{"id":4587,"date":"2012-05-28T12:11:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T20:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=4587"},"modified":"2012-05-29T15:38:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T23:38:47","slug":"from-hcnwriters-on-the-range-2005-can-billionaire-philanthropy-save-the-earth-gary-wockner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/28\/from-hcnwriters-on-the-range-2005-can-billionaire-philanthropy-save-the-earth-gary-wockner\/","title":{"rendered":"(From HCN\/Writers on the Range 2005)  &#8216;Can Billionaire Philanthropy Save The Earth?&#8217;  &#8212; Gary Wockner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 My personal opinion, I told my friend, is that its not environmentalism that\u2019s dead, but rather labor and justice. There\u2019s just no future in regular work; the future is in capital, connections to it, and then wielding that power eco-accordingly. I said point-blank: \u201cBillionaire philanthropy is the only thing that can save the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the argument makes sense. Our national and international economic systems increasingly support massive aggregations of wealth. And now, it is mainly by the benevolence of a small portion of all those millionaires and billionaires that most environmental foundations and organizations stay funded. Think Rockefeller, Hewlett, Ford, and of course, Ted Turner. And now, Wal-Mart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE ENTIRE ESSAY, CLICK THE WAL-MART LOGO.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/garywockner.home.comcast.net\/~garywockner\/HCN-writers4.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4588\" title=\"walmart-live-better\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/walmart-live-better.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/walmart-live-better.gif 400w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/walmart-live-better-300x225.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My personal opinion, I told my friend, is that its not environmentalism that\u2019s dead, but rather labor and justice. There\u2019s just no future in regular work; the future is in capital, connections to it, and then wielding that power eco-accordingly. I said point-blank: \u201cBillionaire philanthropy is the only thing that can save the [&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-4587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587","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=4587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4597,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions\/4597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}