{"id":1482,"date":"2014-08-23T22:14:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T05:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2014-08-23T22:14:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T05:14:46","slug":"capitalism-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1482","title":{"rendered":"Capitalism and Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, capitalism unleashed the industrial era which set the stage for the unfolding catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>Second, as a system capitalism is uniquely ill-suited to addressing a problem like climate change. Reason is, its worst effects won&#8217;t happen until everyone presently alive is dead, so there is very little <em>self<\/em> interest for anyone to address the problem today. And capitalism is all about the pursuit of self-interest.<\/p>\n<p>To the contrary, what self interest there is lies in <em>denying<\/em> the existence of the problem and <em>opposing<\/em> any action intended to address it, as is illustrated by the actions of the Koch Brothers and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, capitalism unleashed the industrial era which set the stage for the unfolding catastrophe. Second, as a system capitalism is uniquely ill-suited to addressing a problem like climate change. Reason is, its worst effects won&#8217;t happen until everyone presently alive is dead, so there is very little self interest for anyone to address the problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalist-scum","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}