{"id":6140,"date":"2014-10-27T07:35:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T07:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6140"},"modified":"2014-10-27T07:35:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T07:35:23","slug":"techno-utopianism-and-the-fate-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/10\/27\/techno-utopianism-and-the-fate-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Techno-Utopianism and the Fate of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are reading this, you probably missed the coming together of the world's leading miserabilists in New York at the\u00a0weekend. \u00a0Never, mind, think of all the carbon the world saved by your not going, and\u00a0the tedium you were spared. \u00a0Here's the <a href=\"http:\/\/ifg.org\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ifg_program_FINAL-2.pdf\">programme<\/a>, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>And here's\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marklynas.org\/2014\/10\/anti-technologists-descend-on-new-york-city-by-plane-and-car\/#more-1381\">Mark Lynas<\/a> on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"... the rank hypocrisy of well-fed intellectuals flying in from all over the world to bemoan the march of technology. \u00a0I mean, where do even you start on all the ironies? \u00a0The fact that it\u2019s promoted on the web? \u00a0That no-one is coming by horse? \u00a0That Vandana Shiva might have missed the party had she had to row over from India in a canoe? \u00a0That electricity will no doubt be an essential part of the logistics of the proceedings? ...\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It reminds be of a bloke I saw on South African TV during the 2002 Earth Summit. \u00a0He'd flown down to Jo'burg from Lagos just to bemoan the world's use of oil. \u00a0Well behind irony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are reading this, you probably missed the coming together of the world's leading miserabilists in New York at the\u00a0weekend. \u00a0Never, mind, think of all the carbon the world saved by your not going, and\u00a0the tedium you were spared....<\/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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140","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=6140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}