{"id":36702,"date":"2018-08-16T06:42:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T11:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36702"},"modified":"2018-08-16T06:42:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T11:42:12","slug":"a-last-ditch-strategy-to-fight-for-human-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36702","title":{"rendered":"A Last Ditch Strategy to Fight for Human Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Last Ditch Strategy to Fight for Human Survival<\/a><\/h3>\n
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There is almost unanimous agreement among climate scientists and organizations \u2013 that is, 97% of over 10,000 climate scientists and the various scientific organizations engaged in climate science research \u2013 that human beings have caused a dramatic increase in the amount of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide released into Earth\u2019s atmosphere since the pre-industrial era and that this is driving the climate catastrophe that continues to unfold. For the documentary evidence on this point see, for example,\u2018Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature\u2019<\/a>, \u2018Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming\u2019<\/a>and \u2018Scientists Agree: Global Warming is Happening and Humans are the Primary Cause\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, there is no consensus regarding the timeframe in which this climate catastrophe will cause human extinction. This lack of consensus is primarily due to the global elite controlling the public perception of this timeframe with frequent talk of \u2018the end of the century\u2019 designed to allow ongoing profit maximization through \u2018business as usual\u2019 for as long as possible. Why has this happened?<\/p>\n

When evidence of the climate catastrophe (including the pivotal role of burning fossil fuels) became incontrovertible, which meant that the fossil fuel industry\u2019s long-standing efforts to prevent action on the climate catastrophe had finally ended, the industry shifted its focus to arguing that the timeframe, which it presented as \u2018end of the century\u2019, meant that we could defer action (and thus profit-maximization through business as usual could continue indefinitely). Consequently, like the tobacco, sugar and junk food industries, the fossil fuel industry has employed a range of tactics to deflect attention from their primary responsibility for a problem and to delay action on it.<\/p>\n

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A Last Ditch Strategy to Fight for Human Survival There is almost unanimous agreement among climate scientists and organizations \u2013 that is, 97% of over 10,000 climate scientists and the various scientific organizations engaged in climate science research \u2013 that human beings have caused a dramatic increase in the amount of carbon dioxide, methane and […]<\/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],"tags":[18010,3193,141,2956,5493,369,5316,21253,18944],"class_list":["post-36702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-anthropogenic-global-warming","tag-carbon-dioxide","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-science","tag-counterpunch","tag-global-warming","tag-methane","tag-nitrous-oxide","tag-robert-j-burrowes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36702","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=36702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36703,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36702\/revisions\/36703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}