{"id":5989,"date":"2014-04-16T07:22:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T07:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=5989"},"modified":"2014-04-16T08:56:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T08:56:41","slug":"new-environmentalism-and-the-circular-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/04\/16\/new-environmentalism-and-the-circular-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"New environmentalism and the circular economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I watched EU Environment Commissioner\u00a0Janez Potocnik give a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_4iW5-oAefw\">presentation<\/a> on TEDx.\u00a0 He was supposed to be talking about \u201cNew environmentalism and the circular economy\u201d \u2013 but he didn\u2019t. \u00a0The talk was full of scary data, mostly around population, and the whole thing was so dull. \u00a0I struggled through to the end to the point when he began to take his clothes off, then I switched off, fearing that TEDx was getting into porn.\u00a0 His main argument was openly self-serving: that business needs regulators like football needs referees, and hence (surprise surprise) that EU commissioners (as \u00fcber-regulators) do a really fine job. \u00a0He said that Commissioners\u00a0are much more responsible chaps than the here today and gone tomorrow politicians we actually elect.\u00a0 Quite disgraceful \u2013 what is TEDx up to giving folk like this a platform?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I'm still waiting to hear about the circular economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I watched EU Environment Commissioner\u00a0Janez Potocnik give a presentation on TEDx.\u00a0 He was supposed to be talking about \u201cNew environmentalism and the circular economy\u201d \u2013 but he didn\u2019t. \u00a0The talk was full of scary data, mostly around...<\/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":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989","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=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}