{"id":1126,"date":"2009-08-13T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:12:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:12:37","slug":"call-me-neo-malthus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"Call me Neo-Malthus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signon.org.nz\/climate-change\">Greenpeace campaign fronted by noted Kiwi scientist Jim Salinger<\/a>: &#8220;NZ needs to achieve 40% reduction in carbon emissions&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/PO0908\/S00108.htm\">NZ govt, Monday 10 August<\/a>: &#8220;Our target is between 10%-20%&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/PO0908\/S00127.htm>NZ govt, Tuesday 11 August<\/a>: &#8220;but all you other countries better do 30%-40%&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.signon.org.nz\/blog\/nz-found-blushing-in-the-spotlight\">Climate Action Network, Tuesday 11 August<\/a>: &#8220;Will New Zealand name the countries it expects to do its share of the effort in its place?&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fedfarm.org.nz\/n1578.html\">Don Nicolson, President of Federated Farmers, Tuesday 11 August<\/a>: &#8220;Back in the early 19th century, Thomas Malthus published An Essay on the Principle of Population&#8230; The world was producing as much food as it ever could.  The Greens would call it &#8216;Peak Food&#8217;&#8230; Neo-Malthusians can be seen in the anti-globalisation and green movements. Peak oil, peak food, peak carbon.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/hot-topic.co.nz\/the-size-of-a-cow\/>Hot Topic, Weds 12 August<\/a>: *cough*<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/breaking-news-world\/taiwan-suffers-worst-floods-in-50-years-20090809-edzh.html>Global climate system<\/a>: &#8220;Taiwan suffers worst floods in 50 years&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenpeace campaign fronted by noted Kiwi scientist Jim Salinger: &#8220;NZ needs to achieve 40% reduction in carbon emissions&#8221; NZ govt, Monday 10 August: &#8220;Our target is between 10%-20%&#8221; NZ govt, Tuesday 11 August: &#8220;but all you other countries better do 30%-40%&#8221; Climate Action Network, Tuesday 11 August: &#8220;Will New Zealand name the countries it expects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Call me Neo-Malthus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-political","category-sustainability"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-ia","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}