{"id":364,"date":"2018-02-21T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T10:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/?p=364"},"modified":"2018-02-21T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T10:24:23","slug":"industrial-human-communities-are-detritovorous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/2018\/02\/industrial-human-communities-are-detritovorous\/","title":{"rendered":"industrial human communities are \u2018detritovorous\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"title\" class=\"graf graf--h2 graf--leading graf--title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/criticaltheoryresearchnetwork.com\/2018\/02\/14\/threat-reflections-near-term-human-extinction\/\">We Are the Threat: Reflections on Near-Term Human Extinction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This new, properly ecological perspective on humanity shows us that <strong>Homo colossus is, in fact, a detritovore.<\/strong> A detritovore is \u201can organism that subsists by consuming detritus,\u201d or waste products. (Conventional examples of detritovores include algae, fungi, worms, potato bugs, and fiddler crabs.) But if we recognize that what <strong>Homo colossus consumes, above all else, is fossil fuels<\/strong> \u2013 for example, via foodstuffs that exist and can only exist in adequate quantities through the use of fossil fueled technologies, like industrial agriculture, and supply chains that require vast fleets of fossil fueled vehicles, etc. \u2013 then we can clearly see that humans, too, have become detritovores. Accordingly, \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>industrial human communities are \u2018detritovorous\u2019 insofar as they depend on massive consumption of the transformed organic remains from the Carboniferous period known as fossil fuels.<\/strong><\/span>\u201d That is, instead of feces, our detritus sources are lumps and puddles of fossilized corpses. These long dead organisms, when they were living, obtained their own energy either directly or indirectly from photosynthesis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Are the Threat: Reflections on Near-Term Human Extinction &nbsp; This new, properly ecological perspective on humanity shows us that Homo colossus is, in fact, a detritovore. A detritovore is \u201can organism that subsists by consuming detritus,\u201d or waste products. (Conventional examples of detritovores include algae, fungi, worms, potato bugs, and fiddler crabs.) But if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,80,79],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-big-picture","tag-fossile-fuels","tag-human"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}