{"id":33937,"date":"2021-08-08T16:49:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T21:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33937"},"modified":"2021-08-08T16:49:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T21:49:31","slug":"that-darn-climate-change-conspiracy-ctd-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/08\/that-darn-climate-change-conspiracy-ctd-65\/","title":{"rendered":"That Darn Climate Change Conspiracy, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader remarks on the post concerning <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/05\/that-darn-climate-change-conspiracy-ctd-64\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failing currents in the Atlantic Ocean<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wow. All the bad things climatologist said could happen are all coming to pass ten times faster than originally imagined. Humanity is so incredibly stupid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose it depends on what is meant by &#8216;stupid.&#8217; Humanity never evolved to properly evaluate what has been happening world-wide, has it? Our sensory radius is only a few miles, and none of it is specialized for the kind of pollution that leads to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>I find it difficult to organize my thoughts on the question, perhaps because &#8216;stupid&#8217; can mean many things in this context. How about &#8216;ignorant&#8217;? Are we ignorant? I think our scientists are learning as fast as they can, but the fact that we are not a rationally coordinated species, or society, can render their efforts moot.<\/p>\n<p>And even when coordinated, when the coordinating authority is irrational (think: Pope), it just makes things worse.<\/p>\n<p>The problem may be that a species with our capabilities is doomed to wreck its ecological niche, if only simply through numbers. The creditable impulse to help and heal may be our downfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader remarks on the post concerning failing currents in the Atlantic Ocean: Wow. All the bad things climatologist said could happen are all coming to pass ten times faster than originally imagined. Humanity is so incredibly stupid. I suppose it depends on what is meant by &#8216;stupid.&#8217; Humanity never \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/08\/that-darn-climate-change-conspiracy-ctd-65\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33938,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33937\/revisions\/33938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}