{"id":361,"date":"2015-06-10T12:13:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T12:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2015\/06\/10\/spoiler-alert-its-a-parable-about-global-climate-collapse\/"},"modified":"2015-06-10T12:13:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T12:13:54","slug":"spoiler-alert-its-a-parable-about-global-climate-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2015\/06\/spoiler-alert-its-a-parable-about-global-climate-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: It\u2019s a Parable about Global Climate Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Cautionary tale: A parable of science fiction.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2015\/06\/10\/cautionary_tale_a_parable_of_science_fiction.html\">Cautionary tale: A parable of science fiction.<\/a><br \/>\nYes, to a large chunk of folks it&#8217;ll be suitably obvious what Plait is driving at by about graff 3, but I still want to put this in front of folks because the piece is sturdy (if a touch tedious at moments, and clunking in the conclusion) and rhetorically useful. For those who are aware of climate collapse in a sort of background-noise way, it&#8217;s likely to be instructive.<br \/>\nAnyway, just to be super-duper clear: <B>We are indeed already in the midst of an Extinction Level Event<\/B>.  I&#8217;m not saying that to be cynical or dramatic or to spur you to this action (or inaction) or that one; I&#8217;m saying it because it is factually the case.<br \/>\nFor rather obvious reasons, it puts me into the mind of this song:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FSOHO3GwEPg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cautionary tale: A parable of science fiction. Yes, to a large chunk of folks it&#8217;ll be suitably obvious what Plait is driving at by about graff 3, but I still want to put this in front of folks because the piece is sturdy (if a touch tedious at moments, and clunking in the conclusion) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2015\/06\/spoiler-alert-its-a-parable-about-global-climate-collapse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SPOILER ALERT: It\u2019s a Parable about Global Climate Collapse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}