{"id":43563,"date":"2019-02-06T09:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43563"},"modified":"2019-02-06T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:16:08","slug":"what-will-it-feel-like-to-be-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43563","title":{"rendered":"What will it feel like to be left behind?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dinosaur-bones.jpg?resize=600%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animasoul.org\/2019\/02\/05\/what-will-it-feel-like-to-be-left-behind\/#more-1921\">What will it feel like to be left behind?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris Martenson\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2019-01-31\/collapse-is-already-here\">recent article<\/a>&nbsp;about collapse and the plummeting of biodiversity made me think about what it feels like to be left behind.&nbsp; Few people living in affluent countries or communities understand what this means.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans closed their eyes to the plight of people in underdeveloped countries whose soil, water, and air were exploited by US corporations seeking profits at the expense of people.&nbsp; Instead we touted our booming economic growth as American exceptionalism.&nbsp; We deserved a better lifestyle because we earned it, right?&nbsp; But today as billionaires are capturing more and more of the world\u2019s wealth and most of the rest are being left behind, we no longer think the situation is fair.&nbsp; We don\u2019t enjoy it when we are the ones left behind. \u201cThe 12% increase in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/jan\/21\/world-26-richest-people-own-as-much-as-poorest-50-per-cent-oxfam-report\">wealth<\/a>&nbsp;of the very richest contrasted with a fall of 11% in the wealth of the poorest half of the world\u2019s population.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human exploitation of the environment is competing for the resources other species of life need to survive.\u00a0 Climate change and the use of pesticides toxic to most species is causing a severe decline in species of insects, amphibians, birds, butterflies, bats, etc.\u00a0 It is also causing a decline in human health.\u00a0 Species are going extinct at rates unprecedented except by catastrophic natural events such as a meteorite impact.\u00a0 Our decision to protect or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mahb.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Mace-2014-Science.pdf\">conserve nature has evolved<\/a>\u00a0from ideas in the 1960\u2019s that we should protect \u201cnature for nature itself\u201d to the idea in the 1990\u2019s that we should preserve \u201cnature for people\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Economic policy dictated that the needs of people mattered first and foremost.\u00a0 It is only more recently that people are slowly realizing the importance of natural ecosystems, and that it is \u201chumans and nature\u201d we need to understand and protect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will it feel like to be left behind? 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