{"id":116,"date":"2012-06-27T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T08:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2012-06-27T08:20:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T08:20:17","slug":"environmentalism-is-not-a-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/environmentalism-is-not-a-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmentalism is not a religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My response to:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2012\/jun\/26\/climate-change-skeptic-religion?commentpage=6#start-of-comments\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2012\/jun\/26\/climate-change-skeptic-religion?commentpage=6#start-of-comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s the exact opposite of a religion. We environmentalists have looked around at the state of the world, gathered evidence, considered the possibilities and (quite often) reluctantly come to the conclusion that &#8220;someone should do something&#8221; and &#8220;I am someone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Believe me, I would much rather that the world was fine and I could spend my time on something else instead.<\/p>\n<p>I am convinced by the evidence, where global or local it all points in one direction. I&#8217;m also convinced by the successes, from the action against CFCs, the ever-growing amount of organic food available (again &#8211; it was all your grandparents had), and the cleaning up of rivers in many countries through to the many permaculture projects regenerating wasteland and making it productive for human civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Humans are amazing. We can fix the world and we will fix the world. It does however seem that we will have to get on with building a better world without waiting for agreement from everyone, let alone governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My response to:\u00a0http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2012\/jun\/26\/climate-change-skeptic-religion?commentpage=6#start-of-comments I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s the exact opposite of a religion. We environmentalists have looked around at the state of the world, gathered evidence, considered the possibilities and (quite often) reluctantly come to the conclusion that &#8220;someone should do something&#8221; and &#8220;I am someone&#8221;. Believe me, I would much rather that the world was [&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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1wIKv-1S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}