{"id":934,"date":"2017-08-18T06:20:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T06:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/?p=934"},"modified":"2017-08-18T06:20:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T06:20:14","slug":"in-the-era-of-global-warmingwe-can-no-longer-afford-to-think-and-act-only-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/in-the-era-of-global-warmingwe-can-no-longer-afford-to-think-and-act-only-locally\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Era of Global Warming\u2026We Can No Longer Afford to Think and Act Only Locally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-935\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/components_of_the_climate_system.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/components_of_the_climate_system.png 413w, https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/components_of_the_climate_system-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/>With all the factors that influence climate change and the perception that individual choices have marginal effect in the grand scheme of things, it\u2019s understandable why the issue of climate change seems to be constantly swept under the rug. \u00a0In northern regions where contributions to global warming have been significant, the impacts felt thus far have been minimal enabling us to falsely believe that are past transgressions won\u2019t come back to bite us. The time for individual action alone has come and gone.\u00a0 Individuals still have an important vote to make every day with their food dollars but it still has a role but it must be coupled with collective action.\u00a0 Continued collective procrastination is almost certain to accelerate the process and likely exacerbate the impact felt.\u00a0 We need to get our heads out of the sand and acknowledge what is happening.\u00a0 The greenhouse effect is real and really not as complicated as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-936\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/greenhouse-effect.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/greenhouse-effect.jpg 600w, https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/greenhouse-effect-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So with a future of food uncertainty a very real possibility, the luxury of thinking and acting only locally is no longer acceptable.\u00a0 Even though it is disheartening when all this effort goes into creating policies only to see no person\u00a0or country held accountable when they are not followed. \u00a0We must push on.\u00a0 Undoubtedly collective action will be difficult because it involves cooperation, but it is necessary to make the kind of large scale changes required to reverse the current unsustainable trends the World Food System has created.\u00a0 If not, all this talk about change is just window dressing so we could tell our kids that we &#8220;tried&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore about Global Warming.\u201d\u00a0 Harden Up, Green Cross Australia, 2017, <a href=\"http:\/\/hardenup.org\/be-aware\/projection-science\/the-greenhouse-effect\/more-global-warming.aspx\">http:\/\/hardenup.org\/be-aware\/projection-science\/the-greenhouse-effect\/more-global-warming.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the factors that influence climate change and the perception that individual choices have marginal effect in the grand scheme of things, it\u2019s understandable why the issue of climate change seems to be constantly swept under the rug. \u00a0In northern regions where contributions to global warming have been significant, the impacts felt thus far have been minimal enabling us&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/in-the-era-of-global-warmingwe-can-no-longer-afford-to-think-and-act-only-locally\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[110,39,279,153,35],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-social-movements","tag-anthropocene","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-complexity","tag-contemplative-practice","tag-globalization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}