{"id":132,"date":"2004-09-15T21:53:40","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T21:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=132"},"modified":"2004-09-15T21:53:40","modified_gmt":"2004-09-15T21:53:40","slug":"blair-on-environment-a-welcome-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Blair on Environment: a welcome surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/climatechange\/story\/0,12374,1304748,00.html\">Tony Blair has called for the UK to face the reality of human-caused climate change.<\/a><br \/>\nThis is a huge deal.  Governments have traditionally said &#8216;we can&#8217;t know for sure&#8217; &#8211; the same magic thinking I ranted about a few posts below, only writ large &#8211; out of motivation to avoid doing anything and make hard choices or cross big business.  For the British PM to stand up and make such a claim as this will change the rhetoric a great deal.<br \/>\nCal mentioned that Tony sounds like he is, personally, scared.  And I think she&#8217;s right.  That speech came out of his own realisation that his children are screwed if nothing is done.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s going to be under massive pressure to moderate his position.  I hope he stands strong &#8211; he&#8217;s been bloody-minded enough over Iraq, after all.  And I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s going to achieve terribly much in concrete terms.  He can kiss any Washington influence he actually has goodbye if he tries to make this an issue over there.<br \/>\nBut it shifts the balance of power in the public debate, and that is a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Tony Blair has called for the UK to face the reality of human-caused climate change. This is a huge deal. Governments have traditionally said &#8216;we can&#8217;t know for sure&#8217; &#8211; the same magic thinking I ranted about a few posts below, only writ large &#8211; out of motivation to avoid doing anything and make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=132\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blair on Environment: a welcome surprise<\/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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-28","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","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=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}