{"id":931,"date":"2008-10-23T07:45:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T07:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2008-10-23T07:45:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T07:45:23","slug":"endorsing-the-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"Endorsing The Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruth just posted on how she’s voting this year<\/a>, and it has moved me to comment: in a shock revelation that will come as no surprise to anybody, this election I’m voting Green.
\nWhy? It’s the climate change, stupid. (To coin a phrase.<\/a>) I feel strongly that the Greens are the only party that are really talking about the reality of anthropogenic climate change. The stronger their voice in Parliament, the more they can push the government to start dealing with the problem.
\nThere are other reasons to vote Green; there are other reasons not to vote Green. But from where I’m sitting, climate change is the most important issue in the world right now by a wide margin. All of the other pros and cons of various party platforms just look insignificant next to it, like choosing the best music to listen to while the Titanic goes down.
\nSo I’m voting Green. And if you agree that anthropogenic climate change as the biggest problem on our horizon, I urge you to vote Green as well.
\n(Also, I loved Ruth’s final comment in her post<\/a>: “My favourite thing about New Zealand elections is that you vote with a fat orange felt pen, a clear sign of a serious democracy at work.” Hee!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ruth just posted on how she’s voting this year, and it has moved me to comment: in a shock revelation that will come as no surprise to anybody, this election I’m voting Green. Why? It’s the climate change, stupid. (To coin a phrase.) I feel strongly that the Greens are the only party that are … Continue reading Endorsing The Greens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-political"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-f1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}