{"id":58958,"date":"2021-08-10T18:52:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T23:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58958"},"modified":"2021-08-10T18:52:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T23:52:48","slug":"what-is-the-root-issue-of-our-unsustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58958","title":{"rendered":"What is the Root Issue of Our Unsustainability?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is the Root Issue of Our Unsustainability?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Two pictures from Falls Mill, Tennessee, depicting life in the late 1800s. The\u00a0mill now houses a museum<\/a>\u00a0and is open for tours and a\u00a0bed and breakfast<\/a>\u00a0is also on site.<\/p>\n

Last week, I updated the files here with over 250 new articles and studies (see this list<\/a>). There were 59 new entries in the\u00a0Climate Change and Collapse<\/a>\u00a0file alone. So many of these files now contain new studies which are increasingly worrying; some of these new entries are located in the\u00a0Species and Biodiversity Loss<\/a>,\u00a0Extinction<\/a>,\u00a0Disease<\/a>,\u00a0Pollution Loading<\/a>,\u00a0Tree Decline and Deforestation<\/a>, and\u00a0Ocean Acidification and Marine Life<\/a>\u00a0files. As can be seen in these studies, this is a rapidly developing situation which is now beginning to gather speed and overwhelming existing infrastructure to deal with the ongoing disasters.<\/p>\n

There is a\u00a0new article<\/a>\u00a0regarding methane emissions through permafrost thaw which is rather chilling.\u00a0Another version in the Smithsonian Magazine<\/a>\u00a0describes the “methane time bomb” and lists a\u00a0paper from Andrew Glikson from July of 2018<\/a>. Over the past several years, there has been a growing debate over just how much of a threat methane emissions pose to the growing climate situation. Methane emissions coming from hydrates (clathrates), permafrost thaw, thermokarst lakes, and even from behind dams in the thousands of reservoirs we have built are growing, and combined with other methane sources, provide about a quarter of effects contributing to climate change. Some scientists have argued that these pose no threat and that “all we have to do is cut emissions” and nature will solve the issue. This is, of course, pure lunacy, and designed to prevent panic…<\/p>\n

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What is the Root Issue of Our Unsustainability? Two pictures from Falls Mill, Tennessee, depicting life in the late 1800s. The\u00a0mill now houses a museum\u00a0and is open for tours and a\u00a0bed and breakfast\u00a0is also on site. Last week, I updated the files here with over 250 new articles and studies (see this list). There were […]<\/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":[31189,31469,31180,769,786,7474],"class_list":["post-58958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-erik-michaels","tag-predicaments","tag-problems-predicaments-and-technology","tag-sustainability","tag-technology","tag-unsustainable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58958","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=58958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58959,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58958\/revisions\/58959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}