{"id":1225,"date":"2022-03-19T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T15:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/?page_id=1225"},"modified":"2025-07-26T10:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:48:18","slug":"global-warming-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/global-warming-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems to me that any debate over whether or not the Climate is changing is a moot point.  Whether mankind&#8217;s actions are warming the planet or not, which by the way I believe is true, we should anyway be looking at conserving the <strong>scarce resources <\/strong>of <strong>the only planet we have<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every time I drive my car, turn on my cooker or my central heating I have done something <strong>essentially selfish<\/strong>! I have used up resources for the sake of my convenience, my comfort. Resources that won&#8217;t be there now for anyone else to use either tomorrow or next century. On top of that of course I have added some CO2 into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do though love<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y564PsKvNZs\"> Jordan Peterson&#8217;s <\/a>complete pragmatism &#8230;.. Greta has a point, but <strong>what are we going to do about it<\/strong>?  Indeed is there anything we can do about it?  Jordan suggests a <strong>counter-intuitive solution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Greta Thunberg does not understand about climate change | Jordan Peterson\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y564PsKvNZs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me that any debate over whether or not the Climate is changing is a moot point. Whether mankind&#8217;s actions are warming the planet or not, which by the way I believe is true, we should anyway be looking at conserving the scarce resources of the only planet we have! Every time I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/global-warming-climate-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Climate Change?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1143,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1225","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1225\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}