{"id":17733,"date":"2014-07-08T08:08:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T12:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17733"},"modified":"2014-07-08T08:10:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T12:10:49","slug":"ilargi-overshoot-loop-and-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/07\/08\/ilargi-overshoot-loop-and-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilargi: Overshoot Loop and Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naked Capitalism<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2014\/07\/ilargi-overshoot-loop-evolution.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29\" title=\"Naked Capitalism article\" target=\"_blank\">Ilargi: Overshoot Loop and Evolution<\/a>.  I&#8217;ll just quote Yves Smith&#8217;s summary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYves here. As Ilargi himself acknowledges, even by the standards of his fare, this post on &#8220;overshoot&#8221; is plenty sobering. We do seem to be on our way to precipitating a mass species die off (as in it&#8217;s underway already and humans seem remarkably unwilling to take sufficiently stern measures to stop it). The end of civilization as we know it seems almost inevitable, given that most &#8220;advanced&#8221; economies are seeing serious erosion of their social fabric, as reflected in falling social well-being measures. However, the provocative point that Jay Hanson argues is that our hard-wired political habits guarantee our undoing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The main article introduces some very thought provoking ideas.  The comments also go a long way toward preventing the original author from getting away with too much.  You get the most out of this by considering both the article and the body of comments.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly like the thought that the open source software development movement might be a template for how we conduct ourselves in the post industrial society.  When we don&#8217;t have to work the majority of the time to survive, what will we do with our time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Capitalism has the article Ilargi: Overshoot Loop and Evolution. I&#8217;ll just quote Yves Smith&#8217;s summary: Yves here. As Ilargi himself acknowledges, even by the standards of his fare, this post on &#8220;overshoot&#8221; is plenty sobering. We do seem to be on our way to precipitating a mass species die off (as in it&#8217;s underway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17736,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17733\/revisions\/17736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}