{"id":58151,"date":"2021-06-05T06:50:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T11:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58151"},"modified":"2021-06-05T06:50:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T11:50:30","slug":"todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh-xviii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58151","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVIII"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVIII<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As per usual, my comment on an\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0in The Tyee that gives an interesting perspective on the idea of \u2018Carbon Footprint\u2019 and individual verses collective actions in addressing the behavioural\/consumption changes necessary for effective action on climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Great read and perspective.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is that climate change is as much a political problem as it is a scientific one. It\u2019s not that we\u2019ve been failing to make individual lifestyle changes; it\u2019s that powerful interests have knowingly obscured, distracted from and delayed climate action over the last 50 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

I find this<\/span>\u00a0key to help in understanding one of the narratives that have come to dominate the \u2018environmental\/climate change\/global warming\u2019 movement: a transition to \u2018renewables\u2019 (or \u2018green\/clean\u2019 energy) and \u2018electrifying\u2019 everything is the best path forward; and many of The Tyee writers are as guilty of this as well.<\/p>\n

As has been shown by Jeff Gibbs\u2019 Planet of the Humans and Julia Barnes\u2019 Bright Green Lies, the \u2018environmental\u2019 movement appears to have been hijacked by powerful\/influential political\/economic interests in order to market the idea that getting everyone to shift away from fossil fuel-based industry and products is the key action in fighting climate change and avoiding the predicted consequences of it.<\/p>\n

This idea is, I believe, primarily a marketing\/sloganeering\/narrative control campaign to help the businesses\/corporations\/industries involved in \u2018renewables\u2019 and associated products in expanding their consumer base and shifting capital towards them. It is not and never has been about protecting or saving the environment and ecological systems. It is about protecting and saving our energy-intensive, business-as-usual complexities and the technologies necessary to support\/maintain these; and it is driven by the primary motivation of the ruling class\/powers-that-be\/elite: expansion\/control of the wealth-generating systems that provide their revenue streams.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVIII Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author As per usual, my comment on an\u00a0article\u00a0in The Tyee that gives an interesting perspective on the idea of \u2018Carbon Footprint\u2019 and individual verses collective actions in addressing the behavioural\/consumption changes necessary for effective action on climate change. *\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0*\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0* Great read […]<\/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":[2,3,4,6],"tags":[3818,1406,14545,1101,15442,5833,5499,30370],"class_list":["post-58151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-carbon-footprint","tag-green-energy","tag-narrative-control","tag-olduvai","tag-renewables","tag-steve-bull","tag-the-tyee","tag-todays-contemplation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58151","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=58151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58152,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58151\/revisions\/58152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}