{"id":29797,"date":"2018-01-17T07:50:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T12:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29797"},"modified":"2018-01-17T07:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T12:50:55","slug":"defying-dystopia-shaping-the-climate-future-we-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29797","title":{"rendered":"Defying Dystopia: Shaping the Climate Future We Want"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Defying Dystopia: Shaping the Climate Future We Want<\/a><\/h3>\n

We live in an age of dystopias on demand. Whether it\u2019s <\/span>Black Mirror<\/em>, <\/span>The Hunger Games<\/em> or <\/span>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>, there is no limit to satiating our desires for dark, apocalyptic visions of the future. Unfortunately the scariest experience does not involve the world of the imaginary; it just requires reading the latest climate science.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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In one such piece in July 2017, New York Magazine<\/em> managed to pull together all the possible worst-case climate scenarios in a longread called \u201cThe Uninhabitable Earth<\/a>.\u201d Through interviews with climate scientists, it painted a world of bacterial plagues escaping from melting ice, devastating droughts and floods so frequent they are just called \u201cweather,\u201d and biblical-like tableaus of entire nations on the move. The piece is bleaker than the darkest of sci-fi, because there is no way of dismissing it as fiction.<\/p>\n

Facing our fears of climate crisis is one of the biggest challenges we face as activists. Not a week goes by without warnings of an \u201cice apocalypse<\/a>\u201d or a \u201cpoint of no return<\/a>.\u201d We are bombarded with bleak visions of the future. And it\u2019s a challenge that we continue to struggle with \u2014 one we have mainly filled with demands for action. For a long time, the answer was to provide easy actions that people could take so they could feel empowered. But it was soon evident that no amount of energy-saving lightbulbs was going to halt the capitalist juggernaut. Now the answer, from the left at least, is that we must confront capitalism to overcome climate change. Yet this can hardly be described as an easy win, or likely to allay our fears of a dangerous future.<\/p>\n

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Defying Dystopia: Shaping the Climate Future We Want We live in an age of dystopias on demand. Whether it\u2019s Black Mirror, The Hunger Games or The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, there is no limit to satiating our desires for dark, apocalyptic visions of the future. Unfortunately the scariest experience does not involve the world of the imaginary; […]<\/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":[4,7],"tags":[141,2956,3880,17971,6994,6031],"class_list":["post-29797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-science","tag-dystopia","tag-nick-buxton","tag-roar-magazine","tag-story-telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29797","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=29797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29798,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29797\/revisions\/29798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}