{"id":7808,"date":"2010-03-16T22:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T02:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2010-03-16T22:30:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T02:30:13","slug":"being-green-makes-you-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/being-green-makes-you-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Being green makes you mean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Says the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/mar\/15\/green-consumers-more-likely-steal\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a study, when people feel they have been morally virtuous by saving the planet through their purchases of organic baby food, for example, it leads to the &#8220;licensing [of] selfish and morally questionable behaviour&#8221;, otherwise known as &#8220;moral balancing&#8221; or &#8220;compensatory ethics&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This goes go a long way to explain the behaviour of the Anglican Church of Canada, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/pwrdf.org\/stories\/all-stories\/stories\/?no_cache=1&amp;tx_ttnews[tt_news]=728\" target=\"_blank\">very keen on green<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says the Guardian According to a study, when people feel they have been morally virtuous by saving the planet through their purchases of organic baby food, for example, it leads to the &#8220;licensing [of] selfish and morally questionable behaviour&#8221;, otherwise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/being-green-makes-you-mean\/\">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":[16],"tags":[2032,2156],"class_list":["post-7808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808","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=7808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}