{"id":6956,"date":"2015-03-30T05:33:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T10:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6956"},"modified":"2015-03-30T05:33:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T10:33:38","slug":"with-ten-billion-coming-sustainable-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6956","title":{"rendered":"With ten billion coming, sustainable is not enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/transitionvoice.com\/2015\/03\/with-ten-billion-coming-sustainable-is-not-enough\/\" target=\"_blank\">With ten billion coming, sustainable is not enough<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Stephen Emmott\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Emmott\">Stephen Emmott<\/a>\u00a0is a chief techno-wizard at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England.\u00a0 His brilliant young scientists are doing research in complex natural systems.\u00a0 Their objective is to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J9jdOpV79IQ\">invent miracles<\/a>.\u00a0 They want to program ordinary cells to perform photosynthesis, so we can produce food from sunlight, without plows and seeds.\u00a0 Agriculture can\u2019t feed ten billion.\u00a0 The goal is to delay the onrushing planetary emergency, and push aside annoying obstacles to perpetual growth.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the public seems to be paying little attention to the emergency, if they are aware of it at all.\u00a0 Biking around the university town where I live, I don\u2019t sense a crisis of overpopulation.\u00a0 I don\u2019t sense that global carbon emissions have increased 400 percent in my lifetime.\u00a0 The squirrels, opossums, ducks, and blue jays have not gone extinct.\u00a0 Life seems normal.\u00a0Everything is OK.\u00a0 Right?<\/p>\n<p>A wealth of information can be found online, but many internet factoids are generated by slippery gangsters who accumulate riches by accelerating the planetary emergency.\u00a0 You see their work hundreds of times every day.\u00a0 Among their favorite tools are magical rubber stamps that imprint [SUSTAINABLE] with subliminal green ink \u2014 [SUSTAINABLE] soil mining, [SUSTAINABLE] forest mining, [SUSTAINABLE] fish mining, [SUSTAINABLE] growth, [SUSTAINABLE] development, and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>Emmott\u2019s clan of brilliant scientists is an oddity.\u00a0 They do not have the rubber stamp.\u00a0 They are not wearing choke chains that will be jerked if they express ideas that offend the mighty.\u00a0 They will not lose their jobs if they conclude that we are in the midst of a planetary emergency.\u00a0 When thinkers are free to learn without blinders and hobbles, they come to perceive reality as an intense whirlwind of out-of-control juju.\u00a0 This can be a head-snapping experience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With ten billion coming, sustainable is not enough Stephen Emmott\u00a0is a chief techno-wizard at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England.\u00a0 His brilliant young scientists are doing research in complex natural systems.\u00a0 Their objective is to\u00a0invent miracles.\u00a0 They want to program ordinary cells to perform photosynthesis, so we can produce food from sunlight, without plows and seeds.\u00a0 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