{"id":45159,"date":"2019-04-08T08:56:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T13:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45159"},"modified":"2019-04-08T08:56:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T13:56:19","slug":"what-will-you-say-to-your-grandchildren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45159","title":{"rendered":"What Will You Say to Your Grandchildren?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What Will You Say to Your Grandchildren?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facing oncoming climate disaster, some argue for \u201cDeep Adaptation\u201d\u2014that we must prepare for inevitable collapse. However, this orientation is dangerously flawed. It threatens to become a self-fulfilling prophecy by diluting the efforts toward positive change. What we really need right now is Deep Transformation. There is still time to act: we must acknowledge this moral imperative.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every now and then, history has a way of forcing ordinary people to face up to a moral encounter with destiny that they never expected. Back in the 1930s, as Adolf Hitler rose to power, those who turned away when they saw Jews getting beaten in the streets never expected that decades later, their grandchildren would turn toward them with repugnance and say \u201cWhy did you do nothing when there was still a chance to stop the horror?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, nearly a century on, here we are again. The fate of future generations is at stake, and each of us needs to be prepared, one day, to face posterity\u2014in whatever form that might take\u2014and answer the question: \u201cWhat did you do when you knew our future was on the line?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unless you\u2019ve been hiding under a rock the past few months, or get your daily updates exclusively from Fox News, you\u2019ll know that our world is facing a dire climate emergency that\u2019s rapidly reeling out of control. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has\u00a0issued a warning<\/a>\u00a0to humanity that we have just twelve years to turn things around before we pass the point of no return. Governments continue to waffle and ignore the blaring sirens. The pledges they\u2019ve made under the 2015 Paris agreement will lead to 3 degrees of warming, which would\u00a0threaten the foundations<\/a>\u00a0of our civilization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What Will You Say to Your Grandchildren? Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Facing oncoming climate disaster, some argue for \u201cDeep Adaptation\u201d\u2014that we must prepare for inevitable collapse. However, this orientation is dangerously flawed. It threatens to become a self-fulfilling prophecy by diluting the efforts toward positive change. What we really need right now is Deep […]<\/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":[141,12818,13249,5493,5161,440,16819,11348],"class_list":["post-45159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-disaster","tag-climate-emergency","tag-counterpunch","tag-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change","tag-ipcc","tag-jeremy-lent","tag-paris-climate-agreement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45159","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=45159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45161,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45159\/revisions\/45161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}