{"id":66476,"date":"2024-01-18T08:16:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T13:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66476"},"modified":"2024-01-18T08:16:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T13:16:51","slug":"why-is-society-still-mired-in-mainstream-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66476","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Society Still Mired in Mainstream Thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why Is Society Still Mired in Mainstream Thinking?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Eagle Rock Train Station, Eagle Rock, Virginia<\/p>\n

In my last article, I spent a considerable amount of time describing how a large part of society today is still mired in mainstream thinking and I pointed out how I don’t see or expect the possibility that much will change in the future based upon a general lack of interest in the subject of\u00a0ecological overshoot<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0collapse<\/a>\u00a0along with the myriad symptom predicaments that overshoot produces. Much of the material is subject matter that I have covered here before, although some of that (subject matter) was covered a considerable while back.<\/p>\n

It’s just that I see so much material consistently which is based on what amounts to\u00a0unicorn magic pixie dust<\/a>\u00a0rather than actual science or even common sense once one understands the basics of overshoot. Take for instance\u00a0this approach from Simon Michaux<\/a>, which has already been attempted in many different forms in the past, most famously as\u00a0The Venus Project<\/a>. Attempting such projects entirely ignores ecological overshoot and the simple fact that\u00a0civilization itself is unsustainable<\/a>. Michaux made himself widely known for his telling the “Captains of Industry” that\u00a0their plan to replace fossil fuels with non-renewable “renewable” energy harvesting devices, simply stated, would not work<\/a>. So, his plan now has replaced these devices with thorium modular nuclear reactors and he is embarking on a project to build a “radical tomorrow.” Unfortunately,\u00a0this project is destined for failure<\/a>.\u00a0It isn’t how civilization is powered that is the issue, it is the fact that civilization is built on the platform of technology use, making BOTH of those systems unsustainable. It is precisely the power of technology to remove or reduce negative feedbacks allowing for population growth which then feeds back into a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop of more people, more technology use, and increasing overshoot. Powering it differently won’t change anything –\u00a0the systems themselves will remain unsustainable<\/i>.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Why Is Society Still Mired in Mainstream Thinking? Eagle Rock Train Station, Eagle Rock, Virginia In my last article, I spent a considerable amount of time describing how a large part of society today is still mired in mainstream thinking and I pointed out how I don’t see or expect the possibility that much will […]<\/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":[31189,4692,4798,33927,31180,1453,769],"class_list":["post-66476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-erik-michaels","tag-magical-thinking","tag-mainstream-narratives","tag-non-renewable-renewable-energy-harvesting-technology","tag-problems-predicaments-and-technology","tag-resource-depletion","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66476","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=66476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66477,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66476\/revisions\/66477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}