{"id":63381,"date":"2022-08-26T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T13:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63381"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:48:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T13:48:46","slug":"riding-the-zeitgeist-a-theory-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63381","title":{"rendered":"Riding the Zeitgeist: A theory of\u00a0change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Riding the Zeitgeist: A theory of\u00a0change<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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\u2018What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist<\/em>\u2018 George Bernard Shaw<\/p>\n

The word \u2018zeitgeist\u2019, originating with philosopher Hegel, is the descriptor for the spirit of a time. In 2019, a zeitgeist coalesced around the urgent need for climate action, and climate change became an acceptable and predominant point of conversation. There were many influencing factors \u2013 Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion, international convention upon international convention, science upon science \u2013 but no singular reason for why, in 2019, just about everyone started talking climate. Unconsciously and sub-consciously, this zeitgeist had taken shape through liminal osmosis.<\/p>\n

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This same zeitgeist now propels big business and governments into \u2018climate action\u2019. With support from large sections of the climate-environment movement, techno-fixes that boost GDP and aim to maintain business as usual, are being rolled out under the guise of a \u2018renewables\u2019 transition. This \u2018spirit of our times\u2019 is a fraught fusion of progress and climate action, failing to recognise that one is the cause for the other.<\/p>\n

Zeitgeists, by nature, are ethereal, multifarious, and ill-disciplined creatures, not easily tamed, nor dominated. The current \u2018climate action\u2019 zeitgeist, and its fractured nature, is not\u00a0a fait accompli<\/em>, but a malleable phenomenon prone to influence and change. As \u2018progress\u2019 cannot be sustained and \u2018green hyper-growth<\/a>\u2019 will only destroy the Earth faster than business as usual, the spirt of our times is amenable to shifting \u2013 to becoming one less fanciful, and more closely matching reality.<\/p>\n

Current zeitgeists now defining the beginning of the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century are in hot contention, not least because the era of progress has ended, and the\u00a0#GreatDescent<\/a>, well and truly begun…<\/p>\n

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Riding the Zeitgeist: A theory of\u00a0change \u2018What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist\u2018 George Bernard Shaw The word \u2018zeitgeist\u2019, originating with philosopher Hegel, […]<\/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":[7],"tags":[150,33121,33122,20861],"class_list":["post-63381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-just-collapse","tag-theory-of-change","tag-zeitgeist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63381","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=63381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63382,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63381\/revisions\/63382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}