{"id":66253,"date":"2023-11-30T12:20:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66253"},"modified":"2023-11-30T12:20:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:20:30","slug":"why-do-todays-realities-escape-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66253","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Today’s Realities Escape Society?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Do Today’s Realities Escape Society?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Philpott Lake, Virginia, as seen from the Visitor Center of Philpott Dam<\/div>\n
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First of all, many people\u00a0do<\/i><\/b>\u00a0clearly see what is happening. However, society as a whole still has many blind spots. The news continues to worsen regularly as\u00a0this article<\/a>\u00a0points out, and\u00a0more studies pointing out tree decline<\/a>\u00a0and deforestation like\u00a0I have written about before<\/a>\u00a0are constantly coming out. That article is about the forests in the UK and\u00a0this article goes into detail on the Amazon Rainforest<\/a>, quickly turning into a carbon source rather than a carbon sink. Countless articles tell the story of countless animals meeting up with mass die-offs,\u00a0including the elephants in this article<\/a>. Once again,\u00a0Tom Murphy hammers these points out in his new article here<\/a>\u00a0(his word, BTW), quote:<\/div>\n

“What I am saying is that a system powerful enough to destroy ecological health and biodiversity\u2014which we have\u00a0demonstrated<\/a>\u00a0in spades\u2014cannot survive unless it deliberately refrains from using this power. It must invert the cultural hierarchy and place\u00a0ecosystem health\u2014the vitality of the biodiverse planet\u2014above\u00a0all\u00a0other considerations\u2026ABOVE\u00a0<\/i>ALL\u00a0OTHER CONSIDERATIONS<\/i>, to hammer the point.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

We have abundant evidence that we can destroy life, at large scale, up to and including a ballooning number of permanent extinctions. It is far beyond our power to create biodiversity and life\u2014especially pre-tuned to play a viable ecological role in the context of all other life. Only life can create itself, and only long exposure to the full world-as-it-is can shape life to work in the long term, via multi-level selection processes. While we can\u2019t create and shape life to our whims, what we can do is get out of its way: let life do what it does best. Give it room. Make it a priority…<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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Why Do Today’s Realities Escape Society? Philpott Lake, Virginia, as seen from the Visitor Center of Philpott Dam First of all, many people\u00a0do\u00a0clearly see what is happening. However, society as a whole still has many blind spots. The news continues to worsen regularly as\u00a0this article\u00a0points out, and\u00a0more studies pointing out tree decline\u00a0and deforestation like\u00a0I have […]<\/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":[72,34020,34021,31189,31180,669,736],"class_list":["post-66253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-biodiversity","tag-blindspots","tag-ecological-systems","tag-erik-michaels","tag-problems-predicaments-and-technology","tag-reality","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66253","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=66253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66254,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66253\/revisions\/66254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}