{"id":41467,"date":"2022-11-03T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T04:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41467"},"modified":"2022-11-03T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T04:45:10","slug":"un-and-wef-running-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41467","title":{"rendered":"UN and WEF Running Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-41468\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/UN_and_WEF_Running_Oz-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"UN and WEF Running Oz\" width=\"710\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/UN_and_WEF_Running_Oz-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/UN_and_WEF_Running_Oz.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-41469\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Container_Ship-300x169.png\" alt=\"Container Ship\" width=\"602\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Container_Ship-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Container_Ship.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-41470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Cruise_Ship-300x155.png\" alt=\"Cruise Ship\" width=\"586\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Cruise_Ship-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Cruise_Ship.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-41471\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/David_Ballamy_Quote_Global_Warming-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"David Ballamy Quote Global Warming\" width=\"587\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/David_Ballamy_Quote_Global_Warming-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/David_Ballamy_Quote_Global_Warming-768x361.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/David_Ballamy_Quote_Global_Warming.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A world of crazy people<br \/>\nGo electric, sort your trash, put on a sweater and heat up to 19\u00b0, streamline your miles, walk for the climate&#8230;&#8230;. .<\/p>\n<p>Why do we have to &#8220;always be the only ones&#8221; saving for community while:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Olympic Winter Games were held in Beijing on artificial snow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In France, ski resorts light up slopes until midnight so that &#8220;late risers&#8221; can ski at night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Lufthansa performs 8,000 &#8220;empty&#8221; flights to keep its slots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Most of the great football matches take place in the evening under the mega spotlights that consume everything!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The 8 new and gigantic football stadiums called to host the World Cup in Qatar are air-conditioned ( in a desert! )<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Hundreds of lorries drive around to bring us fruit and vegetables from Spain while regional products go to the trash or run over by bulldozers<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The world&#8217;s largest ship: Wonder of the Seas will carry 7000 passengers, 2300 crew members and circle the seas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; About 3500 container carriers circulate in the world and each consume 28,000 liters of fuel per 1000 km.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Billionaires offer themselves space travel under &#8220;astronomical&#8221; conditions<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; And&#8230; Meanwhile, &#8220;FOR THE SAKE OF THE ECOLOGY&#8221; we&#8217;re going to prohibit driving a slightly old diesel or petrol car for people who can&#8217;t afford to change cars and who have to use it to go to work and allow the rich to roll in a Ferrari&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Who are we kidding!<\/p>\n<p>And for some more pithy gems from David:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/author\/30827-David_Bellamy\">https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/author\/30827-David_Bellamy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A world of crazy people Go electric, sort your trash, put on a sweater and heat up to 19\u00b0, streamline your miles, walk for the climate&#8230;&#8230;. . Why do we have to &#8220;always be the only ones&#8221; saving for community while: &#8211; The Olympic Winter Games were held in Beijing on artificial snow. &#8211; In &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41467\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UN and WEF Running Oz&#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":[132,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41467","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=41467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41472,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41467\/revisions\/41472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}