{"id":2883,"date":"2015-01-21T11:32:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T11:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2015-01-22T16:13:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:13:58","slug":"stanley-johnson-on-naomi-klein-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/21\/stanley-johnson-on-naomi-klein-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Johnson on Naomi Klein on Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div class=\"secondPar\">\n<p>In her new book she [Naomi Klein] turns her guns on capitalism\u2019s role in climate change. She argues that \u201cwe have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because these things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism&#8230; We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe \u2013 and would benefit the vast majority \u2013 are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\">\n<p>On this central point, Klein is undoubtedly right.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\">\n<p>Stanley Johnson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/11145801\/This-Changes-Everything-Naomi-Klein.html\"><em>This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein, review: &#8216;undoubtedly right&#8217;<\/em><\/a>, The Telegraph, 7 October 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Klein advocates<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>local activism<\/li>\n<li>disinvestment in earth-destroying corporations<\/li>\n<li>respect for the rights of indigenous peoples<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her new book she [Naomi Klein] turns her guns on capitalism\u2019s role in climate change. She argues that \u201cwe have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because these things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism&#8230; We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/21\/stanley-johnson-on-naomi-klein-on-climate-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stanley Johnson on Naomi Klein on Climate Change<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,687,200],"tags":[676,684],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","category-quotation","tag-climate-change","tag-naomi-klein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2886,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/2886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}