{"id":58956,"date":"2021-08-10T08:32:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T13:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58956"},"modified":"2021-08-10T08:32:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T13:32:13","slug":"todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh-xxviii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58956","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<h3 id=\"a59e\" class=\"fl dl fm bb da fn fo fp fq fr fs ft fu fv fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevebull-4168.medium.com\/todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh-xxviii-5c530de56b9e\">Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVIII<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"hd he et eu paragraph-image\">\n<div class=\"et eu hc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"w hf hg\" role=\"presentation\" src=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/1170\/1*GOgkbp8b9Hhl6g0W8U1jpw.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"399\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"hh hi ev et eu hj hk bb b bc bd bz\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"4070\" class=\"hl hm fm hn b ho hp hq hr hs ht hu hv hw hx hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii dn gi\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Today\u2019s very brief \u2018contemplation\u2019 is a comment I penned on an\u00a0<a class=\"dt ij\" href=\"https:\/\/fastlovestudios.com\/the-century-of-the-limits\/#comment-6\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">article<\/a>\u00a0that discusses the limits to growth we have probably surpassed, Kuber-Ross\u2019s stages of grief (especially denial and bargaining) that the world seems to be experiencing in the wake of increasing awareness of our existential dilemmas\/predicaments, and a call for cooperation amongst the world\u2019s people to address our plight.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ea01\" class=\"hl hm fm hn b ho hp hq hr hs ht hu hv hw hx hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii dn gi\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">I have repeatedly experienced the denial<span id=\"rmm\">\u00a0<\/span>and anger that tends to arise when one challenges another\u2019s personal beliefs. I should know better than to present countervailing evidence\/narratives, especially given the defensive psychological mechanisms that arise to preserve such beliefs. We tend to look for confirmation of our strongly-held views by surrounding ourselves with like-minded voices, not disruptive narratives that can lead to cognitive dissonance. Such stories are denigrated and attacked (as the author of the article points out for the Limits to Growth authors).<\/p>\n<p id=\"3310\" class=\"hl hm fm hn b ho hp hq hr hs ht hu hv hw hx hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii dn gi\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">I do believe, however, that the acceptance of our limits in many aspects leads to a conclusion that degrowth needs to be not only considered and discussed, but widely pursued if humanity is to have any hope of at least some of us transitioning through the self-made bottleneck that is directly ahead of us. Pursing the \u2018wrong\u2019 path will only make our predicament far, far more challenging and greatly reduce any opportunities for at least some of humanity to survive.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVIII Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Today\u2019s very brief \u2018contemplation\u2019 is a comment I penned on an\u00a0article\u00a0that discusses the limits to growth we have probably surpassed, Kuber-Ross\u2019s stages of grief (especially denial and bargaining) that the world seems to be experiencing in the wake of increasing awareness of our existential [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,4,7,1],"tags":[12372,1330,31385,31469,674,5833,30370],"class_list":["post-58956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","category-uncategorized","tag-bargaining","tag-denial","tag-kubler-ross","tag-predicaments","tag-renewable-energy","tag-steve-bull","tag-todays-contemplation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58956","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=58956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58957,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58956\/revisions\/58957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}