{"id":44702,"date":"2019-03-23T09:59:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T14:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44702"},"modified":"2019-03-23T10:07:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T15:07:31","slug":"barry-lopez-on-hope-capitalism-and-environmental-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44702","title":{"rendered":"Barry Lopez on Hope, Capitalism and Environmental Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Culture\/2019\/03\/22\/Lopez-Hope-Capitalism-Environmental-Disaster\/\">Barry Lopez on Hope, Capitalism and Environmental Disaster<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018The only thing you can\u2019t do in public is to destroy people\u2019s sense of hope.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Culture\/2019\/03\/21\/BarryLopez.jpg\" alt=\"BarryLopez.jpg\"\/><figcaption>\u2018People have a need to put food on the table and make their car payments and you can\u2019t be angry about that. And if you are, they can\u2019t comprehend your rage. Still, there is a catastrophe right in front of us that\u2019s about to explode.\u2019&nbsp;Photo from Steven Barclay Agency.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>The Tyee: In Orion magazine, Rebecca Solnit once quoted the poet and bioregionalist Gary Snyder who said, \u201cThe most radical thing you can do is stay home.\u201d She wrote that \u201cin the bioregional 1970s, going back to the land and consuming less was how the task was framed&#8230; The task has only become more urgent as climate change in particular underscores that we need to consume a lot less&#8230; We are going to have to stay home a lot more in the future.\u201d Is she right? Was Gary Snyder right?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Barry Lopez:<\/strong>&nbsp;They are both right in a sense. It\u2019s important to maintain an international awareness of global problems like methane gas releases and climate change. It\u2019s hard as an American now that we\u2019ve pulled out of the Paris accords not to be embarrassed abroad. But it\u2019s important to get outside the bounds of your own nation state, to see what people are experiencing, and to report on what they are doing about it. If you are not in the Arctic, you simply cannot understand the staggering change that we are experiencing through climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Lopez on Hope, Capitalism and Environmental Disaster \u2018The only thing you can\u2019t do in public is to destroy people\u2019s sense of hope.\u2019 &nbsp;The Tyee: In Orion magazine, Rebecca Solnit once quoted the poet and bioregionalist Gary Snyder who said, \u201cThe most radical thing you can do is stay home.\u201d She wrote that \u201cin the [&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":[4,7],"tags":[24783,111,3316,2057,24782],"class_list":["post-44702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-barry-lopez","tag-capitalism","tag-disaster","tag-hope","tag-ian-gill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44702","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=44702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44705,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44702\/revisions\/44705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}