{"id":41851,"date":"2018-12-20T08:47:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T13:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41851"},"modified":"2018-12-20T08:47:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T13:47:56","slug":"the-flight-from-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41851","title":{"rendered":"The Flight from Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosophia.net\/the-flight-from-nature\/\">The Flight from Nature<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>A couple of weeks ago one of my readers pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/society\/environment\/its-time-for-climate-change-defeatists-to-get-out-of-the-way\/\">an op-ed piece on climate change<\/a> by Canadian journalist David Moscrop, titled \u201cIt\u2019s time for climate change defeatists to get out of the way.\u201d If you\u2019ve watched the slow-motion train wreck of climate change activism for more than a year or two, you already know Moscrop\u2019s song well enough to sing it in the shower, but I think the attitudes enshrined (or, better, embalmed) in this piece and its many equivalents are worth another look. \u00a0There\u2019s something moving down below the surface of the rhetoric; follow where it leads, and you come close to one of the deep roots of our present predicament.<\/p>\n<p>Moscrop\u2019s essay contains all the usual ingredients, and all the usual omissions, of a good standard tub-thumping climate change diatribe. He starts out sounding like a Puritan preacher\u2014sinners in the hands of an angry Gaia!\u2014but shifts almost at once to talking about feelings: his feelings, of course, and those of the people who agree with him. They\u2019re anxious, he tells us. They\u2019re grieving. They\u2019re depressed. They\u2019re despondent. And of course it\u2019s all the fault of those horrible people over there, those \u201ccowards or selfish monsters or wretched social liabilities willfully closed off to the reality of imminent doom,\u201d who are deliberately keeping climate change activists from saving the world.<\/p>\n<p>Then, of course, comes the call to arms\u2014to \u201cignore, marginalize, and defeat\u201d those horrible people over there. \u201cThat means protests,\u201d he tells us. \u201cThat means lawsuits. That means trying to convince deniers or holdouts with our reasons. That means shouting them down at town halls if giving reasons fails.\u201d It means, to be precise, exactly those things that climate change activists have been doing over and over again for the last twenty years, with a noticeable lack of success.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flight from Nature A couple of weeks ago one of my readers pointed me to an op-ed piece on climate change by Canadian journalist David Moscrop, titled \u201cIt\u2019s time for climate change defeatists to get out of the way.\u201d If you\u2019ve watched the slow-motion train wreck of climate change activism for more than a [&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":[14,141,23557,15417,1758],"class_list":["post-41851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-activism","tag-climate-change","tag-david-moscrop","tag-ecosophia","tag-john-michael-greer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41851","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=41851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41852,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41851\/revisions\/41852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}