{"id":1355,"date":"2014-11-10T09:55:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T14:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2014-11-10T09:55:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T14:55:34","slug":"25th-anniversary-thatcher-tells-un-markets-must-face-limits-to-prevent-climate-change-desmog-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"25th Anniversary: Thatcher Tells UN Markets Must Face Limits to Prevent Climate Change | DeSmog UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/desmog.uk\/2014\/11\/07\/25-years-thatcher-s-death-spiral-lawson-would-undermine-legacy\">25th Anniversary: Thatcher Tells UN Markets Must Face Limits to Prevent Climate Change | DeSmog UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">Margaret Thatcher was at the height of her premiership when she took to the podium at the United Nations general assembly on the global environment held at the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"font-size: 0.9em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">UN<\/span>\u00a0building in New York on 8 November\u00a01989.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">Margaret Thatcher took to the stage at the United Nations and outlines her mission to save the world: \u201cIt is life itself &#8211; human life, the innumerable species of our planet &#8211; that we wantonly destroy. It is life itself that we must battle to preserve,\u201d she told the world&#8217;s political\u00a0leaders.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">\u201cIt is mankind and his activities which are changing the environment of our planet in damaging and dangerous\u00a0ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">The darling of the free market would directly address the apparent conflict between ecological conservation and economic growth: \u201cWe must have continued economic growth in order to generate the wealth required to pay for the protection of the environment.\u00a0<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">But it must be growth which does not plunder the planet today and leave our children to deal with the consequences\u00a0tomorrow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25th Anniversary: Thatcher Tells UN Markets Must Face Limits to Prevent Climate Change | DeSmog UK. &nbsp; Margaret Thatcher was at the height of her premiership when she took to the podium at the United Nations general assembly on the global environment held at the\u00a0UN\u00a0building in New York on 8 November\u00a01989. Margaret Thatcher took to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,271,1006],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-environment-2","tag-margaret-thatcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}