{"id":53212,"date":"2020-05-12T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53212"},"modified":"2020-05-12T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T18:01:10","slug":"small-deaths-and-the-real-death-how-humans-are-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53212","title":{"rendered":"Small deaths and the real death: how humans are failing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cassandralegacy.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/small-deaths-and-real-death-how-humans.html\">Small deaths and the real death: how humans are failing<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bxYAL0Ju5GI\/XqhRxKUVl3I\/AAAAAAAAEnk\/a3tCjBRIfvANA2kp7r-v3zfmpLooWICiACLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/20171209_FND000_0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bxYAL0Ju5GI\/XqhRxKUVl3I\/AAAAAAAAEnk\/a3tCjBRIfvANA2kp7r-v3zfmpLooWICiACLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/20171209_FND000_0.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Guest post by Federico Tabellini<\/strong><\/em><br><em>This article was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ugobardi.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/morte-ecologica-e-indifferenza-umana.html\">originally published<\/a>\u00a0last year on the Italian blog \u2018Effetto Cassandra\u2019. I repropose it here because I think the coronavirus crisis has made it somehow more relevant. The current situation raises new questions: is this new crisis just another \u2018small death\u2019 on a much wider scale? Or is it an opportunity to highlight the global ecological crisis we\u2019ve been ignoring for decades? If it\u2019s the latter, will the lights turn off once the emergency is over? Will the world return once more to blissful ignorance?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seneca used to say that death, real death, is a process of small deaths lived day by day. Yet people deal with the real death only when its effects come to a head when the proverbial last straw breaks the camel\u2019s back, and the camel falls upon us with all its weight. Then, yes, we notice both the straw and the camel. Until then, however \u2013 or perhaps we should say, until now \u2013 the small deaths dominate our thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The difference between these small deaths and true death lies in three factors: spatial proximity, temporal proximity, and speed of execution. What&#8217;s near worries us more than what&#8217;s far, the present issues are more important than the future ones, the event more than the process. Such is human nature. We are biologically programmed to pay more attention to current events, the forthcoming ordeal, the tragedy that we can experience first-hand. We mourn the tree burning in the garden while the forest on the horizon is slowly eaten up by parasites.<\/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>Small deaths and the real death: how humans are failing Guest post by Federico TabelliniThis article was\u00a0originally published\u00a0last year on the Italian blog \u2018Effetto Cassandra\u2019. I repropose it here because I think the coronavirus crisis has made it somehow more relevant. The current situation raises new questions: is this new crisis just another \u2018small death\u2019 [&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":[10777,9248,29712],"class_list":["post-53212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-cassandras-legacy","tag-death","tag-federico-tabellini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53212","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=53212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53213,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53212\/revisions\/53213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}