{"id":62493,"date":"2022-04-20T07:05:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62493"},"modified":"2022-04-20T07:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:05:21","slug":"desert-apocalypse-what-are-we-losing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62493","title":{"rendered":"Desert Apocalypse: What Are We Losing?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Desert Apocalypse: What Are We Losing?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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White Sands National Park in New Mexico, a very unique gypsum sand desert<\/p>\n

<\/a>How much thought have you given to the deserts globally? I have a special love for deserts because of the fact that they are so different from the landscape I grew up in. Many people tend to think of deserts as “sand-filled wastelands” because they don’t support the same types of plant species as wetter places. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth. There are actually quite a few species which call the desert home, more in some deserts than others. Because I live in the United States and have actually visited the deserts in the southwestern and western US, and because these lands are threatened with development for false “solutions<\/a>” which actually propel us in the wrong direction, I decided to write this article based on what we stand to lose as a result of these actions. Several groups are actively involved in attempting to halt development in these deserts, a rather positive thing indeed. More people are needed to protest these developments, as said developments don’t actually solve anything and do threaten far more than the species in the desert – they also threaten\u00a0US<\/i><\/b>\u00a0– human beings.<\/p>\n

As I pointed out a couple months ago in my\u00a0article about civilization<\/a>, so long as a particular goal is to sustain that which can not be sustained, society is doing nothing more than performing an exercise in futility. Society is simply\u00a0denying reality<\/a>\u00a0and buying into\u00a0false beliefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is extremely important for everyone to understand limits, and a\u00a0new short video from Nate Hagens<\/a>\u00a0nails it. Then there’s\u00a0this<\/a>\u00a0which explains these details in a much shorter span than most of my articles, although I don’t agree with their take that “it’s too late to do anything” in this bullet point, quote:<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Desert Apocalypse: What Are We Losing? White Sands National Park in New Mexico, a very unique gypsum sand desert How much thought have you given to the deserts globally? I have a special love for deserts because of the fact that they are so different from the landscape I grew up in. Many people tend […]<\/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],"tags":[32851,31189,12346,31180],"class_list":["post-62493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-deserts","tag-erik-michaels","tag-nate-hagens","tag-problems-predicaments-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62493","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=62493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62494,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62493\/revisions\/62494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}