{"id":16277,"date":"2019-04-18T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/?p=16277"},"modified":"2019-04-18T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:19:00","slug":"only-mass-protests-can-prevent-an-ecological-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/only-mass-protests-can-prevent-an-ecological-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Mass Protests Can Prevent an Ecological Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an opinion piece for the Guardian, George Monbiot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/apr\/15\/rebellion-prevent-ecological-apocalypse-civil-disobedience\">argues that mass protests are \u201cessential\u201d to force a political response to climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the environmental crisis accelerates, and as protest movements like YouthStrike4Climate and Extinction Rebellion make it harder not to see what we face, people discover more inventive means of shutting their eyes and shedding responsibility. Underlying these excuses is a deep-rooted belief that if we really are in trouble, someone somewhere will come to our rescue: \u201cthey\u201d won\u2019t let it happen. But there is no they, just us.<\/p>\n<p>The political class, as anyone who has followed its progress over the past three years can surely now see, is chaotic, unwilling and, in isolation, strategically incapable of addressing even short-term crises, let alone a vast existential predicament.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an opinion piece for the Guardian, George Monbiot argues that mass protests are \u201cessential\u201d to force a political response to climate change. As the environmental crisis accelerates, and as protest movements like YouthStrike4Climate and Extinction Rebellion make it harder not to see what we face, people discover more inventive means of shutting their eyes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/only-mass-protests-can-prevent-an-ecological-apocalypse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Only Mass Protests Can Prevent an Ecological Apocalypse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"close","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[684],"tags":[634,683],"class_list":["post-16277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-news","tag-news-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16278,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16277\/revisions\/16278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}