{"id":41516,"date":"2018-12-10T10:32:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T15:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41516"},"modified":"2018-12-10T10:32:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T15:32:55","slug":"attenborough-and-the-deluded-elites-of-katowice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41516","title":{"rendered":"Attenborough and the deluded elites of Katowice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/euanmearns.com\/attenborough-and-the-deluded-elites-of-katowice\/\">Attenborough and the deluded elites of Katowice<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9SQaoTHjGGQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/sites\/default\/files\/resource\/The%20People%27s%20Address%202.11.18_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transcript of the speech<\/a> by Sir David Attenborough COP24, Katowice, Poland<br \/>\n3rd December 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your excellencies, ladies and gentlemen.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We the peoples of the United Nations\u2019.\u00a0These are the opening words of the UN Charter.\u00a0A charter that puts people at the centre.\u00a0A pledge to give every person in the world a voice on its future.\u00a0A promise to help protect the weakest and the strongest from war, famine and other man-made disasters.\u00a0Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. Our greatest threat in thousands of years.\u00a0Climate Change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If we don\u2019t take action the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United Nations provides a unique platform that can unite the whole world. <strong>And as the Paris agreement proved, together we can make real change happen.<\/strong>\u00a0At this crucial moment, the United Nations has invited the world\u2019s people to have their voice heard, by giving them a seat.\u00a0The People\u2019s Seat;\u00a0giving everyone the opportunity to join us here today, virtually, and speak directly to you the decision makers.<\/p>\n<p>In the last two weeks, the world\u2019s people have taken part in building this address, answering polls, sending video messages and voicing their opinions.\u00a0I am only here to represent the \u2018Voice of the People\u2019: to deliver our collective thoughts, concerns, ideas and suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>This is our \u2018We the peoples\u2019 message.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026.THE PEOPLES\u2019 SEAT VIDEO SEQUENCE\u2026..<\/p>\n<p><strong>The world\u2019s people have spoken.<\/strong> Their message is clear.\u00a0Time is running out.\u00a0They want you, the decision makers, to act now. <strong>They are behind you,<\/strong>\u00a0along with civil society represented here today.\u00a0Supporting you in making tough decisions but also willing to make sacrifices in their daily lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attenborough and the deluded elites of Katowice Transcript of the speech by Sir David Attenborough COP24, Katowice, Poland 3rd December 2018. Your excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. \u2018We the peoples of the United Nations\u2019.\u00a0These are the opening words of the UN Charter.\u00a0A charter that puts people at the centre.\u00a0A pledge to give every person in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[141,23255,11260,11842,369,23344,7017],"class_list":["post-41516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-cop24","tag-energy-matters","tag-euan-mearns","tag-global-warming","tag-sir-david-attenborough","tag-species-extinction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41516","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=41516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41517,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41516\/revisions\/41517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}