{"id":39101,"date":"2018-10-13T08:44:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T13:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39101"},"modified":"2018-10-13T08:44:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T13:44:05","slug":"we-need-an-ecological-civilization-before-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39101","title":{"rendered":"We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It\u2019s Too\u00a0Late"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It\u2019s Too\u00a0Late<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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In the face of climate breakdown and ecological overshoot, alluring promises of \u201cgreen growth\u201d are no more than magical thinking. We need to restructure the fundamentals of our global cultural\/economic system to cultivate an \u201cecological civilization\u201d: one that prioritizes the health of living systems over short-term wealth production.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve now been warned by the world\u2019s leading climate scientists that we have just twelve years to limit climate catastrophe. The UN\u2019s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has put the world on notice<\/a> that going from a 1.5\u00b0 to 2.0\u00b0 C rise in temperature above preindustrial levels would have disastrous consequences across the board, with unprecedented flooding, drought, ocean devastation, and famine.<\/p>\n

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A global crisis of famine and mass starvation looms unless we can turn around the trajectory of our civilization<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, the world\u2019s current policies have us on track<\/a> for more than 3\u00b0 increase by the end of this century, and climate scientists publish dire warnings that amplifying feedbacks could make things far worse<\/a> than even these projections, and thus place at risk<\/a> the very continuation of our civilization. We need, according to the IPCC<\/a>, \u201crapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.\u201d But what exactly does that mean?<\/p>\n

Last month, at the Global Climate Action Summit<\/a> (GCAS) in San Francisco, luminaries such as Governor Jerry Brown, Michael Bloomberg, and Al Gore gave their version of what\u2019s needed with an ambitious report<\/a> entitled \u201cUnlocking the Inclusive Growth Story of the 21st Century by the New Climate Economy.\u201d It trumpets a New Growth Agenda<\/a>: through enlightened strategic initiatives, they claim, it\u2019s possible to transition to a low-carbon economy that could generate millions more jobs, raise trillions of dollars for green investment, and lead to higher global GDP growth.<\/p>\n

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We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It\u2019s Too\u00a0Late In the face of climate breakdown and ecological overshoot, alluring promises of \u201cgreen growth\u201d are no more than magical thinking. We need to restructure the fundamentals of our global cultural\/economic system to cultivate an \u201cecological civilization\u201d: one that prioritizes the health of living systems over short-term wealth […]<\/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":[2,3,4,7],"tags":[22217,141,2956,22288,22093,369,5161,440,16819,13248,822,826,22289],"class_list":["post-39101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-climate-catastrophe","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-science","tag-ecological-civilzation","tag-ecological-overshoot","tag-global-warming","tag-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change","tag-ipcc","tag-jeremy-lent","tag-patterns-of-meaning","tag-un","tag-united-nations","tag-wealth-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39101","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=39101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39102,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39101\/revisions\/39102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}