{"id":3442,"date":"2019-10-10T01:40:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T05:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2019-10-10T01:40:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T05:40:30","slug":"the-big-polluters-masterstroke-was-to-blame-the-climate-crisis-on-you-and-me-george-monbiot-opinion-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/10\/the-big-polluters-masterstroke-was-to-blame-the-climate-crisis-on-you-and-me-george-monbiot-opinion-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The big polluters\u2019 masterstroke was to blame the climate crisis on you and me | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Let\u2019s stop calling this the Sixth Great Extinction. Let\u2019s start calling it what it is: the \u201cfirst great extermination\u201d. A recent essay by the environmental historian Justin McBrien argues that describing the current eradication of living systems (including human societies) as an extinction event makes this catastrophe sound like a passive accident.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>While we are all participants in the first great extermination, our responsibility is not evenly shared. The impacts of most of the world\u2019s people are minimal. Even middle-class people in the rich world, whose effects are significant, are guided by a system of thought and action that is shaped in large part by corporations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/oct\/09\/polluters-climate-crisis-fossil-fuel?fbclid=IwAR37E7aoYauYYwTgCCPFfutaHvdMCw3fcenyoarC8uBPQRjxVN9pLYwTO5k\">The big polluters\u2019 masterstroke was to blame the climate crisis on you and me | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s stop calling this the Sixth Great Extinction. Let\u2019s start calling it what it is: the \u201cfirst great extermination\u201d. A recent essay by the environmental&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}