{"id":67486,"date":"2024-04-22T18:33:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T23:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67486"},"modified":"2024-04-22T18:33:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T23:33:03","slug":"dont-talk-to-me-about-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67486","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Talk To Me About Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetcritical.com\/p\/dont-talk-to-me-about-solutions\">Don\u2019t Talk To Me About Solutions<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"subtitle\"><strong>The System Itself is the Problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"available-content\">\n<div class=\"body markup\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>It\u2019s 2024 and I\u2019m suspicious of \u201csolutions\u201d. Solutions to what, exactly? The excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that have already seen us breach the 1.5 degree limit set by the Paris Agreement? The ocean acidification that\u2019s bleaching corals en masse? The rampant deforestation and habitat destruction that\u2019s seen half of the world\u2019s wilderness turned into farmland? How about the economic system with its limited prescription of value that converts what is priceless into profit? The political gridlock on climate thanks to our addiction to fossil fuels? The record-breaking profits of those energy companies with plans to double global extraction? Or the debt bondage that keeps the global south trapped in poverty? The political hierarchy that means the world\u2019s most war-mongering country calls the shots? How about resource scarcity for an energy transition? How about water shortages? Genocide?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no magic bullet for this level of complexity. What is clear\u2014more and more as the months go on and climate goals, peace goals and equity goals are sacrificed in the name of imperialism\u2014we need systems revolution, not systems reform. The world is looking at food shortages, droughts, a financial crisis, world war three and worsening impacts of the climate and biodiversity crisis, not to mention the likelihood of an authoritarian elected to the most powerful position in the world. This is an unprecedented eco-crisis. We need to change how we organise. And we need to organise.<\/p>\n<p>I like \u201ceco\u201d: it comes from the Ancient Greek \u201c\u03bf\u1f36\u03ba\u03bf\u03c2\u201d, (pronounced eek-os) meaning household, which is the root of ecosystem, ecology, ecophilosophy etc etc. We consider \u201ceco\u201d to signify the environment, but what it reveals is that the environment is our home; the wide-scale wilderness of the planet itself is our home; our household, if we can step up to the role of stewards&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t Talk To Me About Solutions The System Itself is the Problem It\u2019s 2024 and I\u2019m suspicious of \u201csolutions\u201d. Solutions to what, exactly? The excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that have already seen us breach the 1.5 degree limit set by the Paris Agreement? The ocean acidification that\u2019s bleaching corals en masse? The rampant [&hellip;]<\/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":[2,4,7],"tags":[141,312,32230,32231,7943],"class_list":["post-67486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-climate-change","tag-financial-crisis","tag-planet-critical","tag-rachel-donald","tag-solutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67486","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=67486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67487,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67486\/revisions\/67487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}