{"id":64369,"date":"2022-12-05T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64369"},"modified":"2022-12-05T08:03:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:03:18","slug":"george-monbiots-multi-level-marketing-of-ecomodernism-the-meta-blog-no-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64369","title":{"rendered":"\u2018George Monbiot\u2019s Multi-Level Marketing of Ecomodernism\u2019 \u2013 The Meta-Blog, no.24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u2018George Monbiot\u2019s Multi-Level Marketing of Ecomodernism\u2019 \u2013 The Meta-Blog, no.24\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bZks2Jwsw2U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"title\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">\n<h3 class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bZks2Jwsw2U\">\u2018George Monbiot\u2019s Multi-Level Marketing of Ecomodernism\u2019 \u2013 The Meta-Blog, no.24<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bottom-row\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">\n<div id=\"description\" class=\"item style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">\n<div id=\"description-inner\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\"><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> The environmental debate in Britain is maintained by a few unaccountable figures elevated to the role of eco-gate-keepers \u2013 which is why the ecological debate fails to make any real progress. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\"><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">To be clear, this isn\u2019t just about George Monbiot specifically. Using George\u2019s recent book, \u2018Regenesis\u2019, and his column in <\/span><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">The Guardian, this video\/blog is a necessarily long and detailed deep dive into the role \u2018green pundits\u2019 have in the ecological debate \u2013 and whether that role is truly representative given the available evidence. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\"><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">When one of Britain\u2019s \u2018leading environmentalists\u2019 is saying that genetically modified bacteria in vats are better than allotments, permaculture, or integrated polyculture \u2013 while utterly downplaying the reasons for national and global hunger to support that spurious arguments \u2013 we have to question who precisely these \u2018green pundits\u2019 are working towards&#8230; and do we want to go to that destination? <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\"><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">For the extensively referenced text of this post, goto: <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbDk1cmZSUldMaXkwODR0WFVDUm1nSV9xVENmd3xBQ3Jtc0tuWmFubGVKaTM4MVJjMTNfTTV3VTNRdXVfT3JmNXp6ampaS1BLblVOeXFGTkpjazhReDZYWWtaVGlVUFBRbGRNYzhCM1ItcVpaaFhBbmo1Q2liXzZyamM1VkY5MFNaYUM4VHE0emdvbFpXTzZJS1dhQQ&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fraw.org.uk%2Fblog%2Fposts%2F024%2Findex.shtml&amp;v=bZks2Jwsw2U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.fraw.org.uk\/blog\/posts\/024&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u2018George Monbiot\u2019s Multi-Level Marketing of Ecomodernism\u2019 \u2013 The Meta-Blog, no.24 The environmental debate in Britain is maintained by a few unaccountable figures elevated to the role of eco-gate-keepers \u2013 which is why the ecological debate fails to make any real progress. To be clear, this isn\u2019t just about George Monbiot specifically. Using George\u2019s recent [&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":[4,7],"tags":[234,5303,6112,31697,32067,6917],"class_list":["post-64369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-ecology","tag-ecomoderism","tag-george-monbiot","tag-paul-mobbs","tag-ramblin-activist","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64369","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=64369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64370,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64369\/revisions\/64370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}