{"id":55522,"date":"2020-11-04T08:02:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T13:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55522"},"modified":"2020-11-04T08:02:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T13:02:03","slug":"toward-an-age-of-low-tech-for-a-more-resilient-and-sustainable-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55522","title":{"rendered":"Toward an age of low tech for a more resilient and sustainable society"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"featured-image\" class=\"zero-type\">\n<div id=\"h1-container\" class=\"w1of1 group flex zero-type has-image\">\n<h3 class=\"w2of3 block bt bl b16 black\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transformingsociety.co.uk\/2020\/10\/21\/toward-an-age-of-low-tech-for-a-more-resilient-and-sustainable-society\/\">Toward an age of low tech for a more resilient and sustainable society<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"single-content\" class=\"w1of1 group post-14049 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-global-social-challenges tag-climate-change tag-covid-19 tag-inequalities tag-innovation tag-low-tech tag-technology subjects-science-technology-and-society themes-technology-data-and-society themes-covid-19 authors-philippe-bihouix\">\n<article class=\"w2of3 block fl\"><strong>The various restrictions that have been imposed to tackle the COVID-19 crisis have led many of us to reflect on what might be our response to other pressing issues that we face, especially inequalities in our societies and the major ecological issues of climate change, biodiversity collapse and resource depletion. What has the crisis told us about the state of our planet and societies, and are there wider lessons that can be learned from our response?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even before the pandemic, we had begun to talk in public debate in ways that would have been unimaginable ten years ago: about the climate crisis and resilience to ecological disruption, questioning the dogma of growth at all costs. The pandemic has reinforced concerns about globalisation and challenged beliefs about the role of the state and the possibility of printing money in a real emergency, while showing that we could do very well without certain things, such as shopping trips to Dubai or cruise ships. Many of us have learned to value nature more, to seek conviviality and escape from the incessant pressures of modern life, while seeking to build societies that are more resilient to disturbances.<\/p>\n<p>The crisis has further also exposed our societal inequalities in the contrasts between those who were confined in pleasant conditions and others in less fortunate circumstances, between those who could work from home and those who had to stay in their workplaces in order to keep healthcare, food supplies and other essential services operating, and between those who kept getting paid no matter what and those whose earnings dried up.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toward an age of low tech for a more resilient and sustainable society The various restrictions that have been imposed to tackle the COVID-19 crisis have led many of us to reflect on what might be our response to other pressing issues that we face, especially inequalities in our societies and the major ecological issues [&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":[3,7],"tags":[141,4651,3527,680,681,2527,30543],"class_list":["post-55522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-climate-change","tag-globalisation","tag-low-tech","tag-resilience","tag-resources","tag-sustainable","tag-transforming-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55522","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=55522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55523,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55522\/revisions\/55523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}