{"id":1378,"date":"2021-07-02T16:17:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2021-07-02T16:17:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:17:47","slug":"wartime-mentality-and-silly-political-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/02\/wartime-mentality-and-silly-political-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wartime mentality&#8221; and silly political rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/voter_priorities.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"515\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/voter_priorities.png 310w, https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/voter_priorities-181x300.png 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 85vw, 310px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/us-envoy-kerry-says-world-needs-wartime-mentality-over-climate-2021-06-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Kerry says the world needs a &#8216;wartime mentality&#8217; over climate<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>What he means is that he wants people to treat climate change as urgently as they would treat a war. IOW, nothing is more important. <\/p>\n<p>The trouble is that tons of things are more important, and everybody knows it. The image on the right shows the things voters thought were more important than climate change for the 2020 election. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2020\/08\/13\/important-issues-in-the-2020-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>Despite all the fear mongering and hand waving, unlike war, millions of people are not in imminent danger of death from climate change. <\/p>\n<p>Declaring political wars &#8212; the war on poverty, the war on drugs, etc. &#8212; is silly. If you want us to take something seriously, make the case. Grandstanding and hyperventilating isn&#8217;t helping. <\/p>\n<p>(Not that I want us to spend all that much attention on climate change, by the way.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry says the world needs a &#8216;wartime mentality&#8217; over climate What he means is that he wants people to treat climate change as urgently as they would treat a war. IOW, nothing is more important. The trouble is that tons of things are more important, and everybody knows it. The image on the right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/02\/wartime-mentality-and-silly-political-rhetoric\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Wartime mentality&#8221; and silly political rhetoric&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}