{"id":4312,"date":"2012-05-04T13:39:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T21:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2012-05-04T13:39:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T21:39:14","slug":"from-commondreams-org-environmentalism-has-failed-on-adopting-a-biocentric-viewpoint-david-suzuki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/04\/from-commondreams-org-environmentalism-has-failed-on-adopting-a-biocentric-viewpoint-david-suzuki\/","title":{"rendered":"(from CommonDreams.org)  &#8216;Environmentalism Has Failed: On Adopting a Biocentric Viewpoint&#8217; &#8211;David Suzuki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 In creating dedicated departments, we made the environment another special interest, like education, health and agriculture. The environment subsumes every aspect of our activities, but we failed to make the point that our lives, health and livelihoods absolutely depend on the biosphere\u2014air, water, soil, sunlight and biodiversity. Without them, we sicken and die. ..When we believe the entire world is filled with unlimited \u201cresources\u201d provided for our use, we act accordingly. This \u201canthropocentric\u201d view envisions the world revolving around us. So we create departments of forests, fisheries and oceans, and environment whose ministers are less concerned with the health and well-being of forests, fish, oceans or the environment than with resources and the economies that depend on them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TO READ THE ENTIRE STORY, CLICK THE PIC:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2012\/05\/03-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4313\" title=\"SUZUKI2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SUZUKI2-817x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SUZUKI2-817x1024.jpg 817w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SUZUKI2-239x300.jpg 239w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SUZUKI2.jpg 1062w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2012\/05\/03-3<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ ALL ZBLOG POSTS, CLICK &#8216;THE ZEPHYR&#8217; AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 In creating dedicated departments, we made the environment another special interest, like education, health and agriculture. The environment subsumes every aspect of our activities, but we failed to make the point that our lives, health and livelihoods absolutely depend on the biosphere\u2014air, water, soil, sunlight and biodiversity. Without them, we sicken and die. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}