{"id":44301,"date":"2019-03-08T08:38:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44301"},"modified":"2019-03-08T08:38:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:38:18","slug":"how-united-nations-scientists-are-preparing-for-the-end-of-capitalism%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44301","title":{"rendered":"How United Nations scientists are preparing for the end of capitalism\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2019\/how-united-nations-scientists-are-preparing-for-the-end-of-capitalism\/\">How United Nations scientists are preparing for the end of capitalism<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/energyskeptic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/End-of-capitalism.jpg?resize=499%2C266\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10372\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: arabisouri, The Inevitable End of Capitalism, steemkr.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Preface.<\/strong>&nbsp;The article below was written by Nafeez Ahmed, who wrote one of my favorite books&nbsp; \u201c<em>Failing States, Collapsing Systems: BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahmed writes: \u201cMost observers have no idea of the current biophysical realities&nbsp;\u2013 that the driving force of the transition to post-capitalism is the end of the age that made endless growth capitalism possible in the first place: the age of abundant, cheap energy. We have moved into a new, unpredictable and unprecedented space in which the conventional economic toolbox has no answers.&nbsp; Capitalist markets will not be capable of facilitating the required changes \u2013 governments will need to step up, and institutions will need to actively shape markets to fit the goals of human survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I seriously doubt that governments have any plans now, because I just finished the book Raven Rock.&nbsp; If the U.S. government abandoned plans to build bomb shelters for the 160 million in cities to survive in for two weeks (and then the radiation would supposedly be low enough to emerge), they certainly aren\u2019t preparing for the Permanent Emergency of the energy crisis.&nbsp; But governments may be forced to step up the the plate at some level of social disorder, and the best possible action they could take is rationing, which really ought to be thought out ahead of time. Oh well..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The solutions proposed in this article may slow down the Great Simplification a little \u2014 such as the promotion of walking and biking, self-sufficient food production and fewer imports, more public transport, and electrification of transport (though natural gas and coal are also finite).\u00a0 <\/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>How United Nations scientists are preparing for the end of capitalism Source: arabisouri, The Inevitable End of Capitalism, steemkr.com Preface.&nbsp;The article below was written by Nafeez Ahmed, who wrote one of my favorite books&nbsp; \u201cFailing States, Collapsing Systems: BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence\u201c. Ahmed writes: \u201cMost observers have no idea of the current biophysical realities&nbsp;\u2013 [&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":[2,3,7],"tags":[24098,11859,2092,826],"class_list":["post-44301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-alice-friedmann","tag-energy-skeptic","tag-nafeez-ahmed","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44301","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=44301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44302,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44301\/revisions\/44302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}