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Bargaining to Maintain Civilization<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Happy Winter\/Summer Solstice!!<\/strong>As anyone reading my articles often already knows,\u00a0ecological overshoot<\/a>\u00a0is the master predicament causing many different\u00a0symptom predicaments<\/a>. I constantly see many people blaming\u00a0emissions<\/a>\u00a0or greed or capitalism or governments or oil companies or fossil fuels (and on and on…) for causing climate change (or their favorite symptom predicament).\u00a0Playing the blame game gets us nowhere though<\/a>, and\u00a0unfortunately, it is also far more complicated than that. Reducing emissions is a great idea (NOT a solution as noted below in the new paper from James Hansen), but it cannot be accomplished without reducing ecological overshoot because ecological overshoot is precisely what is CAUSING emissions.\u00a0Ecological overshoot is caused by technology use<\/a>, which means that it is being caused by\u00a0our behavior<\/i><\/b>. In order to reduce emissions, there is no other choice than to reduce technology use. This requires changing our behaviors. Most emissions historically have been produced by Western Society, so Western Society must change the most in how we behave.\u00a0This is not optional.\u00a0<\/i>If we don’t change our behavior, nature will solve the predicament for us by removing habitat that we require in order to continue surviving.\u00a0This is the outcome for that scenario – extinction.<\/a>\u00a0Of course, inherent here is that infamous “we<\/i><\/b>” which brings the good ole’\u00a0lack of agency<\/a>\u00a0into the mix.<\/p>\n

Now, this is the background to what I am writing about. While my articles here have just been recently introduced to society at large, I’ve actually been conversing about this and writing about it far longer in several different groups, many of which I’m no longer a member of. Why am I no longer a member in these groups one may ask. Because those groups feature and promote\u00a0a mental defect known as wetiko<\/a>, and they\u00a0refuse to accept the truth<\/a> that ecological overshoot and its symptom predicaments are not problems with solutions…<\/p>\n

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Bargaining to Maintain Civilization Happy Winter\/Summer Solstice!!As anyone reading my articles often already knows,\u00a0ecological overshoot\u00a0is the master predicament causing many different\u00a0symptom predicaments. I constantly see many people blaming\u00a0emissions\u00a0or greed or capitalism or governments or oil companies or fossil fuels (and on and on…) for causing climate change (or their favorite symptom predicament).\u00a0Playing the blame game […]<\/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":[3,4,7],"tags":[12372,138,139,22093,31189,31180,786],"class_list":["post-64570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-bargaining","tag-civilisation","tag-civilization","tag-ecological-overshoot","tag-erik-michaels","tag-problems-predicaments-and-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64570","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=64570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64571,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64570\/revisions\/64571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}