{"id":29151,"date":"2023-08-25T13:39:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T17:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=29151"},"modified":"2023-08-25T13:40:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T17:40:40","slug":"we-are-witnessing-the-first-stages-of-civilizations-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=29151","title":{"rendered":"We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization\u2019s Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Caldor_fire-getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"143\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/environment\/civilization-collapse-climate-change\/\">We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization\u2019s Collapse<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;and an elite failure to abandon harmful practices and adopt new means of production.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Were this a one-time event, you could certainly say that Canada still remains an intact, functioning society. But given the likelihood that the number and extent of wildfires will only increase in the years ahead as temperatures continue to rise, Canada\u2014hard as it might be to believe\u2014can be said to be on the verge of becoming a failed state.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[319,30,21],"class_list":["post-29151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-agw","tag-environment","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29155,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29151\/revisions\/29155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}