{"id":5619,"date":"2012-10-08T12:15:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T19:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=5619"},"modified":"2012-10-08T12:15:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T19:15:48","slug":"we-are-as-gods-and-have-to-get-good-at-it-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/we-are-as-gods-and-have-to-get-good-at-it-video","title":{"rendered":"We are as Gods and have to get Good at it [video]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The shift that has happened in 40 years which mainly has to do with climate change. Forty years ago, I could say in the Whole Earth Catalog<\/em>, \u201cwe are as gods, we might as well get good at it\u201d. Photographs of earth from space had that god-like perspective. <\/span><\/p>\n

What I\u2019m saying now is we are as gods and have to get good at it. Necessity comes from climate change, potentially disastrous for civilization. The planet will be okay, life will be okay. We will lose vast quantities of species, probably lose the rain forests if the climate keeps heating up. So it\u2019s a global issue, a global phenomenon. It doesn\u2019t happen in just one area. The planetary perspective now is not just aesthetic. It\u2019s not just perspective. It\u2019s actually a world-sized problem that will take world sized solutions that involves forms of governance we don\u2019t have yet. It involves technologies we are just glimpsing. It involves what ecologists call ecosystem engineering. Beavers do it, earthworms do it. They don\u2019t usually do it at a planetary scale. We have to do it at a planetary scale. A lot of sentiments and aesthetics of the environmental movement stand in the way of that. <\/span><\/p>\n

Continue reading \u201cWe are as Gods\u2026\u201d and watch the video interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The shift that has happened in 40 years which mainly has to do with climate change. Forty years ago, I could say in the Whole Earth Catalog, \u201cwe are as gods, we might as well get good at it\u201d. Photographs of earth from space had that god-like perspective. What I\u2019m saying now is we are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,40,38,30,12,20,5,386,37,225,17],"tags":[737,736],"class_list":["post-5619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-complex-systems","category-engineering","category-ethics","category-existential-risks","category-futurism","category-geopolitics","category-homo-sapiens","category-human-trajectories","category-philosophy","category-sustainability","tag-ecology","tag-ecopragmatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}