{"id":1264,"date":"2009-10-31T08:12:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T12:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2009-10-31T08:12:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T12:12:59","slug":"1264","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/31\/1264\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTraumatic \u2018shocks to the system\u2019 needed to jolt politicians\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Even today&#8217;s climate optimists acknowledge that there are going to have to be some traumatic &#8216;shocks to the system&#8217;, induced by accelerated climate change, to jolt politicians the world over to move up a gear (well, several gears).<\/p>\n<p>These shocks will come, and from the perspective of our long-term prospects, they need to come as rapidly as possible. And to be as traumatic as possible &#8211; otherwise, politicians and their electorates will rapidly revert to the current mix of non-specific anxiety and inertia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathonporritt.com\/pages\/2009\/10\/leaders_will_be_shocked_into_c.html\">Leaders will be shocked into climate action<\/a> by Jonathon Porritt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even today&#8217;s climate optimists acknowledge that there are going to have to be some traumatic &#8216;shocks to the system&#8217;, induced by accelerated climate change, to jolt politicians the world over to move up a gear (well, several gears). These shocks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/31\/1264\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organising","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}