{"id":5770,"date":"2012-08-03T06:25:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T14:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=5770"},"modified":"2012-08-03T06:25:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T14:25:22","slug":"from-the-guardian-the-new-environmentalism-where-men-must-act-as-gods-to-save-the-planet-paul-kingsnorth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/03\/from-the-guardian-the-new-environmentalism-where-men-must-act-as-gods-to-save-the-planet-paul-kingsnorth\/","title":{"rendered":"(from the Guardian)  &#8216;The new environmentalism: where men must act &#8216;as gods&#8217; to save the planet | Paul Kingsnorth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0<\/strong> Neo-environmentalism is a progressive, business-friendly, postmodern take on the environmental dilemma. It dismisses traditional green thinking, with its emphasis on limits and transforming societal values, as naive. New technologies, global capitalism and western-style development are not the problem but the solution. The future lies in enthusiastically embracing biotechnology, synthetic biology, nuclear power, nanotechnology, geo-engineering and anything else new and complex that annoys Greenpeace&#8230;.According to the neogreens, growth has no limits. We are, in the words of their spiritual leader, <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/longnow.org\/people\/board\/sb1\/\">Stewart Brand<\/a>, &#8220;as gods&#8221;, and must accept our responsibility to manage the planet rationally through powerful technologies guided by science.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TO READ THE ENTIRE STORY, CLICK HE IMAGE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5771\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/theguardian\/commentisfree\/2012\/aug\/01\/neogreens-science-business-save-planet\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5771\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5771\" title=\"paulkingsworth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/paulkingsworth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Kingsnorth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ ALL ZBLOG POSTS <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE AUG\/SEP Z <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0 Neo-environmentalism is a progressive, business-friendly, postmodern take on the environmental dilemma. It dismisses traditional green thinking, with its emphasis on limits and transforming societal values, as naive. New technologies, global capitalism and western-style development are not the problem but the solution. The future lies in enthusiastically embracing biotechnology, synthetic biology, nuclear power, nanotechnology, [&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-5770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770","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=5770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5773,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}