{"id":7107,"date":"2010-01-17T17:47:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T22:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7107"},"modified":"2010-01-17T17:47:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T22:47:21","slug":"a-post-copenhagen-jeremiad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-post-copenhagen-jeremiad\/","title":{"rendered":"A Post Copenhagen Jeremiad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Moderator of the United Church of Canada has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.united-church.ca\/communications\/news\/moderator\/100117\" target=\"_blank\">this lament<\/a> on the dismal failure of the climate conference. It cheered me up immensely:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An open letter to all Canadians from the Moderator of The United Church of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>This letter was born in Copenhagen where, heartbroken, I watched the international climate talks fall apart.<\/p>\n<p>Heartbroken because it was clear to me, as it was to many of you, that the talks in Copenhagen needed to succeed, that it is no longer safe for us to go on as we have before.<\/p>\n<p>I believe this is a unique time in humanity\u2019s fretful reign on Earth, a rare moment that will have historic significance.<\/p>\n<p>And yet the Copenhagen talks failed. We have no plan to reduce deadly emissions of carbon dioxide. Emissions that are a symptom of our broken relationship with the web of life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t remember ever <em>having <\/em>a relationship with <em>the web of life <\/em> let alone breaking it; still, if I do discover it, I\u2019ll be sure to emit copiously all over it to ensure that we become disentangled at its earliest convenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moderator of the United Church of Canada has written this lament on the dismal failure of the climate conference. It cheered me up immensely: An open letter to all Canadians from the Moderator of The United Church of Canada. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-post-copenhagen-jeremiad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,319],"tags":[2156,2278],"class_list":["post-7107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warming","category-united-church","tag-global-warming","tag-united-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}