{"id":57544,"date":"2021-04-25T06:31:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T11:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57544"},"modified":"2021-04-25T06:31:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T11:31:30","slug":"overshoot-doubt-chris-clugston-kills-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57544","title":{"rendered":"Overshoot Doubt? Chris Clugston Kills\u00a0It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Overshoot Doubt? Chris Clugston Kills\u00a0It<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Thanks to Sam Hopkins for bringing my attention to the work of Chris Clugston.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m pretty well read in the overshoot space and I thought I knew all the important contributors. Somehow I missed Chris Clugston.<\/p>\n

Clugston has written two books:\u00a0Scarcity<\/a>\u00a0in 2012, and\u00a0Blip<\/a>\u00a0in 2019.<\/p>\n

His unique contribution is to research our consumption of depleting non-renewable resources. All 100+ of them, not just fossil energy.<\/p>\n

For many people, fossil energy depletion is a fuzzy threat because it\u2019s complicated and there are so many cheerleaders of false beliefs. Ditto for the climate change threat with its promoters of green growth and carbon capture machines.<\/p>\n

Clugston presents so many tangible non-negotiable threats to modern civilization that after absorbing his work there is no room for doubt and no where to hide.<\/p>\n

His conclusion is bleak. Clugston calculates modern civilization will be done by 2050, with or without climate change, with or without peak oil, and with or without any green new deal idea.<\/p>\n

Harsh yes, but real, and honest, and helpful for those still trying to make the future less bad, because his work shows that the best path is democratically supported rapid population reduction policies.<\/p>\n

Clugston\u2019s visibility on the internet is low. I don\u2019t know it that\u2019s by choice, or because of the unpleasantness of his message. I\u2019d like to see that fixed so the people working to make the future less bad can use his work as ammunition.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.readblip.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

What we do to enable our existence simultaneously undermines our existence\u2026<\/p>\n

Our enormous and ever-increasing utilization of NNRs (nonrenewable natural resources) \u2013 the finite and non-replenishing fossil fuels, metals, and nonmetallic minerals that enable our industrial existence \u2013 is causing:<\/p>\n

\u2013 Increasingly pervasive global NNR scarcity, which is causing<\/p>\n

\u2013 Faltering global human prosperity, which is causing<\/p>\n

\u2013 Increasing global political instability, economic fragility, and societal unrest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overshoot Doubt? Chris Clugston Kills\u00a0It Thanks to Sam Hopkins for bringing my attention to the work of Chris Clugston. I\u2019m pretty well read in the overshoot space and I thought I knew all the important contributors. Somehow I missed Chris Clugston. Clugston has written two books:\u00a0Scarcity\u00a0in 2012, and\u00a0Blip\u00a0in 2019. His unique contribution is to research […]<\/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":[31142,150,3197,30676],"class_list":["post-57544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-chris-clugston","tag-collapse","tag-overshoot","tag-undenial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57544","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=57544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57545,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57544\/revisions\/57545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}