{"id":11365,"date":"2012-07-19T22:56:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T22:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=11365"},"modified":"2012-07-19T22:56:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T22:56:33","slug":"look-i%e2%80%99m-sorry-to-be-so-blunt-ii-all-you-need-is-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=11365","title":{"rendered":"Look, I\u2019m sorry to be so blunt &#8212; II: all you need is math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; global warming, global curriculum ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_11369\" style=\"width: 654px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/acidcow.com\/pics\/3020-turning_an_aircraft_carrier_8_pics.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11369\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/aircraft-carrier.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"aircraft carrier\" width=\"644\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/aircraft-carrier.png 644w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/aircraft-carrier-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">you can turn an aircraft carrier pretty fast -- but the human population?<\/p><\/div>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill McKibben<\/strong> has an article out in <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, <a href=\"www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719\">Global Warming&#8217;s Terrifying New Math<\/a>, in which he says: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic. But to grasp the seriousness of our predicament, you just need to do a little math.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, no you don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>You need something closer to global understanding.  Once you&#8217;ve gathered &#8212; via that &#8220;little math&#8221; &#8212; that we&#8217;re not on a sustainable track, you&#8217;ll need to understand a few other things.  Like:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>how individual minds get into and out of ruts<\/li>\n<li>how slow the turning circle of a society can be, and<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainer.org\/pubs\/Leverage_Points.pdf\">places to intervene in a system<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Look, I\u2019m sorry to be so blunt, but&#8230; the problem isn&#8217;t <em>understanding<\/em>, it&#8217;s <em>changing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Psychology. <em>Inwardness<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And I can&#8217;t speak for economy or ideology, but believe me &#8212; theology will have a role to play!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; global warming, global curriculum ] . . Bill McKibben has an article out in Rolling Stone, Global Warming&#8217;s Terrifying New Math, in which he says: When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic. But to grasp the seriousness of our predicament, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[791,526,327,9,332,776,793,374,436,523,792],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-charles-cameron","category-complex-systems","category-complexity","category-economics","category-ecosystem","category-global-warming","category-navy","category-psychology","category-theology","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11365"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11386,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365\/revisions\/11386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}