{"id":59013,"date":"2021-08-14T11:03:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T16:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59013"},"modified":"2021-08-14T11:03:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T16:03:06","slug":"more-cognitive-dissonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59013","title":{"rendered":"More Cognitive Dissonance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More Cognitive Dissonance<\/a><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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In my\u00a0last post<\/a>, I expressed my concerns regarding methane emissions along with the growing speed which our collective predicaments appear to be gaining. Then I explained precisely why we have thus far not made any real progress on these predicaments based upon our\u00a0collective denial<\/i><\/b>, which has a considerable amount to do with our basic human psychology. In conclusion, the reality is that very few people are actually paying an ounce of\u00a0real\u00a0<\/b><\/i>attention. What they\u00a0are<\/i><\/b>\u00a0paying attention to are\u00a0all the distractions<\/a>\u00a0– the hype, advertising, marketing, and propaganda.<\/p>\n

Today I bring more evidence of the increasing speed of these predicaments as I recall some of my articles which I had privately hoped might be a long way off into the future. I’m not one to try to evade uncomforting news. If I was, I most certainly wouldn’t be reading and watching these articles, reports, studies, videos, and other media to try to understand and comprehend fully where we are and where we’re headed. I focus on the trajectory and while I do read the hopium “success” stories about how great we are and all of the stupendous progress we’ve made, the trajectory does not show this – it shows instead our collective denial.<\/p>\n

Attempting to bring sanity to what is essentially insane can be difficult, for sure. I wrote\u00a0this article about hydrogen sulfide<\/a>\u00a0four months ago with the thought that the likelihood of ever seeing these effects in my lifetime were remote. Then, last week I saw\u00a0this article which describes the scenario<\/a>, quote:<\/p>\n

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“We are passing a tipping point,” said Goes. “The food chain has been turned upside down.”<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The changes are trouble for the people of the Middle East, eastern Africa, and southern Asia…<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More Cognitive Dissonance In my\u00a0last post, I expressed my concerns regarding methane emissions along with the growing speed which our collective predicaments appear to be gaining. Then I explained precisely why we have thus far not made any real progress on these predicaments based upon our\u00a0collective denial, which has a considerable amount to do with […]<\/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":[2675,31189,31180],"class_list":["post-59013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-cognitive-dissonance","tag-erik-michaels","tag-problems-predicaments-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59013","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=59013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59014,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59013\/revisions\/59014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}