{"id":63133,"date":"2022-07-24T13:51:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T18:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63133"},"modified":"2022-07-24T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T18:51:13","slug":"what-does-an-ecological-civilization-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63133","title":{"rendered":"What Does An Ecological Civilization Look\u00a0Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"banAreaTopBlock\">\n<div class=\"max-1366 d-flex justify-content-between align-items-center\">\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"no-lazyload wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.yesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/YES-ecological-civilation-spread.jpg?fit=1400%2C841&amp;quality=90&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.yesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/YES-ecological-civilation-spread.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=90&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.yesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/YES-ecological-civilation-spread.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;quality=90&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.yesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/YES-ecological-civilation-spread.jpg?resize=1024%2C615&amp;quality=45&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.yesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/YES-ecological-civilation-spread.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;quality=90&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.yesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/YES-ecological-civilation-spread.jpg?resize=673%2C404&amp;quality=90&amp;ssl=1 673w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.yesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/YES-ecological-civilation-spread.jpg?resize=442%2C266&amp;quality=90&amp;ssl=1 442w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.yesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/YES-ecological-civilation-spread.jpg?resize=200%2C120&amp;quality=90&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.yesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/YES-ecological-civilation-spread.jpg?resize=865%2C519&amp;quality=90&amp;ssl=1 865w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.yesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/YES-ecological-civilation-spread.jpg?resize=250%2C150&amp;quality=90&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.yesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/YES-ecological-civilation-spread.jpg?resize=24%2C14&amp;quality=90&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.yesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/YES-ecological-civilation-spread.jpg?resize=36%2C22&amp;quality=90&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.yesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/YES-ecological-civilation-spread.jpg?resize=48%2C29&amp;quality=90&amp;ssl=1 48w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.yesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/YES-ecological-civilation-spread.jpg?resize=600%2C360&amp;quality=90&amp;ssl=1 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"841\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"bannAreaFull sIpBanner\">\n<div class=\"featured-image-caption\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"featured-image-photographer\">ILLUSTRATIONS BY DELPHINE LEE\/YES! MAGAZINE<\/div>\n<p><button class=\"caption-toggle\"><\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"slogan\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/issue\/ecological-civilization\/2021\/02\/16\/what-does-ecological-civilization-look-like\">What Does An Ecological Civilization Look\u00a0Like?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia\u2014yet communities everywhere are already creating it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"article-section\" class=\"p-v-40 relative\">\n<div class=\"scrollmagic-pin-spacer\" data-scrollmagic-pin-spacer=\"\">\n<nav id=\"toc-sidenav\" class=\"accordionArea desktopAccordian changeOnAjaxAccor\">\n<div class=\"imgContainer sIpBanner relative noBg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" ls-is-cached lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/97-cover-splash-wpcf_864x560.jpg\" alt=\"Ecological Civilization\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/97-cover-splash-wpcf_864x560.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"max-800 p-h-15 firstPost\">\n<hr class=\"horitonzal-line magazine\" \/>\n<div class=\"magazinArticle\">\n<p>As a new, saner administration sets up shop in Washington, D.C., there are plenty of policy initiatives this country desperately needs. Beyond a national plan for the COVID-19 pandemic, progressives will strive to focus the administration\u2019s attention on challenges like fixing the broken health care system, grappling with systemic racial inequities, and a just transition from fossil fuels to renewables.<\/p>\n<p>These are all critically important issues. But here\u2019s the rub: Even if the Democratic administration were resoundingly successful on all fronts, its initiatives would still be utterly insufficient to resolve the existential threat of climate breakdown and the devastation of our planet\u2019s life-support systems. That\u2019s because the multiple problems confronting us right now are symptoms of an even more profound problem: The underlying structure of a global economic and political system that is driving civilization toward a precipice.<\/p>\n<p>Take a moment to peer beyond the day-to-day crises capturing our attention, and you quickly realize that the magnitude of the looming catastrophe makes our current political struggles, by comparison, look like arguing how to stack deck chairs on the Titanic.<\/p>\n<p>The climate emergency we\u2019re facing is far worse than most people realize. While it was clearly an essential step for the United States to rejoin the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, the collective pledges on greenhouse gas emissions from that agreement are woefully insufficient. They would lead to a dangerous temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius this century\u2014and many nations are failing to make even these targets. We are rapidly approaching\u2014if we haven\u2019t already passed\u2014climate tipping points with reinforcing feedback loops that would lead to an unrecognizable and terrifying world.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ILLUSTRATIONS BY DELPHINE LEE\/YES! MAGAZINE What Does An Ecological Civilization Look\u00a0Like? A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia\u2014yet communities everywhere are already creating it. As a new, saner administration sets up shop in Washington, D.C., there are plenty of policy initiatives this country desperately needs. 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