{"id":380574,"date":"2018-10-11T19:41:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T18:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/transcending-climate-change-dissident-voice\/"},"modified":"2018-10-11T19:41:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T18:41:24","slug":"transcending-climate-change-dissident-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/transcending-climate-change-dissident-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcending Climate Change | Dissident Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-85253\">\n<p class=\"byline\">by Manuel Garcia Jr. \/ October 10th, 2018<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/10\/transcending-climate-change\/san-francisco-dusk-14-march-2018\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85254\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85254\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/san-francisco-dusk-14-march-2018-e1539164576616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>San Francisco Dusk, 14 March 2018 (Photo by Manuel Garcia Jr. taken from a ridge crest due east of the Golden Gate Bridge)<\/p>\n<p>Climate Change \/ Energy Transformation is a great challenge for us all. Approached with gusto, solidarity and creativity, it could be an exhilarating rebirth of everything and everyone we know \u2013 we can create Paradise if we choose to. If, instead, we shrink from this challenge, in denial, fear, timidly, submissiveness, without any spirit or confidence, then, yes, this formidable Earth-changing realty could drift into a long, enveloping, tedious, glacially-paced catastrophe for us, leading \u2013 who knows when \u2013 to our unglamorous individually unnoticed and lonely demise.<\/p>\n<p>You have to realize that whether or when we \u201cgo extinct\u201d is really beyond our control at any time; that rests in the hands of the greater geophysical, cosmic and chaotic power of Nature (which on Earth is certainly being prodded annoyingly by our puny yet persistent and mindless thermodynamic wastefulness). But, how we live as a species, and how we collectively express our awareness \u2013 and appreciation \u2013 of being alive, of being conscious, of being a human society: that is something we have complete control over for however long our species is graced with life.<\/p>\n<p>So, really, the challenge is far beyond just finding exclusive escape routes from our deteriorating here-and-now to some minimally bearable new&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/10\/transcending-climate-change\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Manuel Garcia Jr. \/ October 10th, 2018 San Francisco Dusk, 14 March 2018 (Photo by Manuel Garcia Jr. taken from a ridge crest due east of the Golden Gate Bridge) Climate Change \/ Energy Transformation is a great challenge for us all. Approached with gusto, solidarity and creativity, it could be an exhilarating rebirth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380574","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\/380574","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}