{"id":28965,"date":"2017-12-18T07:09:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T12:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28965"},"modified":"2017-12-18T07:09:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T12:09:42","slug":"the-broken-glass-some-thoughts-on-population-10-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28965","title":{"rendered":"The broken glass: some thoughts on \u2018Population 10 Billion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/smallfarmfuture.org.uk\/?p=1330\">The broken glass: some thoughts on \u2018Population 10 Billion\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Danny Dorling\u2019s book <em>Population 10 Billion<\/em><sup>1<\/sup> has been sitting in the in-tray of the Small Farm Future review department (along with a whole load of other books) for a couple of years now. I\u2019ve been on their case about it, but until now I\u2019ve had nothing from those slackers. Maybe I should introduce performance related pay\u2026 On which note, just a shout out for this blog\u2019s seasonal appeal for funds, Wikipedia-style: \u201cif every reader of Small Farm Future donated, er, about \u00a31,000 annually, I could devote myself to it full-time and turn out the reviews a lot faster.\u201d Or maybe I should make a pact with the devil and run ads. What d\u2019ya think? Meantime, donate button is on the right.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I <em>have <\/em>now read Dorling\u2019s book and I want to share a few thoughts about it. They\u2019re not in the form of a comprehensive warts-and-all review \u2013 rather, I want to highlight five themes of interest to me that anticipate some future posts, on which I think Dorling has thought-provoking things to say. And here they are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Possibilism and the broken glass<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dorling defines himself as a \u2018practical possibilist\u2019 in his orientation to the future, arguing that we need more \u201cstories that sit between those who say that all will be fine, and those who claim that we are doomed\u201d (p.6).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a good opening gambit, except that I think almost everyone occupies this \u2018possibilist\u2019 middle ground. Let\u2019s call those who think \u2018all will be fine\u2019 in the future the optimists or utopians, and let\u2019s call those who think that all of us are doomed no matter what we do from here the pessimists or dystopians. That leaves a very wide spectrum of opinion between those two poles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The broken glass: some thoughts on \u2018Population 10 Billion\u2019 Danny Dorling\u2019s book Population 10 Billion1 has been sitting in the in-tray of the Small Farm Future review department (along with a whole load of other books) for a couple of years now. I\u2019ve been on their case about it, but until now I\u2019ve had nothing [&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":[17563,15683,17560,12998,1371,17561,17562,9738],"class_list":["post-28965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-broken-glass","tag-chris-smaje","tag-danny-dorling","tag-global-population","tag-population","tag-population-10-billion","tag-possibilism","tag-small-farm-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28965","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=28965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28966,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28965\/revisions\/28966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}