{"id":63674,"date":"2022-10-04T05:56:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T10:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63674"},"modified":"2022-10-04T05:56:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T10:56:47","slug":"top-scientists-we-face-a-ghastly-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63674","title":{"rendered":"Top Scientists: We Face \u201cA Ghastly Future\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Top Scientists: We Face \u201cA Ghastly Future\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Editor\u2019s note: According to the scientists who wrote the following paper, \u201cfuture environmental conditions will be far more dangerous than currently believed. The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeforms\u2014including humanity\u2014is in fact so great that it is difficult to grasp for even well-informed experts.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

We agree, and have been working to both inform people about these issues and to resist the destruction of the planet since our organization formed over a decade ago. \u201cAny else [other than telling the truth about our ecological crisis] is misleading at best,\u201d the scientists write, \u201cor negligent and potentially lethal for the human enterprise [and, we must add, much of life on this planet] at worst.\u201d
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Modern civilization is a\u00a0society of the spectacle<\/a>\u00a0in which media corporations focus more on\u00a0<\/i>who won the football game or how the queen is buried than about the breakdown of planetary ecology. This scientific report is essential reading and should be a headline news story worldwide. However, this information is inherently subversive, and therefore is either ignored or\u00a0framed in such a way as to support the goals of the wealthy<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

For years, our co-founder Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, \u201cDo you think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of life?\u201d No one ever says yes. This is why Deep Green Resistance exists.
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Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can\u2019t fix it, and shopping\u2014no matter how green\u2014won\u2019t stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy.\u00a0<\/em>Deep Green Resistance is a\u00a0plan of action<\/a>\u00a0for anyone determined to fight for this planet\u2014and win.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that future environmental conditions will be far more dangerous than currently believed. The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeforms\u2014including humanity\u2014is in fact so great that it is difficult to grasp for even well-informed experts. Second, we ask what political or economic system, or leadership, is prepared to handle the predicted disasters, or even capable of such action. Third, this dire situation places an extraordinary responsibility on scientists to speak out candidly and accurately when engaging with government, business, and the public. We especially draw attention to the lack of appreciation of the enormous challenges to creating a sustainable future. The added stresses to human health, wealth, and well-being will perversely diminish our political capacity to mitigate the erosion of ecosystem services on which society depends. The science underlying these issues is strong, but awareness is weak. Without fully appreciating and broadcasting the scale of the problems and the enormity of the solutions required, society will fail to achieve even modest sustainability goals.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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