{"id":60960,"date":"2021-12-15T06:08:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T11:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60960"},"modified":"2021-12-15T06:08:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T11:08:16","slug":"what-is-post-doom-another-end-of-the-world-is-possible-climatecrisis-ecocide-overshoot-auspol-energy-consumption-population-listen-to-the-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60960","title":{"rendered":"What is Post-Doom? \u2013 Another End of the World is Possible #ClimateCrisis #Ecocide #Overshoot #auspol #Energy #Consumption #Population Listen to the\u00a0scientists."},"content":{"rendered":"
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What is Post-Doom? \u2013 Another End of the World is Possible #ClimateCrisis #Ecocide #Overshoot #auspol #Energy #Consumption #Population Listen to the scientists.<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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\u201cPost-doom has a gorgeous sunrise.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014 Connie Barlow<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Why I am not a \u201cDoomer\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

After several years of mobilizing with 350.org and other environmental groups, I came to realize that the whole movement had been addressing a surface level problem\u2013where<\/em>\u00a0we get our energy from\u2013instead of the underlying problem\u2013how much<\/em>\u00a0energy we are using. In other words, the movement was focused on fossil fuels when it should be focusing on capitalism and the growth economy. There are several reasons for this misplaced focus, which include psychology and marketing (it\u2019s easier to imagine a transition to fossil fuels than powering down our economy), as well as complicity (there\u2019s a lot of money invested in renewables).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I also realized that it was very unlikely that our society would ever voluntarily power down, and so a collapse\u2013economic, social, and environmental\u2013is probably unavoidable. Following Jem Bendell, author of the now (in)famous\u00a0\u201cDeep Adaptation paper\u201d<\/a>, I anticipate \u201cinevitable collapse, probable catastrophe, and possible extinction\u201d. It\u2019s impossible to say how long it will take, but I would guess that it will take generations. I would guess that it will be a prolonged and staggered collapse, a series of mini-collapses followed by partial recoveries. I believe that this collapse has already begun, that it has been going on for a while, and that climate change is only one aspect of it.[FN1]<\/p>\n

Now, this realization might lead a person to throw up their hands and say \u201cF@#k it!\u201d And, in fact, there is a whole community of people called \u201cDoomers\u201d who seem to revel in the thought of collapse and make a pastime of nihilism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What is Post-Doom? \u2013 Another End of the World is Possible #ClimateCrisis #Ecocide #Overshoot #auspol #Energy #Consumption #Population Listen to the scientists. \u201cPost-doom has a gorgeous sunrise.\u201d \u2014 Connie Barlow Why I am not a \u201cDoomer\u201d After several years of mobilizing with 350.org and other environmental groups, I came to realize that the whole movement […]<\/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":[141,215,32306,32307],"class_list":["post-60960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-climate-change","tag-doom","tag-john-pratt","tag-post-doom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60960","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=60960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60961,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60960\/revisions\/60961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}