{"id":29016,"date":"2017-12-20T07:38:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T12:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29016"},"modified":"2017-12-20T07:38:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T12:38:19","slug":"what-will-it-really-take-to-avoid-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29016","title":{"rendered":"What Will It Really Take to Avoid\u00a0Collapse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patternsofmeaning.com\/2017\/12\/19\/what-will-it-really-take-to-avoid-collapse\/\">What Will It Really Take to Avoid\u00a0Collapse?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>Fifteen thousand scientists have issued a dire warning to humanity about impending collapse but virtually no-one takes notice. Ultimately, our global systems, which are designed for perpetual growth, need to be fundamentally restructured to avoid the worst-case outcome. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>For a moment, the most important news in the entire world flashed across the media like a shooting star in the night sky. Then it was gone. Last month, over fifteen thousand scientists from 184 countries <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/bioscience\/article\/67\/12\/1026\/4605229\">issued a dire warning<\/a> to humanity. Because of our overconsumption of the world\u2019s resources, they declared, we are facing \u201cwidespread misery and catastrophic biodiversity loss.\u201d They warned that time is running out: \u201cSoon it will be too late to shift course away from our failing trajectory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first such notice. Twenty-five years ago, in 1992, 1,700 scientists (including the majority of living Nobel laureates) sent a similarly worded warning to governmental leaders around the world. In ringing tones, they called for a recognition of the earth\u2019s fragility and a new ethic arising from the realization that \u201cwe all have but one lifeboat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This second warning contains a series of charts showing how utterly the world\u2019s leaders ignored what they were told twenty-five years earlier. Whether it\u2019s CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions, temperature change, ocean dead zones, freshwater resources, vertebrate species, or total forest cover, the grim charts virtually all point in the same dismal direction, indicating continued momentum toward doomsday. The chart for marine catch shows something even scarier: in 1996, the catch peaked at 130 million tonnes and in spite of massively increased industrial fishing, it\u2019s been declining ever since\u2014a harbinger of the kind of overshoot that unsustainable exploitation threatens across the board.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Will It Really Take to Avoid\u00a0Collapse? Fifteen thousand scientists have issued a dire warning to humanity about impending collapse but virtually no-one takes notice. Ultimately, our global systems, which are designed for perpetual growth, need to be fundamentally restructured to avoid the worst-case outcome. For a moment, the most important news in the entire [&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":[72,146,150,4553,17592,17593,17591,7213,3197,13248,17590,14581,6593],"class_list":["post-29016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-biodiversity","tag-co2-emissions","tag-collapse","tag-forests","tag-freshwater","tag-industrial-fishing","tag-ocean-dead-zones","tag-overconsumption","tag-overshoot","tag-patterns-of-meaning","tag-temperature-change","tag-vertebrates","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29016","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=29016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29017,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29016\/revisions\/29017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}