{"id":45133,"date":"2019-05-24T08:41:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T07:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=45133"},"modified":"2019-05-24T08:41:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T07:41:41","slug":"we-have-pushed-the-world-to-its-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/05\/24\/we-have-pushed-the-world-to-its-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"We have pushed the world to its limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this picture in the Guardian this morning. Yes, that is the queue to the top of Everest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/05\/24\/we-have-pushed-the-world-to-its-limits\/screen-shot-2019-05-24-at-08-38-05\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45134\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-24-at-08.38.05-550x329.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-24-at-08.38.05-550x329.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-24-at-08.38.05-501x300.png 501w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-24-at-08.38.05-768x460.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-24-at-08.38.05-600x359.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-24-at-08.38.05.png 1726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is staggering. And it's deeply selfish. Call it neoliberal consumption gone mad, if you wish.<\/p>\n<p>And it's about as antithetical to the Green New Deal as it gets.<\/p>\n<p>We need to live in a very different world now. And this picture makes clear why. We have literally pushed the world to its limits. And it can take no more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this picture in the Guardian this morning. Yes, that is the queue to the top of Everest. This is staggering. And it&#8217;s deeply<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/05\/24\/we-have-pushed-the-world-to-its-limits\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-new-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}