{"id":68441,"date":"2024-05-29T19:48:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T00:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68441"},"modified":"2024-05-29T19:48:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T00:48:32","slug":"the-destiny-of-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68441","title":{"rendered":"The Destiny of Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Destiny of Civilization<\/a><\/h3>\n

From the cave to the stars\u2026?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We live in dangerous times. Everything seems to be out of normal: stagnating economies, inflation, wars and an unfolding ecological and climate disaster. This is clearly not how things ought to be\u2026 While many just wave a hand and say, we will get over it, an increasing number of people feel\u200a\u2014\u200aalmost instinctively\u200a\u2014\u200athat there is something terribly amiss with the stories we tell ourselves about where we are headed as a society. By now we should be already on track to \u201cdecarbonize\u201d the economy and green technologies should\u2019ve brought about a new bout of prosperity\u2026 What we have instead is rising emissions, a fracturing world order, and a rapid decline of living standards, especially in the most prosperous parts of the globe\u2026 What\u2019s wrong with you, world\u2026? Isn\u2019t there a better story out there to help us through this perilous period?<\/em><\/p>\n

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I ended my previous essay about the decline of science and progress on a rather philosophical note\u200a\u2014\u200acalling for a new eschatology enabling us to move past this civilization and to let go what cannot be hold onto. Eschatology, a word of Greek origin, is a set of beliefs concerning the end\u200a\u2014\u200abe it the end of a human life, or the end of times itself. While the expression is used to discuss religious matters, this time I will focus on a much wider set of beliefs, concerning not only a certain faith, but civilization itself. Although this might sound a little abstract, what we\u200a\u2014\u200aand most importantly our politicians\u200a\u2014\u200abelieve what our ultimate destiny is as a society, however, has an outsized impact on our future…<\/p>\n

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The Destiny of Civilization From the cave to the stars\u2026? Photo by\u00a0Greg Rakozy\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash We live in dangerous times. Everything seems to be out of normal: stagnating economies, inflation, wars and an unfolding ecological and climate disaster. This is clearly not how things ought to be\u2026 While many just wave a hand and say, we 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":[2,3,4,5],"tags":[138,1825,705,32578],"class_list":["post-68441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-geopolitics","tag-civilisation","tag-progress","tag-science","tag-the-honest-sorcerer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68441","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=68441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68442,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68441\/revisions\/68442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}