{"id":12792,"date":"2014-03-17T11:54:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T15:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=12792"},"modified":"2014-03-17T11:54:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T15:54:44","slug":"merchants-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=12792","title":{"rendered":"The Merchants of Doom"},"content":{"rendered":"

https://ramedicare.com/auto-draft/ Paul Ehrlich<\/a> and Ann Ehrlich<\/a>, two long-time prominent voices in the environmental community, often speculate about the future of humanity. They recently shared<\/a>\u00a0this anecdote:<\/p>\n

A few years ago we had a disagreement with our friend Jim Brown, a leading ecologist.\u00a0 We told him we thought there was about a 10 percent chance of avoiding a collapse of civilization but, because of concern for our grandchildren and great grandchildren, we were willing to struggle to make it 11 percent.\u00a0 He said his estimate of the chance of avoiding collapse was only 1 percent, but he was working to make it 1.1 percent.\u00a0 Sadly, recent trends and events make us think Jim might have been optimistic.\u00a0 Perhaps now it\u2019s time to talk about preparing for some form of collapse soon, hopefully to make a relatively soft \u201clanding.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://alpineinterface.com/swiss-mountain-huts/ If you want to know why the Ehrlichs think it’s essentially game over for civilization, read their 2013\u00a0paper<\/a>\u00a0published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. <\/em>Their diagnosis:<\/p>\n

The human predicament is driven by overpopulation, overconsumption of natural resources and the use of unnecessarily environmentally damaging technologies and socio-economic-political arrangements to service Homo sapiens\u2019 aggregate consumption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Translation: Too many damn people on the earth, driving cars, buying too much crap, all made possible by a globalized, industrialized, capitalistic system. Or something like that. Unsurprisingly, the Ehrlichs don’t agree<\/a> with those who paint a sunnier view<\/a> of humanity’s current trajectory.\u00a0(What might a model sustainable society look like? Paul Ehrlich recently\u00a0pointed\u00a0<\/a>to Australia’s Aboriginal culture.)<\/p>\n

Ambien 10 Mg Price Now I’m not the only one to observe that the environmental community, as a whole, has a bleak view of the future<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Buy Hydrocodone Online Overnight But is the near-future collapse of civilization virtually guaranteed, as the Ehrlichs seem to think? Is there no reversing this collision course? Here’s what UK environmentalist Jonathan Porritt said last week in an interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A lot of people in my community of sustainability professionals have basically come to the conclusion it\u2019s too late.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lorazepam Purchase Online This strikes me as a self-defeating outlook, as I hinted<\/a>\u00a0the other day. It lends itself to the fatalism<\/a> that has already infected environmental discourse, which I have previously discussed<\/a>:<\/p>\n

https://www.andrewplimmer.com/business-tools-and-resources/ If you are a regular consumer of environmental news and commentary, you are familiar with the narrative of humanity\u2019s downfall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the current issue of The New York Review Of Books<\/em>, the novelist Zadie Smith is conflicted<\/a> about this eco-doomsday narrative. On the one hand, she is bothered that most people aren’t taking seriously “the visions of apocalypse conjured by climate scientists and movie directors,” which she refers to as\u00a0“the coming emergency.” But she also seems to get the futility of this storyline:<\/p>\n

Purchase Hydrocodone Online Sometimes the global, repetitive nature of this elegy is so exhaustively sad\u2014and so divorced from any attempts at meaningful action\u2014that you can\u2019t fail to detect in the elegists a fatalist liberal consciousness that has, when you get right down to it, as much of a perverse desire for the apocalypse as the evangelicals we supposedly scorn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Purchase Klonopin Online Indeed, the merchants of eco-doom who peddle their vision of apocalypse to a secular choir are just as self-rightous and scornful of humanity as the fundamentalist preachers who hawk their hellfire and brimstone sermons. And like the most warped\u00a0fundamentalists<\/a>\u00a0who exploit tragedy, the merchants of eco-doom also cynically seize on current events. On this score, nobody rivals\u00a0Nafeez Ahmed<\/a>\u00a0(the UK Left’s faux-scholarly equivalent to Glenn Beck<\/a>), who has an unquenchable appetite for\u00a0peak-everything porn<\/a>. (For commentary on his latest connect-the-collapse dots, see this post<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Not all greens have a fetish for doomsday scenarios. Some are are trying to chart a more empowering vision<\/a>\u00a0for environmentalism.\u00a0Porritt belongs to this group. He has a new\u00a0book<\/a>\u00a0that appears\u00a0hopeful about the future.<\/p>\n

https://raceflowdevelopment.com/customer-service/ If only more environmentalists could snap out of their endless mourning for the planet and offer the rest of us something to look forward to other than imminent eco-collapse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get Online Xanax Prescription Paul Ehrlich and Ann Ehrlich, two long-time prominent voices in the environmental community, often speculate about the future of humanity. They recently shared\u00a0this anecdote: A few years ago we had a disagreement with our friend Jim Brown, a leading ecologist.\u00a0 We told him we thought there was about a 10 percent chance of avoiding a… https://worklivelaos.com/icbc4/ Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2572,2626,2627,2659],"tags":[871,969,1019],"class_list":["post-12792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collapse","category-ecocide","category-ecology","category-environmentalism","tag-collapse","tag-ecology","tag-environmentalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}