{"id":60247,"date":"2021-11-02T20:27:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T01:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60247"},"modified":"2021-11-02T20:27:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T01:27:53","slug":"todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh-xxxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60247","title":{"rendered":"Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXI<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, dozens of political leaders, their hundreds of staff, multitudes of corporate leaders, and who kn<\/span>ows how many \u2018celebrities\u2019 have all gathered in Glasgow, Scotland for an elite confab (#26) to discuss the \u2018Climate Crisis\u2019. Heaven knows how many resources have been extracted and pollutants dispersed in this latest political theatre (mostly? all? at taxpayer expense). The irony is not lost on many, except perhaps much of the mainstream media that tends to simply regurgitate political media releases and share simplistic narratives for exceedingly complex issues \u2014 it is indeed difficult to get someone to understand something if their income depends on them not understanding it.<\/p>\n

Needless to say I expect little of substance to result from this event. In fact, I am increasingly seeing this event as an expo for marketing of \u2018green\/clean\u2019 energy products (and making sure most? all? countries pursue purchasing them) that do not address our fundamental predicament \u2014 ecological overshoot \u2014 of which greenhouse gases is but one negative consequence (and not even the worst). And, of course, all of this provides the justification to create trillions of more dollars out of thin air (the debt held by a variety of the ruling class) that will be funnelled towards specific industries (owned by others of the ruling class) while doing little to reduce actual consumption or ecologically-destructive extraction industries.<\/p>\n

This is increasingly looking not like a problem that can be solved but a predicament that may at best be mitigated on the margins. One of the most significant dilemmas, however, appears to be the \u2018solutions\u2019 that are being bandied about also appear to be the ones that will simply make the situation worse: increasing technology and complexities in the form of \u2018renewables\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXI \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author So, dozens of political leaders, their hundreds of staff, multitudes of corporate leaders, and who knows how many \u2018celebrities\u2019 have all gathered in Glasgow, Scotland for an elite confab (#26) to discuss the \u2018Climate […]<\/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":[2,3,4,6],"tags":[141,150,32040,22093,2384,3197,674,3899,5420,5833,30370],"class_list":["post-60247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-climate-change","tag-collapse","tag-cop-26","tag-ecological-overshoot","tag-elite","tag-overshoot","tag-renewable-energy","tag-ruling-class","tag-scam","tag-steve-bull","tag-todays-contemplation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60247","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=60247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60248,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60247\/revisions\/60248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}