{"id":58871,"date":"2021-08-02T09:57:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58871"},"modified":"2021-08-02T09:57:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:57:47","slug":"this-ship-is-sinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58871","title":{"rendered":"This ship is sinking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This ship is sinking<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Is there time to rearrange the deck chairs as in the Paris Agreement, or should we just start passing out lifejackets? Many people still hope we\u2019ll make a manageable transition to a low-impact economy. I\u2019ve pretty much lost hope for that outcome, primarily because two factors now must be included in a realistic forecast\u2014currently discernible collective human will, and already-appearing climate impacts.<\/p>\n
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  1. Currently discernible collective human will<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Oil companies have known of the link between their products and climate change\u00a0since 1965<\/a>. The news media was told about it when James Hansen testified before Congress\u00a0in 1988<\/a>. By 2000 environmentalists were beginning to educate the public and elected officials, testing terminology to find words that would capture attention and motivate action. \u201cShould we say \u2018global warming\u2019 or \u2018climate change?\u2018 \u2018Greenhouse gases\u2019 or \u2018climate pollution?\u2019\u201d For at least two decades there has been steady and often brilliant effort by scientists, climate activists, and energy experts to show both the perils we face and the possible solutions.<\/p>\n

    We know the results. Major emitters have clung to fossil fuels and used their clout to obfuscate the issue rather than change direction. Emissions are rebounding post-pandemic, and 2023 is predicted to see the highest levels of CO2<\/sub>\u00a0emissions<\/a>\u00a0in human history. At this point it is probably a fact that the desire not to exceed 1.5o<\/sup>C is just a wish and not a fully inhabited intention for most of those who have the power to make it happen.<\/p>\n

    I\u2019ve been surprised by the inertia, but I shouldn\u2019t have been. The climate crisis may be seen as the logical result of cumulative actions that go back thousands of years. The agricultural revolution seems to have encouraged top-down social and economic systems, and perhaps the subjugation of nature and of humans lower in the hierarchy encouraged the development in the human population of what I will call insensitivity…<\/p>\n

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

    This ship is sinking Is there time to rearrange the deck chairs as in the Paris Agreement, or should we just start passing out lifejackets? Many people still hope we\u2019ll make a manageable transition to a low-impact economy. I\u2019ve pretty much lost hope for that outcome, primarily because two factors now must be included in […]<\/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],"tags":[31574,113,141,13249,328,6665],"class_list":["post-58871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-alice-loyd","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-emergency","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-resilience-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58871","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=58871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58872,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58871\/revisions\/58872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}