{"id":51173,"date":"2020-02-15T08:11:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T13:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51173"},"modified":"2020-02-15T08:11:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T13:11:16","slug":"why-covid-19-demands-our-full-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51173","title":{"rendered":"Why Covid-19 Demands Our Full Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/why-covid-19-demands-our-full-attention\/\">Why Covid-19 Demands Our Full Attention<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This is an unprecedented moment for our hyper-connected planet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a reason we\u2019ve re-directed so much of our attention towards reporting on and trying to understand the novel coronavirus (covid-19) that originated in Wuhan, China in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The heart of our approach is to be \u201csystems thinkers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cLearn how to see.&nbsp; Realize that everything connects to everything else\u201d<\/p><p>~ Leonardo Davinci<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We don\u2019t see the economy as a closed ecosystem to be analyzed and understood all on its own.&nbsp; It\u2019s connected to energy flows, especially oil.&nbsp; So we investigate those, too, with an eye towards working out how fossil fuels\u2019 eventual dwindling will impact an economic system that is utterly dependent on perpetual growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without a healthy planet, without intact and functioning ecological systems, nothing matters in either the economy or the energy markets.&nbsp; Both impact the ecological world And vice versa.&nbsp; So we analyze and report on the environment, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which is why we\u2019re confident in claiming that humanity is now facing its greatest threat.&nbsp; Our current path of depleting our essential resources at an accelerating rate in the pursuit of \u201cmore growth\u201d is both unsustainable and self-destructive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So here we are, with a global economy that\u2019s very cost-efficient but not resilient.&nbsp; It\u2019s wonderful that Walmart has worked out how to order a new tube of toothpaste from China the second one is pulled off a shelf in Topeka, KS. But that means there is no deep storage to draw upon in times of disruption to the status quo.&nbsp; No warehouses stocked with 12 months of future goods.&nbsp; Just a brilliantly-complicated supply chain thousands of miles long that has to work perfectly for things to keep running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Covid-19 Demands Our Full Attention This is an unprecedented moment for our hyper-connected planet There\u2019s a reason we\u2019ve re-directed so much of our attention towards reporting on and trying to understand the novel coronavirus (covid-19) that originated in Wuhan, China in December. The heart of our approach is to be \u201csystems thinkers.\u201d \u201cLearn how [&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":[2,4],"tags":[130,153,28817,29011,19255,16400,2218],"class_list":["post-51173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-china","tag-complex-systems","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-global-pandemic","tag-global-supply-chains","tag-peak-prosperity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51173","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=51173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51174,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51173\/revisions\/51174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}