{"id":51363,"date":"2020-02-25T08:22:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T13:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51363"},"modified":"2020-02-25T08:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T13:22:42","slug":"diana-beresford-kroeger-on-the-flawed-thinking-that-got-us-to-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51363","title":{"rendered":"Diana Beresford-Kroeger on the Flawed Thinking that Got Us to Climate Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2020\/02\/25\/Botanist-Diana-Beresford-Kroeger-On-Climate-Change\/\">Diana Beresford-Kroeger on the Flawed Thinking that Got Us to Climate Crisis<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Our conversation with the renowned botanist turns to fire, money and manual work.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2020\/02\/24\/Diana-portrait-middle-range.jpg\" alt=\"Diana-Beresford-Kroeger\"\/><figcaption>\u2018Climate change is not just a question of science. It is question of society, too. Maybe the society question is a bigger one than the science.\u2019&nbsp;Photo for The Tyee by Colin Rowe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In early November, a California radio station in Marin County invited the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diana_Beresford-Kroeger\">world-renowned<\/a>&nbsp;botanist to participate in a podcast about her new book&nbsp;<em>To Speak for the Trees<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book, already in its fourth printing, has much to say about climate change and the healing role of forests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the climate crisis rudely intervened as wildfires once again scorched their way across the populous state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just before the scheduled interview, she got an emergency call from the station, recalls Beresford-Kroeger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey said, \u2018Sorry we can\u2019t do the interview today because the studio is on fire. We\u2019re getting out of here fast.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At first she thought it was a joke. \u201cThey were telling me as matter of fact as though their studio goes on fire everyday. But this is the new reality.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So she wished them well. \u201cYou know that that the crisis is happening to them and you realize yours might be the next shot.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And there\u2019s the problem. Climate change has now appeared at everyone\u2019s doorstop in different guises; rising seas, longer king tides, melting ice caps, brutal fires, dying trees, failed crops, migrating peoples, rising food prices, monstrous storms, drying aquifers and absent politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beresford-Kroeger has been thinking about climate change for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She first thought about the issue in the 1960s while chatting with her bookish Uncle Pat about her fear of going hungry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two didn\u2019t have much money, and Beresford-Kroeger already knew what it meant to go to bed with an empty stomach.\u00a0<\/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>Diana Beresford-Kroeger on the Flawed Thinking that Got Us to Climate Crisis Our conversation with the renowned botanist turns to fire, money and manual work. In early November, a California radio station in Marin County invited the&nbsp;world-renowned&nbsp;botanist to participate in a podcast about her new book&nbsp;To Speak for the Trees. The book, already in its [&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],"tags":[5549,141,22785,23884],"class_list":["post-51363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-andrew-nikiforuk","tag-climate-change","tag-diana-beresford-kroeger","tag-thetyee-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51363","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=51363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51364,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51363\/revisions\/51364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}