{"id":59445,"date":"2021-09-22T09:06:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59445"},"modified":"2021-09-22T09:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:06:19","slug":"todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh-xxx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59445","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXX"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Today\u2019s post has been prompted by some\u00a0thoughts<\/a>\u00a0regarding the inability of our political systems to respond in a timely manner to our plight of ecological overshoot penned by Rex Weyler, co-founder of Greenpeace, and posted by Alice Friedemann of\u00a0energyskeptic.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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I agree with virtually everything Rex argues, especially the<\/span>\u00a0role of self-interest by our political class for their apparent rejection of the notion of ecological overshoot and what needs to be done to address the negative impacts this predicament will have on our societies (we can\u2019t avoid these impacts but we might be capable of mitigating their worst outcomes somewhat). My experience with government (I spent many years involved with unions\/federations\/councils and their political action committees, including chairing some and being directly involved in negotiating contracts, thus having to deal directly with senior administrators and politicians) and readings pertaining to various sociocultural areas (e.g., economics, geopolitics, political systems, pre\/history, etc.) have solidified for me the notion that our sociopolitical institutions are for a variety of reasons the last place we should be looking to \u2018correct our course\u2019 and attempt to confront the many complex issues of our overshoot and that are beginning to become more obvious. In fact, it is likely (I believe guaranteed) that our \u2018ruling class\u2019 will continue to do the exact opposite of what is needed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXX Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Today\u2019s post has been prompted by some\u00a0thoughts\u00a0regarding the inability of our political systems to respond in a timely manner to our plight of ecological overshoot penned by Rex Weyler, co-founder of Greenpeace, and posted by Alice Friedemann of\u00a0energyskeptic.com. *\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0*\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0* I […]<\/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":[4,6,7],"tags":[150,22093,379,391,3197,17084,5833,30370],"class_list":["post-59445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-ecological-overshoot","tag-government","tag-growth","tag-overshoot","tag-power-structures","tag-steve-bull","tag-todays-contemplation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59445","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=59445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}