{"id":8617,"date":"2011-04-03T12:26:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T16:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8617"},"modified":"2011-04-03T12:26:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T16:26:09","slug":"richard-glover-the-internet-may-bring-about-the-death-of-human-civilisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/03\/richard-glover-the-internet-may-bring-about-the-death-of-human-civilisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Glover: &#8220;the internet may bring about the death of human civilisation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/society-and-culture\/why-the-internet-will-destroy-the-planet-20110401-1cri1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Glover<\/a>, a professional broadcaster and columnist, has determined that the collapse of civilization will come from internet trolling denialists:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s increasingly apparent that the internet may bring about the death of human civilisation, beating out previous contenders such as nuclear holocaust and the election of George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p>The agents of this planetary death will be the climate-change deniers who, it&#8217;s now clear, owe much of their existence to the internet. Would the climate-change deniers be this sure of themselves without the internet?<\/p>\n<p>Somehow I doubt it. They are so damn confident.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t just bury their heads in the sand, they fiercely drive their own heads energetically into the nearest beachfront, their bums defiantly aquiver as they fart their toxic message to the world. How can they be so confident, in the face of so much evidence to the contrary?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the internet, of course, and the way it has given climate-change deniers the perfect forum &mdash; one in which groups of quite dim people can swap spurious information, reassuring each other there&#8217;s no evidence on the other side, right up to the point they&#8217;ve derailed all efforts to save the planet. Call it &#8221;mutually reassured destruction&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Glover, a professional broadcaster and columnist, has determined that the collapse of civilization will come from internet trolling denialists: It&#8217;s increasingly apparent that the internet may bring about the death of human civilisation, beating out previous contenders such as nuclear holocaust and the election of George W. Bush. The agents of this planetary death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,28,15],"tags":[245,240,58,39],"class_list":["post-8617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-media","category-technology","tag-climatechange","tag-globalwarming","tag-internet","tag-junkscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2eZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8618,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions\/8618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}