{"id":5169,"date":"2015-02-02T21:05:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T02:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2015-02-02T21:05:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T02:05:52","slug":"the-age-of-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5169","title":{"rendered":"The Age of Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/carbonpilgrim.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/01\/the-age-of-consequences\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Age of\u00a0Consequences<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>I have a new book out from Counterpoint Press! It is titled\u00a0<em>The Age of Consequences: a Chronicle of Concern and Hope<\/em>\u00a0and it includes an Introduction by Wendell Berry. Here is a brief description, followed by a selection from the Prologue. For a review (and to order) see:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/978-1-61902-454-0\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/978-1-61902-454-0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a book about questions and answers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We live in what sustainability pioneer Wes Jackson calls \u201cthe most important moment in human history,\u201d meaning we live at a decisive moment of\u00a0<em>action<\/em>. The various challenges confronting us are like a bright warning light shining in the dashboard of a speeding vehicle called<em>Civilization<\/em>, accompanied by an insistent and annoying buzzing sound, requiring immediate attention. I call this moment the Age of Consequences \u2013 a time when the worrying consequences of our hard partying over the past sixty years have begun to bite hard, raising difficult and anguished questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you explain to your children, for example, what we\u2019ve done to the planet \u2013\u00a0<em>to their planet<\/em>? How do you explain to them not only our actions but our inaction as well? It\u2019s not enough simply to say that adults behave in complex, confusing, and often contradictory ways because children today can see the warning light in\u00a0<em>Civilization\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0dashboard for themselves. When they point, what do we say?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Age of\u00a0Consequences I have a new book out from Counterpoint Press! It is titled\u00a0The Age of Consequences: a Chronicle of Concern and Hope\u00a0and it includes an Introduction by Wendell Berry. Here is a brief description, followed by a selection from the Prologue. For a review (and to order) see: http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/978-1-61902-454-0 This is a book [&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":[7],"tags":[3134,139,150,766],"class_list":["post-5169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-age-of-consequences","tag-civilization","tag-collapse","tag-survival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169","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=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5170,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}