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		<title>Limiting Global Warming To Two Degrees Celsius Is Not Enough</title>
		<link>https://garryrogers.com/2026/02/23/two-degrees-celsius-is-not-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The biggest threat to life on Earth is the massive damage to the biosphere by humans. This damage comes from our heavy resource use, waste production, and severe global warming. Human actions are pushing natural systems past their limits (Rogers &#8230; <a href="https://garryrogers.com/2026/02/23/two-degrees-celsius-is-not-enough/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Post 5: Ignorance of Innocence, Evidence from the Desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Theories can be dismissed. Long-term data cannot. In 1974, a fire burned through the vegetation along Dead Man Wash in the Sonoran Desert uplands north of Phoenix, AZ. Giant Saguaro cacti were scattered along the wash. Between them grew diverse &#8230; <a href="https://garryrogers.com/2026/02/02/post-5-evidence-from-the-desert/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Post 9: Ignorance of Innocence, Plain Member and Citizen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949 that we abuse land because we see it as commodity. When we see it as our community to which we belong, we tend to use it with more respect. Becoming a &#8220;plain member and citizen&#8221; &#8230; <a href="https://garryrogers.com/2026/01/30/post-9-ignorance-of-innocence-plain-member-and-citizen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Post 8: Ignorance of Innocence, Three Principles of Maturation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Three principles define the shift from adolescence to maturity, from destroyer to steward. Ecocentricity means rejecting the view that nature exists for human utility. It means recognizing intrinsic value throughout the biosphere. Rivers have worth independent of irrigation potential. Forests &#8230; <a href="https://garryrogers.com/2026/01/27/post-8-ignorance-of-innocence-three-principles-of-maturation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Post 7: Ignorance of Innocence, Cognitive Adaptation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Humans possess something no other species has: the capacity to think about our own thinking. We can identify our biases and design systems to counteract them. We can study collapsed civilizations and extract lessons applicable today. We can model futures &#8230; <a href="https://garryrogers.com/2026/01/24/post-7-ignorance-of-innocence-cognitive-adaptation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Post 6: Ignorance of Innocence, Suffering as Teacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We refused to mature through foresight. Now we must mature through catastrophe. This is not punishment. It is pedagogy. The floods, fires, famines, and extinctions are initiatory ordeals—the only teachers capable of piercing frameworks that voluntary learning could not penetrate. &#8230; <a href="https://garryrogers.com/2026/01/21/post-6-ignorance-of-innocence-suffering-as-teacher/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Danger of &#8220;Reticence on Steroids&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://garryrogers.com/2026/01/18/reticence-on-steroids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a candid December 2025 appearance on the program Climate Chat, climatologist James Hansen spoke plainly regarding the state of global climate communication. He described the scientific community&#8217;s current posture not merely as cautious, but as &#8220;scientific reticence on steroids&#8221;. &#8230; <a href="https://garryrogers.com/2026/01/18/reticence-on-steroids/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Post 4: The Thermodynamic Reality</title>
		<link>https://garryrogers.com/2026/01/15/post-4-the-thermodynamic-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Industrial civilization runs on a one-time inheritance. Fossil fuels represent millions of years of accumulated sunlight, compressed and concentrated by geological processes. We are burning in centuries what took eons to form. This is the carbon pulse, an artificial monsoon &#8230; <a href="https://garryrogers.com/2026/01/15/post-4-the-thermodynamic-reality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Post 3: Pathological Industrial Adolescence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The adolescent brain possesses adult capacities for reasoning and manipulation but lacks mature judgment. The adolescent believes themselves invincible, resists external constraints, and prioritizes immediate desires over long-term consequences. Industrial civilization exhibits these same symptoms. Omnipotence fantasies drive our faith &#8230; <a href="https://garryrogers.com/2026/01/12/pathological-industrial-adolescence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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