{"id":372262,"date":"2018-08-05T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T22:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-end-of-the-line-a-climate-in-crisis-2\/"},"modified":"2018-08-05T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T22:24:09","slug":"the-end-of-the-line-a-climate-in-crisis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-end-of-the-line-a-climate-in-crisis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of the Line \u2013 A Climate in Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_104250\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-104250 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-02-at-9.42.51-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-02-at-9.42.51-AM.png 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-02-at-9.42.51-AM-300x273.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Train Wreck, Montparnasse, 1895<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The world of academia is starting to pick up on the concept that humanity is unknowingly cruising on a train ride to doomsday, a surefire encounter with collapse of society based upon climate crises brought on by exponential climate change. The depth of the problem: It\u2019s inevitable and inescapable.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, people do not want to discuss and\/or read about an impending disruption to society, especially on the scale of a collapse. Still, some academics consider it responsible and in fact necessary to communicate the issue on a pre-collapse basis in order for people to learn to support each other and to explore the radical implications well ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, the premise for Professor Jem Bendell\u2019s brilliant seminal work, \u201cDeep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy, July 27th 2018.\u201d (http:\/\/www.lifeworth.com\/deepadaptation.pdf)<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, at the opening of the essay: \u201cIt is time we consider the implications of it being too late to avert a global environmental catastrophe in the lifetimes of people alive today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seemingly, Professor Bendell is going out on a limb by calling for ecosystem catastrophes followed by social collapse within current lifetimes. Few, if any, academicians dare make such a prediction, and the few that do risk loss of jobs, grant funding, and renunciation by colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Anderson, deputy director of the prestigious Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in a live interview with Amy&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/08\/03\/the-end-of-the-line-a-climate-in-crisis\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Train Wreck, Montparnasse, 1895 The world of academia is starting to pick up on the concept that humanity is unknowingly cruising on a train ride to doomsday, a surefire encounter with collapse of society based upon climate crises brought on by exponential climate change. The depth of the problem: It\u2019s inevitable and inescapable. Nonetheless, people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}