{"id":59204,"date":"2021-09-03T08:03:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T13:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59204"},"modified":"2021-09-03T08:03:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T13:03:11","slug":"a-prayer-for-nonbelievers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59204","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Nonbelievers"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosophia.net\/a-prayer-for-nonbelievers\/\">A Prayer for Nonbelievers<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>I was ten years old when\u00a0<em>The Limits to Growth\u00a0<\/em>first saw print.\u00a0 I have a dim memory of seeing a\u00a0 newspaper article or two about it, but I had other things on my mind in 1972\u2014my parents got divorced that year, and an already difficult childhood promptly got much worse\u2014and several years passed before I found time to read it.\u00a0 Its portrayal of a future of hard limits made immediate sense to me.\u00a0 Somehow I never managed to absorb the widespread American conviction that there will always be more so long as you whine for it loudly enough, and so the book became one of the volumes that shaped my youthful sense of where the future was headed.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s you could talk about such things. The public library in Burien, Washington where I got most of my reading fodder then was well stocked with books on energy and the environment. If I couldn\u2019t find what I wanted there I could catch the Route 130 bus to the downtown branch of the Seattle Public Library, not yet replaced by the monument to architectural incompetence that now squats on its site, and bring home a double armload of volumes on similar topics. By that time, too, I had read enough to follow the logic of\u00a0<em>The Limits to Growth<\/em>\u00a0in detail.<\/p>\n<p>It was not, as the corporate media insisted it was, a prophecy of doom.\u00a0 That\u2019s one of the details that got swept under the rug by the mainstream back in the 1970s and still gets swept under the rug by the project\u2019s critics today.\u00a0 The point of\u00a0<em>The Limits to Growth\u00a0<\/em>was that we as a species, and as a community of nations, had a choice&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Prayer for Nonbelievers I was ten years old when\u00a0The Limits to Growth\u00a0first saw print.\u00a0 I have a dim memory of seeing a\u00a0 newspaper article or two about it, but I had other things on my mind in 1972\u2014my parents got divorced that year, and an already difficult childhood promptly got much worse\u2014and several years [&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],"tags":[5995,150,215,15417,1758,485],"class_list":["post-59204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-choice","tag-collapse","tag-doom","tag-ecosophia","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-limits-to-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59204","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=59204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59205,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59204\/revisions\/59205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}