{"id":58847,"date":"2021-07-31T08:14:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T13:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58847"},"modified":"2021-07-31T08:14:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T13:14:06","slug":"problems-predicaments-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58847","title":{"rendered":"Problems, Predicaments, and Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We often see people bring out certain ideas that they claim are some sort of \u201csolution\u201d or that \u201cthey<\/span>\u00a0work\u201d and I want to try to explain why (once again) these ideas are nothing more than ideas and not \u201csolutions\u201d of any sort. One of the things I most would like to get others to see is the bigger picture. Many people focus on reductionist ideas such as non-renewable \u201crenewable\u201d energy, or alternative energy ideas such as hydrogen, or technological ideas; but fail to see how those ideas don\u2019t really change anything and only allow for continued environmental destruction (and consolidate capital in the hands of the elite) instead.<\/p>\n

Before I go any further, I should make it clear that climate change (and most of the topics in our files) is a predicament. A\u00a0predicament<\/a>\u00a0has an outcome, not a solution or answer. Solutions and answers are reserved for PROBLEMS. Many people get these two mixed up and tend to see predicaments as problems. Wikipedia calls a predicament a \u201cwicked problem<\/a>\u201d but this doesn\u2019t change the simple fact that predicaments or dilemmas do not have solutions.<\/p>\n

One of the first things I constantly harp about is technology. Technology has been great for those of us who can afford to use it, but it came at a huge cost to the environment AND to us over the long haul. It is our use of technology which CONTINUES the exponential expansion of the predicaments we face and it is our insistence upon not only using existing technology but on developing NEW technology to \u201csolve\u201d the predicaments technology caused to begin with that is itself one of the biggest parts of our predicaments.<\/p>\n

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Problems, Predicaments, and Technology We often see people bring out certain ideas that they claim are some sort of \u201csolution\u201d or that \u201cthey\u00a0work\u201d and I want to try to explain why (once again) these ideas are nothing more than ideas and not \u201csolutions\u201d of any sort. One of the things I most would like to […]<\/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":[3,7],"tags":[141,22093,31189,14273,31568,15034,31180,8265,786],"class_list":["post-58847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-climate-change","tag-ecological-overshoot","tag-erik-michaels","tag-medium","tag-predicament","tag-problem","tag-problems-predicaments-and-technology","tag-solution","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58847","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=58847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58848,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58847\/revisions\/58848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}