{"id":58526,"date":"2021-07-08T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T15:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58526"},"modified":"2021-07-08T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T15:31:09","slug":"todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh-xxv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58526","title":{"rendered":"Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXV<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This contemplation was prompted by an\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0regarding an \u2018independent\u2019 think tank\u2019s report that presented the argument that government funding of the oil and gas industry needed to be shifted towards \u2018green\/clean\u2019 alternatives. I\u2019ve included a few hyperlinks to sites that expand upon the concepts\/issues discussed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Context, it\u2019s always important. This \u2018independent\u2019 think tank, the\u00a0International Institute for Sustainable Development<\/a>, is part and parcel of the corporate\/business \u2018greenwashing<\/a>\u2019 of our world and \u2018solutions\u2019 to its various dilemmas. It\u2019s primary mission is \u2018sustainable\u2019 development\/growth, a gargantuan oxymoron on a finite planet. Infinite growth.\u00a0Finite planet<\/a>. What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n

In<\/span>\u00a0fact, the perpetuation of this continued pursuit of perpetual growth is seen quite clearly in the absence of any discussion about curtailing our growth but rather finding ways to \u2018sustain\u2019 it, and the misuse of language (that has become endemic in the environmental movement) and the simplified \u2018solution\u2019 offered by arguing that government funds need to be directed away from the climate change-causing oil and gas industry and towards the \u2018clean\u2019 energy alternatives of \u2018renewables\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXV Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author This contemplation was prompted by an\u00a0article\u00a0regarding an \u2018independent\u2019 think tank\u2019s report that presented the argument that government funding of the oil and gas industry needed to be shifted towards \u2018green\/clean\u2019 alternatives. I\u2019ve included a few hyperlinks to sites that expand upon the concepts\/issues discussed. […]<\/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":[3,4,6,7],"tags":[150,203,14273,3197,674,5833,30370],"class_list":["post-58526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-degrowth","tag-medium","tag-overshoot","tag-renewable-energy","tag-steve-bull","tag-todays-contemplation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58526","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=58526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}