{"id":57988,"date":"2021-05-22T07:41:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T12:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57988"},"modified":"2021-05-22T07:41:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T12:41:28","slug":"todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh-xv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57988","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XV"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XV<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Rome, Italy (1984) Photo by author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Energy. It\u2019s at the core of everything we do. Everything. Yet we take it for granted and rarely think about it and what the finiteness of our various energy sources means for us.<\/p>\n

As Gail Tverberg of\u00a0Our Finite World<\/a>\u00a0concludes in a recent\u00a0thought-provoking article<\/a>\u00a0that should be read widely: \u201cNeedless to say, the powers that be do not want the general population to hear about issues of these kinds. We find ourselves with narrower and narrower news reports that provide only the version of the truth that politicians and news media want us to read.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inst<\/span>ead of having a complex and very necessary discussion about the unsustainable path we are on (especially as it pertains to chasing the perpetual growth chalice) and attempting to mitigate the consequences of our choices, we are told all is well, that \u2018science\u2019, \u2018human ingenuity\u2019, and \u2018technology\u2019 will save the day, and we can maintain business-as-usual with just some minor \u2018tweaks\u2019 and\/or a \u2018green\/clean\u2019 energy transition. Pre\/history, physics, and biology would suggest otherwise.<\/p>\n

Here is my relatively long comment on a\u00a0Tyee article<\/a>\u00a0discussing the International Energy Agency\u2019s recent report that calls on all future fossil fuel projects to be abandoned and drastic reductions in demand in order to avoid irreparable climate change damage to our planet. The answer, however, will not be found in \u2018renewable\u2019 energy and related technologies as many contend because the underlying and fundamental issue of overshoot has been conveniently left out of the story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Having followed the \u2018energy\u2019 dilemma for more than a decade I\u2019ve come to better understand the complexities, nuances, and scheming that it entails; not all mind you, not by a long shot, but certainly better than the mainstream narratives provide…<\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XV Rome, Italy (1984) Photo by author Energy. It\u2019s at the core of everything we do. Everything. Yet we take it for granted and rarely think about it and what the finiteness of our various energy sources means for us. As Gail Tverberg of\u00a0Our Finite World\u00a0concludes in a recent\u00a0thought-provoking article\u00a0that should […]<\/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":[3,6],"tags":[150,203,1233,391,416,433,14545,1101,674,5833,5499],"class_list":["post-57988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-liberty","tag-collapse","tag-degrowth","tag-gail-tverberg","tag-growth","tag-iea","tag-international-energy-agency","tag-narrative-control","tag-olduvai","tag-renewable-energy","tag-steve-bull","tag-the-tyee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57988","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=57988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57989,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57988\/revisions\/57989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}