{"id":41644,"date":"2018-12-14T07:10:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T12:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41644"},"modified":"2018-12-14T07:10:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T12:10:38","slug":"climate-change-and-the-limits-of-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41644","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change and the Limits of Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/12\/14\/climate-change-and-the-limits-of-reason\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Climate Change and the Limits of Reason<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<blockquote><p>Modern urban-industrial man is given to the raping of anything and everything natural on which he can fasten his talons.\u00a0 He rapes the sea; he rapes the soil; the natural resources of the earth.\u00a0 He rapes the atmosphere.\u00a0 He rapes the future of his own civilization. \u00a0Instead of living off of nature\u2019s surplus, which he ought to do, he lives off its substance. He would not need to do this were he less numerous, and were he content to live a more simple life.\u00a0 But he is prepared neither to reduce his numbers nor to lead a simpler and more healthful life.\u00a0 So he goes on destroying his own environment, like a vast horde of locusts.\u00a0 And he must be expected, persisting blindly as he does in this depraved process,to put an end to his own existence within the next century.\u00a0 The years 2000 to 2050 should witness, in fact, the end of the great Western civilization.\u00a0 The Chinese, more prudent and less spoiled, no less given to over-population but prepared to be more ruthless in the control of its effects, may inherent the ruins.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 George Kennan, diary entry, March 21, 1977<\/p>\n<p>But as I grow older I realize how limited a part reason plays in the conduct of men.\u00a0 They believe what they want to\u2014and although liable to shipwreck they generally get off with a hole in the bottom of their boat and stick an old coat into that.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (to Harold Laski), December 26, 1917<\/p>\n<p>We all see what\u2019s happening, we read it in the headlines every day, but seeing isn\u2019t believing and believing isn\u2019t accepting.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Roy Scranton, <em>We\u2019re Doomed. Now What?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Change and the Limits of Reason Modern urban-industrial man is given to the raping of anything and everything natural on which he can fasten his talons.\u00a0 He rapes the sea; he rapes the soil; the natural resources of the earth.\u00a0 He rapes the atmosphere.\u00a0 He rapes the future of his own civilization. \u00a0Instead of [&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":[4],"tags":[139,22217,141,5493,23492,23493],"class_list":["post-41644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-civilization","tag-climate-catastrophe","tag-climate-change","tag-counterpunch","tag-michael-duggin","tag-reason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41644","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=41644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41645,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41644\/revisions\/41645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}