{"id":24845,"date":"2011-12-25T13:52:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T20:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/25\/gaea-shrugged.html"},"modified":"2011-12-26T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T19:29:12","slug":"gaea-shrugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/25\/gaea-shrugged.html","title":{"rendered":"Gaea Shrugged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we manage to crash civilization through climate change &#8230; the biosphere will still exist.  I doubt we&#39;ll actually go extinct &#8212; humans, like coyotes, are pretty flexible critters.  But there&#39;s a lot of area between &quot;extinct&quot; and &quot;living at a primitive, subsistence level&quot; &#8230; and humanity has spent most of its time there, and could very well end up there again.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#39;ve also heard it argued that our harvesting of most of the easily found raw materials and energy sources around would make a return to civilization again a lot more difficult than the first time around.)<\/p>\n<p>Concern about, and action on, anthropogenic climate change isn&#39;t about being tree huggers more interested in endangered species than people.  It really is about caring for humanity. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timeagan.com%2FMT%2Farchives%2FDeep%2520Cover%2Fimages%2Fdeepcover-12.15.2011.jpg%3Fw%3D300%26h%3D300' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/timpanogos.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/22\/human-extinction-nature-doesnt-care\/'>Human extinction?  Nature doesn\u2019t\u00a0care<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSome of the cartoonists get it.\u00a0 Mother Earth will survive human extinction; it&#39;s humans who will suffer if we don&#39;t work to save ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Eagan in Deep Cover, December 15, 2011:<\/p>\n<p>T&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we manage to crash civilization through climate change &#8230; the biosphere will still exist. I doubt we&#39;ll actually go extinct &#8212; humans, like coyotes, are pretty flexible critters. But there&#39;s a lot of area between &quot;extinct&quot; and &quot;living at a primitive, subsistence level&quot; &#8230; and humanity has spent most of its time there, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/25\/gaea-shrugged.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gaea Shrugged&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,63],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-environment","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":24845,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":24845,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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