{"id":55751,"date":"2020-11-25T08:51:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T13:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55751"},"modified":"2020-11-25T08:51:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T13:51:33","slug":"turning-the-clock-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55751","title":{"rendered":"Turning the clock forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smallfarmfuture.org.uk\/2020\/11\/turning-the-clock-forward\/\">Turning the clock forward<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The next stop in my tour through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smallfarmfuture.org.uk\/my-book\/\">my book<\/a>\u00a0<em>A Small Farm Future<\/em>\u00a0is Part I, which begins with a long chapter outlining ten crises that one way or another seem set in the coming years to thoroughly upend the world we\u2019ve known.<\/p>\n<p>As I see it, these crises are such that for good or ill a small farm future awaits many of us or our descendants. So after Chapter 1, the rest of the book is basically about how people might try to accentuate the good and mitigate the ills of this likely future \u2013 a difficult journey, with no guaranteed endpoint.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not going to reprise what I say in Chapter 1 here on the blog, much of which in any case will be familiar to readers here. But in this and the next few posts I\u2019d like to extend and further explain my thinking around some key points from this chapter, and also cast forward to Chapter 2 where I try to put the implications of our present crises into a wider political context.<\/p>\n<p>I was a bit horrified to discover that a couple of readers assumed I\u2019d placed the ten crises (starting with \u2018Population\u2019 and ending with \u2018Culture\u2019) in order of importance. The truth is that the ordering is somewhat random, based on ease of exposition, but generally trends from immediate or \u2018proximal\u2019 issues like climate change towards what I see as the deeper underlying ones in our politics, economics and culture. More importantly, I see all these crises as complexly interlinked, and scarcely amenable to simple, one-shot, technical solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Still, we live in a world that\u2019s complexly interlinked through the medium of cheap and abundant energy. Therefore it\u2019s unsurprising, if ironic, that mainstream discussion of our present crises often emphasizes simplistic (albeit technically complex), one-shot solutions, primarily in relation to energy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning the clock forward The next stop in my tour through\u00a0my book\u00a0A Small Farm Future\u00a0is Part I, which begins with a long chapter outlining ten crises that one way or another seem set in the coming years to thoroughly upend the world we\u2019ve known. As I see it, these crises are such that for good [&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":[15683,9738],"class_list":["post-55751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-chris-smaje","tag-small-farm-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55751","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=55751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55752,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55751\/revisions\/55752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}