{"id":60685,"date":"2021-11-27T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60685"},"modified":"2021-11-27T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T12:05:00","slug":"impending-planetary-disaster-should-unite-us-yet-we-remain-more-divided-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60685","title":{"rendered":"Impending Planetary Disaster Should Unite Us, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/11\/25\/impending-planetary-disaster-should-unite-us-yet-we-remain-more-divided-than-ever\/\">Impending Planetary Disaster Should Unite Us, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10802\" class=\"post-10802 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-armageddon tag-biosphere tag-climate tag-ecosystem tag-environment tag-humanity tag-nuclear tag-war\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-1.png?485df6&amp;485df6\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-1.png 1080w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-1-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-1-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-1-1024x536.png 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"565\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/impending-planetary-disaster-should-unite-us-yet-we-remain-more-divided-than-ever\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1166268274&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Charles Bukowski has a quote: \u201cWe\u2019re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn\u2019t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Terrorized and flattened by trivialities, eaten up by nothing. I think about this quote a lot not just as pertains to the inevitability of our individual deaths, but to the looming death of the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>The website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/\">Antiwar.com<\/a>\u00a0has been doing a good job keeping track of all the many US cold war escalations against Russia and China, which seem to be coming out on a near-daily basis now. Just right off their front page today\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2021\/11\/23\/report-us-considering-sending-military-advisors-weapons-to-ukraine\/\">there\u2019s a story<\/a>\u00a0about how the US considering is putting more military aid in Ukraine on the allegation that Russia is plotting an invasion,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2021\/11\/23\/moscow-says-us-rehearsed-nuclear-strike-against-russia-this-month\/\">another<\/a>\u00a0about Moscow claiming that US bombers just practiced a simulated nuclear strike on Russia and have have greatly increased their activity along its border,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2021\/11\/23\/china-denounces-latest-us-warship-transit-through-taiwan-strait\/\">another<\/a>\u00a0about Beijing\u2019s anger over increased US war ship activity in the Taiwan Strait,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2021\/11\/23\/australias-opposition-party-slams-government-for-hawkish-taiwan-rhetoric\/\">another<\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton\u2019s assurance that Australia would join the US in a war against China to defend Taiwan, and yet\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2021\/11\/23\/citing-us-threats-russia-and-china-agree-to-expand-military-cooperation\/\">another<\/a>\u00a0about Beijing and Moscow signing an agreement to deepen their military cooperation to counter hostilities from Washington.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1462948259823972355&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F11%2F25%2Fimpending-planetary-disaster-should-unite-us-yet-we-remain-more-divided-than-ever%2F&amp;sessionId=3c35725b6d14696ffae993a1226a02dff20cdf4a&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=f001879%3A1634581029404&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1462948259823972355\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This, along with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/its-really-weird-how-little-we-talk\">myriad symptoms<\/a>\u00a0our biosphere is showing us of impending collapse, and we still somehow manage to remain terrorized and flattened by trivialities. Eaten up by nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impending Planetary Disaster Should Unite Us, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 Charles Bukowski has a quote: \u201cWe\u2019re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn\u2019t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, [&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":[4,5],"tags":[17039,130,16632,542,14545,581,655,694,821,827,862,865],"class_list":["post-60685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-geopolitics","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-china","tag-ecological-collapse","tag-moscow","tag-narrative-control","tag-nuclear-war","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60685","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=60685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60686,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60685\/revisions\/60686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}