{"id":1060,"date":"2009-10-19T18:27:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2009-10-20T08:33:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T08:33:31","slug":"no-plan-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/no-plan-b\/","title":{"rendered":"No Plan &#8220;B&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world faces a &#8220;catastrophe&#8221; of floods, droughts and killer heatwaves if world leaders fail to agree a deal on climate change.\u00a0 Negotiators have 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the &#8220;impasse&#8221;. There is no plan B.<\/p>\n<p>This is the message of Gordon Brown at the\u00a0 Major Economies Forum in London, which brings together 17 of the world&#8217;s biggest greenhouse gas-emitting countries.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately he doesn&#8217;t actually have an answer.\u00a0 Too much confrontation by political and business leaders will continue to distract people from adopting different behaviour.\u00a0 The solution lies in the hands of individuals: you.\u00a0 We must change our habits and consume less.<\/p>\n<p>The impending ecological crisis will make the economic crisis seem like a nice holiday.<\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/8313672.stm\">PM warns of climate &#8216;catastrophe&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world faces a &#8220;catastrophe&#8221; of floods, droughts and killer heatwaves if world leaders fail to agree a deal on climate change.\u00a0 Negotiators have 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the &#8220;impasse&#8221;. There is no plan B. This is the message of Gordon Brown at the\u00a0 Major Economies Forum in &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/no-plan-b\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Plan &#8220;B&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"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":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatechange","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-h6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","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=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}