{"id":43148,"date":"2019-01-25T07:28:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T12:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43148"},"modified":"2019-01-25T07:29:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T12:29:20","slug":"end-times-dead-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43148","title":{"rendered":"End Times, Dead Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/01\/25\/end-times-dead-ahead\/\">End Times, Dead Ahead<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is time we consider the implications of it being too late to avert a global environmental catastrophe in the lifetimes of people alive today.\u201d (Jem Bendell)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, the world is coming to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course it is\u2026 but when?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Jem Bendell\u2019s brilliant seminal work, \u201cDeep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy\u201d d\/d July 27th 2018, claims the time is now, within a decade, not sometime in the distant future. Not only that, he suggests embracing this transcendental experience that\u2019s colloquially known as \u201cEnd Times.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along those lines, a powerful intimately conceived film by ScientistsWarningTV.org produced by Stuart Scott captures Bendell\u2019s inner thoughts about \u201cwhat\u2019s important\u201d in the face of near extinction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6vwbanH9pgY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bendell\u2019s 15-minute video monologue should be viewed in the context of the current status of the world\u2019s climate crisis, which is a mindboggling steroid-enhanced-CO2-laced trip to nowhere but trouble, and it\u2019s smack dab on target (actually ahead of target) for a grim, bleak world that alters all life and contorts the socio-economic compact, meaning sudden death for the \u201cneoliberal brand\u201d of capitalism, which will not survive once the world comes to accept and recognize its inherent villainy, notably its massive extensive disruption of the earth system of life, or Gaia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even worse yet, total annihilation of almost all life is a probability, a scenario that a small minority of scientists embrace. Those scientists believe that an extinction event is baked-in-the-cake, inevitable, inescapable within current lifetimes because of excessive human-caused greenhouse gases such as CO2, which, in turn, disrupts James Lovelock\u2019s Gaia hypothesis, meaning the biosphere has a self-regulatory effect on Earth that sustains life. Destroy one ecosystem and all others will fail in time and most of Earth becomes uninhabitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End Times, Dead Ahead \u201cIt is time we consider the implications of it being too late to avert a global environmental catastrophe in the lifetimes of people alive today.\u201d (Jem Bendell) In other words, the world is coming to an end. Of course it is\u2026 but when? 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