{"id":58584,"date":"2021-07-13T07:17:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T12:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58584"},"modified":"2021-07-13T07:17:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T12:17:57","slug":"the-future-is-not-a-spectator-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58584","title":{"rendered":"The Future Is Not a Spectator Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Future Is Not a Spectator Sport<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
Like all self-organized, adaptive systems, society moves in nonlinear ways. Even as our civilization unravels, a new ecological worldview is spreading globally. Will it become powerful enough to avert a cataclysm? None of us knows. Perhaps the Great Transition to an ecological civilization is already under way, but we can\u2019t see it because we\u2019re in the middle of it. We are all co-creating the future as part of the interconnected web of collective choices each of us makes: what to ignore, what to notice, and what to do about it<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpted from\u00a0The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(<\/em>published\u00a0<\/em>in June in the UK<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0and available July 13 in the US<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

The nonlinearity of history<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are many good reasons to watch the unfolding catastrophe of our civilization\u2019s accelerating drive to the precipice and believe it\u2019s already too late. The unremitting increase in carbon emissions, the ceaseless devastation of the living Earth, the hypocrisy and corruption of our political leaders, and our corporate-owned media\u2019s strategy of ignoring the topics that matter most to humanity\u2019s future\u2014all these factors come together like a seemingly unstoppable juggernaut driving our society toward breaking point. As a result, an increasing number of people are beginning to reconcile themselves to a terminal diagnosis for civilization. In the assessment of sustainability leader Jem Bendell, founder of the growing Deep Adaptation movement, we should wake up to the reality that \u201cwe face inevitable near-term societal collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our civilization certainly appears to be undergoing profound transition. But it remains uncertain what that transition will look like, and even more obscure what new societal paradigm will re-emerge once the smoke clears. A cataclysmic collapse leaving the few survivors in a grim dark age?…<\/p>\n

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The Future Is Not a Spectator Sport Like all self-organized, adaptive systems, society moves in nonlinear ways. Even as our civilization unravels, a new ecological worldview is spreading globally. Will it become powerful enough to avert a cataclysm? None of us knows. Perhaps the Great Transition to an ecological civilization is already under way, but […]<\/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":[150,4282,25563,341,27581,15993,10693,6665,31440],"class_list":["post-58584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-dark-age","tag-deep-adaptation","tag-future","tag-jem-bendell","tag-nonlinear-systems","tag-prediction","tag-resilience-org","tag-societal-collapsejeremy-lent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58584","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=58584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58585,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58584\/revisions\/58585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}