{"id":34106,"date":"2018-05-09T07:52:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T12:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34106"},"modified":"2018-05-09T07:52:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T12:52:05","slug":"the-ninety-percent-and-the-tithe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34106","title":{"rendered":"The ninety percent and the tithe"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ninety percent and the tithe <\/a><\/h3>\n
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I think it likely that 90% of our working time creates what we don\u2019t need and also damages work to preserve what we do need. That is: most of our time is not only wasted but destructive. Of course, I\u2019m speaking of the so-called First World and of the mass of what it does. First World economies could be renamed Last World economies. If First World people want to be constructive \u2013 to become Possible World people, then we must shrink our GDP to just that 10%. No government can or will even attempt to achieve that. I cannot think of a single powerful politician (even in the Green Party) who would consider it. Only the household can do it. Politicians may then follow the fashion.<\/p>\n

Money-flow through wages and profits follows (or should follow) the same trajectory as energy-flow. Let\u2019s consider that 90% of energy-flow \u2013 of what people do \u2013 is powered by fossil fuels. So, then we can say that wasted time, destructive time and soul-sapping futility are also directly related to fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

Remove fossil fuels and we can easily produce what we need, while also dramatically reducing ecological and economical harm. 90% of our time will be freed to devote to new, regenerative and more appropriate cultural activity. Removing fossil fuels will prove beneficial, not only to climate change, but to the conviviality and durability of culture.<\/p>\n

Yes, cultures were often destructive before the use of fossil fuels. Even so, reliance on natural cycles will mean engaging with natural cycles, whereas those millions of years of sequestered photosynthesis lay supine for the plundering by the worst of our opportunistic human nature. Now we may find our better selves. That\u2019s the moral \u2013 we may or may not do so. We need moral conversation.<\/p>\n

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The ninety percent and the tithe I think it likely that 90% of our working time creates what we don\u2019t need and also damages work to preserve what we do need. That is: most of our time is not only wasted but destructive. Of course, I\u2019m speaking of the so-called First World and of the […]<\/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":[162,234,7042,20082,20081,328,353,17778],"class_list":["post-34106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-consumption","tag-ecology","tag-feasta","tag-first-world","tag-first-world-economy","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-gdp","tag-patrick-noble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34106","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=34106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34107,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34106\/revisions\/34107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}