{"id":18894,"date":"2022-09-01T12:37:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T10:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=18894"},"modified":"2022-09-01T12:48:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T10:48:54","slug":"18894","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=18894","title":{"rendered":"Despair is useless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/aug\/30\/mike-davis-california-writer-interview-activism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Davis, Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But we\u2019ve passed the tipping points in so many ways, and we\u2019re doing so many of the wrong things. It\u2019s not just global warming, and drought, it\u2019s the fact that <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">two-thirds<\/span> of the new homes built in the American west are in high fire-hazard areas, and the Democrats refuse to talk about a moratorium on construction or even rolling back construction in the urban-wildlife interface. It\u2019s easier for politicians to say they\u2019re supporting electric vehicles.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sustainable-business\/2016\/aug\/20\/greenwashing-environmentalism-lies-companies\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Greenwashing<\/a>\u00a0has reached a disgusting extent. Our ruling classes everywhere have no rational analysis or explanation for the immediate future. A small group of people have more concentrated power over the human future than ever before in human history, and they have no vision, no strategy, no plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t expect to die at a very heroic moment. It\u2019d be nice to die in 1968, or with the liberation of Europe in 1945. You\u2019re on the barricades in 1917, 1919. Go out of life with the red flags flying. But despair is useless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Davis, Guardian: But we\u2019ve passed the tipping points in so many ways, and we\u2019re doing so many of the wrong things. It\u2019s not just global warming, and drought, it\u2019s the fact that two-thirds of the new homes built in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=18894\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}