I penned this more than two years ago as members of the world\u2019s ruling caste gathered for COP26. It\u2019s just as relevant today as these so-called \u2018leaders\u2019 gather once again in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for COP28\u2026<\/p>\n
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Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXI– Blog<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Medium<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIf we are not discussing significant degrowth, however (and we\u2019re not because there\u2019s no money to be made from it and the primary motivation of the ruling class, who control the mainstream narratives, is the control\/expansion of the wealth-generating systems that provide their revenue streams), then it would seem we are just creating stories to sell more stuff and people tend to accept them readily because they reduce cognitive dissonance \u2014 we recognise we live on a finite planet and infinite growth is not possible (except through extreme magical, Cargo Cult-like thinking) but want to also believe that we can continue to live in our energy- and resource-intensive lifestyles uninterrupted and without significant sacrifice\u201d<\/p>\n Also see: Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXII– Blog<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Medium<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I penned this more than two years ago as members of the world\u2019s ruling caste gathered for COP26. It\u2019s just as relevant today as these so-called \u2018leaders\u2019 gather once again in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for COP28\u2026 _____ Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXI– Beware the Snake Oil Salesmen: Climate Change and Elite Confabs Blog\u00a0 \u00a0 […]<\/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":[2,3,4,5,6,7],"tags":[141,150,34032,30370,33947],"class_list":["post-66304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-climate-change","tag-collapse","tag-cop28","tag-todays-contemplation","tag-todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66304","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=66304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66305,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66304\/revisions\/66305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBeware the Snake Oil Salesmen: Climate Change and Elite Confabs<\/strong><\/p>\n
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