{"id":980,"date":"2009-01-19T05:04:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T09:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=980"},"modified":"2009-01-19T05:04:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T09:04:17","slug":"980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/19\/980\/","title":{"rendered":"Heathrow Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grumpy Vegan found himself in agreement with Green campaigner and author, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathonporritt.com\/pages\/2009\/01\/the_third_runway.html\">Jonathan Porritt<\/a>, on the Labour government&#8217;s decision on a third runway for London&#8217;s Heathrow airport.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yesterday&#8217;s decision on the third runway at Heathrow marks a critical turning point in UK politics: the point at which the Labour Party turned its back on the future. What makes politics so fascinating today is its bipolarity. We can&#8217;t help but live simultaneously in two worlds: one based on abundant fossil fuels, the pursuit of economic growth at almost all costs, rampant consumerism and grotesque inequality; and one based on elegant, very low-carbon, hyper-efficient lifestyles, in a fairer, less frenetic, genuinely sustainable world. The longer we hang on to the first world, the harder it gets to make the transition to the second &#8211; and if we can&#8217;t make that transition, we&#8217;re stuffed. Persisting with the first world means the death of everything we hold dear. Horribly soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grumpy Vegan found himself in agreement with Green campaigner and author, Jonathan Porritt, on the Labour government&#8217;s decision on a third runway for London&#8217;s Heathrow airport. Yesterday&#8217;s decision on the third runway at Heathrow marks a critical turning point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/19\/980\/\">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":[8],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-grumpy-vegan-life","tag-grumpy-vegan-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","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=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}