{"id":8984,"date":"2015-06-10T06:19:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8984"},"modified":"2015-06-10T06:19:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:19:03","slug":"are-we-prepared-to-change-to-prevent-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8984","title":{"rendered":"Are we prepared to change to prevent climate change?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are we prepared to change to prevent climate change?<\/a><\/h3>\n

What is needed to get us out of our comfort zone and fight for our children\u2019s future<\/em><\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you ask, let\u2019s say, a seven year old, it\u2019s all pretty clear. If it\u2019s the way we live, consume and produce that causes climate change, why don\u2019t we simply stop it and start doing things differently? And if there are millions of people too poor even to meet their basic needs, why don\u2019t we tell the rich to share a bit of their overflow so that there is enough for all?<\/p>\n

We may consider this cute and na\u00efve, we may laugh and say, \u201cLook, it\u2019s not all that easy, there are too many complexities and interdependencies and lock-ins and path-dependencies. It\u2019s OK, when you\u2019re older you\u2019ll understand. Our economy needs to grow for us to keep up the good life. It needs to grow to get more people out of poverty, to secure return on investments, and to create jobs in place of those that fell away due to rationalization. We cannot simply stop the machine for something abstract like climate change: this would lead to recession, social unrest and chaos. We have to keep up our economic system to secure social stability, pension schemes and state budgets\u201d\u2014as if social instability, unemployment and\u00a0wars on resources<\/a>\u00a0were not already well on their way.<\/p>\n

Questioning the underlying system logic<\/strong><\/h3>\n

These are all robust arguments hardly ever questioned\u2014following the logic of\u00a0homo economicus<\/a>\u00a0that individual profit and competition are the best means to achieve the higher common good. But what if this system logic itself was the root cause of our environmental and social crises\u2014climate change above all\u2014and needed to be replaced by something new to secure our survival on this planet?<\/p>\n

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Are we prepared to change to prevent climate change? What is needed to get us out of our comfort zone and fight for our children\u2019s future? If you ask, let\u2019s say, a seven year old, it\u2019s all pretty clear. If it\u2019s the way we live, consume and produce that causes climate change, why don\u2019t we […]<\/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],"tags":[113,141,161,240,246,341,6271,6270],"class_list":["post-8984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-consumerism","tag-economic-growth","tag-economy","tag-future","tag-homo-economicus","tag-system-logic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984","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=8984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8985,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions\/8985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}