{"id":1681,"date":"2006-11-09T12:29:42","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T12:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2006-11-09T12:29:42","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T12:29:42","slug":"the-good-the-bad-and-the-rather-satisfying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1681","title":{"rendered":"The good, the bad and the rather satisfying…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, sort of good – an interesting campaign by the Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai to plant a billion trees in the next year<\/a>. But she admits this is only symbolic – for the scarey figures are down the article: <\/p>\n

Over the past decade 130m hectares (3,235m acres) of trees have been destroyed, according to the UN. Reforesting such an area would require 140bn trees to be planted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Proving that Australia still occasionally manages to display the right instincts, in spite of so many years of John Howard, there’s been an outcry over plans to relocate a salt-water crocodile who bit a man<\/a>. Well if someone came right into your house, and went thumping around with a big stick, you might be inclined to bite him too. The tourist has been christened “stupid Stefaan”. Apparently he was also bitten by a monkey in India. Wonder why?<\/p>\n

Finally: I’m not gloating – well only a little – but Tim Hames has been eating his column<\/a> – in line with a vow – after, and it now seems pretty certain, the US Republicans lost the Senate as well as the Reps.<\/p>\n

But as a recent discussion I heard on this subject went: a brief yippee was quickly drowned by a flood of explanation as to why US military aggression was structural and wouldn’t really change with the politicians.<\/p>\n

Still, I think a small “yippee” should be allowed – always nice when the human race on masse displays a bit of sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, sort of good – an interesting campaign by the Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai to plant a billion trees in the next year. But she admits this is only symbolic – for the scarey figures are down the article: Over the past decade 130m hectares (3,235m acres) of trees have been destroyed, according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-politics","category-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}