{"id":61437,"date":"2022-01-12T10:08:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61437"},"modified":"2022-01-12T10:08:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:08:03","slug":"its-okay-to-look-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61437","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s okay to look up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am told I should look into filing a copyright claim against the Netflix movie\u00a0Don\u2019t Look Up<\/a><\/em>, since I wrote a version of it in my 2015 book,\u00a0The Consciousness of Sheep<\/a><\/em>, and for exactly the same reason:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve all seen this movie before: A giant asteroid is heading straight for us, and it looks like a big one. Although somewhat smaller than the rock that wiped out the dinosaurs \u2013 together with 90 percent of life on Earth \u2013 this one could well destroy human civilisation. If it hits a landmass, it will spew pollution into the upper atmosphere. This will initially produce a global \u2018nuclear winter\u2019 in which temperatures plummet and plant life withers as sunlight is blocked out. Those of us that survive the impact will face starvation as harvests fail. In the longer-term we face runaway global warming as the gases trapped in the upper atmosphere act like a blanket to prevent heat radiating into space. Even if the asteroid hits an ocean, things may not be much better. Super-size tsunami waves will sweep around the planet wiping out 70-90 percent of the World\u2019s cities and causing massive damage to infrastructure. The water vapour that erupts into the sky is three times more powerful a greenhouse gas than the carbon dioxide that humanity routinely pumps into the atmosphere. This, too, threatens runaway global warming\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat would we humans do if this was for real?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision to act now should be obvious except for two compounding factors. First, governments in the modern world tend not to trust the people. So they have been trying to keep the lid on the whole thing while telling the population to carry on with business as usual…<\/em><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s okay to look up I am told I should look into filing a copyright claim against the Netflix movie\u00a0Don\u2019t Look Up, since I wrote a version of it in my 2015 book,\u00a0The Consciousness of Sheep, and for exactly the same reason: \u201cWe\u2019ve all seen this movie before: A giant asteroid is heading straight for […]<\/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":[32375,379,705,30640,31360],"class_list":["post-61437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-dont-look-up","tag-government","tag-science","tag-the-consciousness-of-sheep","tag-tim-watkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61437","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=61437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61438,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61437\/revisions\/61438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}