{"id":66894,"date":"2024-03-03T07:01:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T12:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66894"},"modified":"2024-03-03T07:01:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T12:01:41","slug":"ignorance-hubris-and-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66894","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance, Hubris, and Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ignorance, Hubris, and Stupidity<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Artwork from\u00a0Ken Avidor<\/a><\/div>\n

As I frequently point out, we face a series of\u00a0predicaments all brought to us as a result of our own behavior of using technology<\/a>, which has produced the predicament of\u00a0ecological overshoot<\/a>. When a species goes into overshoot, it\u00a0always<\/i><\/b>\u00a0faces the same outcome:\u00a0collapse<\/a>. There is quite literally no way to avoid this; it is baked into cake, so to speak. I frequently hear people talk about avoiding collapse to which I can only chuckle and explain that attempting to\u00a0avoid collapse and extend civilization<\/a>\u00a0is a fool’s errand because all this does is steepen the\u00a0Seneca Cliff<\/a>\u00a0once the ability to extend civilization dries up. Civilization exists upon the surplus energy provided by technology use such as that furnished through agriculture; this then provides the ability of humans to develop permanent settlements which is the beginning of a civilization. Sadly,\u00a0civilizations are unsustainable<\/a>\u00a0and each one that has ever come into being has also collapsed. Today’s civilization is no different and\u00a0there will never be a sustainable civilization<\/i><\/b>. Talk of such ideas is no different than “sustainable” development or “green” growth (see\u00a0greenwashing<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I genuinely want people to understand the truth about where we are within these systems and predicaments and what\u00a0can<\/i><\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0cannot<\/i><\/b> be done about them. Most people’s responses are fueled by a desire to “fight” one of the symptom predicaments such as climate change or energy and resource decline. Sadly, a considerable number of those folks read or hear something about stopping or reversing climate change or emissions or any other symptom predicament and get the incorrect idea that this is actually possible…<\/p>\n

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Ignorance, Hubris, and Stupidity Artwork from\u00a0Ken Avidor As I frequently point out, we face a series of\u00a0predicaments all brought to us as a result of our own behavior of using technology, which has produced the predicament of\u00a0ecological overshoot. When a species goes into overshoot, it\u00a0always\u00a0faces the same outcome:\u00a0collapse. There is quite literally no way to […]<\/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":[150,22093,31189,2427,417,31180,1776,31638,769,786,7474],"class_list":["post-66894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-ecological-overshoot","tag-erik-michaels","tag-hubris","tag-ignorance","tag-problems-predicaments-and-technology","tag-seneca-cliff","tag-stupidity","tag-sustainability","tag-technology","tag-unsustainable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66894","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=66894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66895,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66894\/revisions\/66895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}