{"id":66163,"date":"2023-11-16T06:33:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T11:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66163"},"modified":"2023-11-16T06:33:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T11:33:37","slug":"climate-disaster-is-here-and-the-state-will-never-save-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66163","title":{"rendered":"Climate Disaster Is Here\u2014and the State Will Never Save Us"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Climate Disaster Is Here\u2014and the State Will Never Save Us<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u201cStates demonstrate, again and again, that not only do they not protect the Earth, they facilitate its destruction.\u201d Dean Spade on the promise of speculative fiction and a review of The Ministry for the Future and The Deluge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana was once 22,000 acres of bayous. Now, less than 2% of it is still above water. In 2016, residents left because of the effects of climate change in what was labeled the “first federally recognized climate-displaced population” in the United States.PHOTO BY C\u00c9CILE CLOCHERET \/ AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Global temperatures have reached\u00a0new record highs<\/a>,\u00a0flooding<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0wildfires<\/a>\u00a0reaped widespread destruction this summer, and\u00a0rainwater was declared, for the first time, unfit for human consumption around the globe<\/a>. Amid these crises, I\u00a0delved into two novels portraying our current and developing ecological and societal crises:\u00a0The Ministry for the Future<\/em>\u00a0by Kim Stanley Robinson and\u00a0The Deluge<\/em>\u00a0by Stephen\u00a0Markley.<\/p>\n

Reading fiction about ecological crisis and societal collapse\u2009\u2014\u2009including heavily researched books like\u00a0Deluge\u00a0<\/em>(Simon\u00a0&<\/span>\u00a0Schuster,\u00a02023<\/span>)\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Ministry<\/em>\u00a0(Hachette,\u00a02020<\/span>) that aim to realistically paint future scenarios, as well as young adult stories (often with elements of magic or science fiction)\u2009\u2014\u2009can be useful for combating the persistent culture of denial of current conditions. Seeing how an author imagines emerging conditions also helps me grapple with and digest the difficult-to-comprehend onslaught of daily\u00a0news.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Even those of us who know that climate change is already killing and displacing tens of millions of people (let alone other species) annually are mostly missing the scale of the impending global collapse.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Climate Disaster Is Here\u2014and the State Will Never Save Us \u201cStates demonstrate, again and again, that not only do they not protect the Earth, they facilitate its destruction.\u201d Dean Spade on the promise of speculative fiction and a review of The Ministry for the Future and The Deluge. The Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana […]<\/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":[4,7],"tags":[140,141,13249,34008,34007,1309],"class_list":["post-66163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-emergency","tag-dean-spade","tag-in-these-times","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66163","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=66163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66164,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66163\/revisions\/66164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}