{"id":37615,"date":"2022-02-28T03:44:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T16:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=37615"},"modified":"2022-02-28T03:44:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T16:44:14","slug":"on-the-great-green-wall-and-being-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=37615","title":{"rendered":"On the Great Green Wall, And Being Useful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-37616\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/The_Great_Green_Wall-300x298.png\" alt=\"The Great Green Wall\" width=\"636\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/The_Great_Green_Wall-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/The_Great_Green_Wall-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/The_Great_Green_Wall-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/The_Great_Green_Wall.png 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I argue at length in my book\u00a0<em>Climate: A New Story<\/em>, the environmental movement as a whole seriously misapprehends the nature of the present ecological crisis. The biggest threat is not CO2-induced warming\u2014that is merely the most convenient threat, the one that facilitates technocratic and financialized solutions. The biggest threat is the reduction and destruction of ecosystems: soil, oceans forests, wetlands, and so on, at all scales. Overfishing, deforestation, mining, tree farms, industrial agriculture, toxic pollution, draining wetlands, coastal development, urbanization, and electromagnetic pollution degrade the living organs of our living Earth, rendering her unable to maintain balance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/charleseisenstein.substack.com\/p\/on-the-great-green-wall-and-being\">https:\/\/charleseisenstein.substack.com\/p\/on-the-great-green-wall-and-being<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I argue at length in my book\u00a0Climate: A New Story, the environmental movement as a whole seriously misapprehends the nature of the present ecological crisis. The biggest threat is not CO2-induced warming\u2014that is merely the most convenient threat, the one that facilitates technocratic and financialized solutions. The biggest threat is the reduction and destruction &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=37615\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the Great Green Wall, And Being Useful&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37617,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37615\/revisions\/37617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}