{"id":3745,"date":"2010-02-01T16:46:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3745"},"modified":"2010-02-01T16:46:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T00:46:08","slug":"environmentalism-coopts-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/environmentalism-coopts-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmentalism coopts everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the message broadcast on Friday, Mr. bin Laden veered away from his traditional vows to inflict death and destruction on the United States, and instead discussed climate change, globalization and monetary policy in a message that he said was directed to \u201cthe whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>. . . . \u00a0He faulted the United States for failing to sign the Kyoto Protocol, which sought to curb global warming by restricting greenhouse gas emissions<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I have been waiting for Andrew to weigh in on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/30\/world\/middleeast\/30binladen.html?scp=1&amp;sq=global%20warming%20osama%20bin%20laden&amp;st=cse\">latest convert <\/a>to the warming issue, I have been enjoying snippets from the U.S. Conference of Mayors on CSPAN.\u00a0 Environmentalism has coopted black grievance as the primary urban agenda.\u00a0\u00a0 Sure, there&#8217;s plenty of urban pork involved, and anti-capitalism, too, but I&#8217;d much rather see all these big city mayors paying lip service to sustainability than railing about social justice.\u00a0 And now here is OBL, desperately trying to make himself more relevant to the global elites.\u00a0 Consumer culture may eventually be the great global unifier, but at the moment, environmentalism is running a close second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the message broadcast on Friday, Mr. bin Laden veered away from his traditional vows to inflict death and destruction on the United States, and instead discussed climate change, globalization and monetary policy in a message that he said was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/environmentalism-coopts-everything\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[455],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3748,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}