{"id":392,"date":"2011-01-01T13:54:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T12:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=392"},"modified":"2011-01-01T13:54:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T12:54:59","slug":"carbon-neutralism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/01\/01\/carbon-neutralism\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Neutralism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year. \u00a0I've been reading one of my Christmas presents: The Economist's <em><a href=\"http:\/\/eu.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-1846682983.html\">Book of Isms<\/a><\/em> by John Andrews. \u00a0From Abolutionism to Zoomorphism, and beyond, this casts an informative eye on 400+ of these constructs. \u00a0Carbon neutralism isn't in the book, but perhaps it should have been. \u00a0It might be defined as a tendency to think that if you spend a small bit of extra money, giving it to some pious-sounding outfit that promises the Earth, \u00a0you can pretend that you never really generated all that CO2 in the first place, and carry on regardless.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I thought I'd made <em>carbon neutralism<\/em> up, but this isn't <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.toucharcade.com\/showthread.php?t=68531\">so<\/a>. \u00a0Damn \u2013 a bad start to 2011! \u00a0 I was moved to this (would-be) neologism by looking at the Sydney New Year Fireworks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au\/nye\/About\/Green.asp\">website<\/a> which is full of direct moral instruction about travel, drinking, smoking, eating, etc. \u00a0The company that makes the fireworks (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fotifireworks.com.au\/\">Foti<\/a> \u2013 is also CN, it seems, although their website keeps pretty quiet about this). \u00a0Director, Fortunato Foti even claims that they\u00a0use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneymedia.com.au\/html\/4467-sydney-new-years-eve-making-a-mark-without-lasting-impressions-on-the-environment.asp\">biodegradable paper<\/a>. \u00a0Well, there you go. \u00a0As I said: Happy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year. \u00a0I've been reading one of my Christmas presents: The Economist's Book of Isms by John Andrews. \u00a0From Abolutionism to Zoomorphism, and beyond, this casts an informative eye on 400+ of these constructs. \u00a0Carbon neutralism isn't in the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}