{"id":1009,"date":"2009-09-16T09:59:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T09:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2009-09-17T09:25:06","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T09:25:06","slug":"our-future-you-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/our-future-you-choose\/","title":{"rendered":"Our future. You choose."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This photo is not a scare tactic.  It is a picture of the biosphere in human form &#8230; today.\u00a0 That big head is the rich world, the body is everyone else.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8257766.stm\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/2009\/haitimalnutritionap.jpg?resize=226%2C360\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We can change our future.  The girl in the picture can not.<\/p>\n<p>It is up to you to change. To recognise your fears, breathe and face the reality of humanity&#8217;s footprint on the planet, and do something about it.  Stop flying around the world so much.  Drive less.  Buy less <a href=\"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=469\">stuff<\/a>.  It&#8217;s not someone else&#8217;s responsibility.  You choose our future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/2007\/20070831.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/2007\/melted_globe_300.jpg?resize=300%2C206\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo is not a scare tactic. It is a picture of the biosphere in human form &#8230; today.\u00a0 That big head is the rich world, the body is everyone else. We can change our future. The girl in the picture can not. It is up to you to change. To recognise your fears, breathe &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/our-future-you-choose\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our future. You choose.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[36,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perspective","category-holonics-and-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-gh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}