{"id":250,"date":"2020-05-02T14:36:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T14:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2020-05-02T14:36:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T14:36:51","slug":"a-proper-environmentalism-focused-on-human-flourishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/02\/a-proper-environmentalism-focused-on-human-flourishing\/","title":{"rendered":"A proper environmentalism focused on human flourishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pigweed and Crowhill drink and review Pigweed&#8217;s Imperial Amber Ale while they listen to a new performance by the Ben Franklin Players. Then they discuss Earth Day and environmentalism. <\/p>\n<p>People today believe the world is bad and getting worse. But if you measure the planet by its ability to promote human flourishing, Earth is getting better all the time. We should be very happy about that! But instead, people think there&#8217;s some awful crisis going on. <\/p>\n<p>The engine for all this prosperity is energy, and practically speaking, that means fossil fuels. Or, to put it simply, more fossil fuel use means more human flourishing. It means fewer people in grinding poverty. <\/p>\n<p>Humans should care for the environment so they can promote a better life for humans. That should be the focus of our environmentalism. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/14249885\/height\/360\/theme\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pigweed and Crowhill drink and review Pigweed&#8217;s Imperial Amber Ale while they listen to a new performance by the Ben Franklin Players. Then they discuss Earth Day and environmentalism. People today believe the world is bad and getting worse. But if you measure the planet by its ability to promote human flourishing, Earth is getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/02\/a-proper-environmentalism-focused-on-human-flourishing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A proper environmentalism focused on human flourishing&#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-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}