{"id":1134,"date":"2009-12-17T09:52:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T09:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2009-12-17T09:52:45","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T09:52:45","slug":"not-much-chance-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/not-much-chance-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Not much chance for change."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have a look at the thousands of comments on Copenhagen COP 15 and climate change on this <a href=\"http:\/\/newsforums.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/thread.jspa?sortBy=2&amp;forumID=7310&amp;edition=2&amp;ttl=20091217091448&amp;#paginator\">moderated\u00a0 BBC discussion forum<\/a>.\u00a0 Especially if you&#8217;re a green thinker.\u00a0 It&#8217;s pretty depressing, though <a href=\"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1123\">no surprise<\/a>.\u00a0 The reds are loud and cynical, the greens are modest.\u00a0 And it seems that there are far more reds.\u00a0 Which means rich people (ie everyone writing their comments on a computer, not the poorest 3 billion) are not willing to change their behaviour, because they see no reason to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have a look at the thousands of comments on Copenhagen COP 15 and climate change on this moderated\u00a0 BBC discussion forum.\u00a0 Especially if you&#8217;re a green thinker.\u00a0 It&#8217;s pretty depressing, though no surprise.\u00a0 The reds are loud and cynical, the greens are modest.\u00a0 And it seems that there are far more reds.\u00a0 Which means rich &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/not-much-chance-for-change\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not much chance for change.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatechange"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-ii","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","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=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}