<\/a> with so-called climate skeptics and outright climate-change denialists.\u00a0 And this continues <\/a>to happen, even as one report or study after another confirms that humanity and its fossil fuels are heating<\/a> the planet at a remarkable rate and filling<\/a> its atmosphere with carbon dioxide at a record pace.\u00a0 In the end, Trump and his crew may prove to be the biggest collection of criminals — in terms of harm to this world — ever.\u00a0 And it should be considered a historical irony (of sorts) that, on this issue, the Republicans, once the American party of the environment, are with them<\/a> all the way.<\/p>\n

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The Destruction of a Vast Transnational Nursery? Back in May 2013, a word came to mind that I wanted to see in all our vocabularies.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t the ever-present \u201cterrorist\u201d but \u201cterrarist\u201d and I meant it to describe people intent on destroying the planetary environment that had welcomed and nurtured so many species, including our […]<\/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":[3,4],"tags":[1018,7844,1019,595,16962,6463],"class_list":["post-27844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-arctic","tag-donald-trump","tag-oil-drilling","tag-oil-production","tag-subhankar-banerjee","tag-tom-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27844","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=27844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27845,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27844\/revisions\/27845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}