{"id":7992,"date":"2021-10-31T08:57:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T08:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7992"},"modified":"2021-10-31T08:57:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T08:57:20","slug":"dinosaurs-at-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2021\/10\/31\/dinosaurs-at-the-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaurs at the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's a link to a <a href=\"https:\/\/dontchooseextinction.com\/en\/\">video<\/a> produced by UNDP ahead of COP26. \u00a0In it, a T-Rex lookalike addresses the UN General Assembly on the need for action on the climate. \u00a0As T-Rexs go, its behaviour is quite restrained, though why it has an American accent is beyond me.<\/p>\n<p>The message, however, is not without problem; essentially it's that extinction of the human species is not something to wish upon ourselves. \u00a0But this is nonsense; extinction of humanity is not on the cards if COP 26 is a failure. \u00a0This is the same message peddled recently by those announcing that they'll not be having children. \u00a0It also chimes in with the unhelpful \"Panic!\" <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2019\/01\/our-house-is-on-fire-16-year-old-greta-thunberg-speaks-truth-to-power\">instruction<\/a> from Greta T and her groupies.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the video has \"great production values\" and is undoubtedly entertaining. \u00a0Surely a touch irresponsible though especially with so many susceptible to eco-anxiety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here's a link to a video produced by UNDP ahead of COP26. \u00a0In it, a T-Rex lookalike addresses the UN General Assembly on the need for action on the climate. \u00a0As T-Rexs go, its behaviour is quite restrained, though why...<\/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-7992","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\/7992","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=7992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}