{"id":119,"date":"2005-06-20T20:31:27","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T10:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=119"},"modified":"2005-06-20T20:31:27","modified_gmt":"2005-06-20T10:31:27","slug":"social-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/archives\/2005\/06\/20\/social-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventurejournalist.com\/notebook\/archives\/001751.html\">entry<\/a> on Tonya&#8217;s site, and having a chat with my good friend (pommie_al), I have decided to write up some things that have been nagging me for a while.  Our continuing drive to growth, wealth creation, corporate and private greed is going to be the undoing off our society.  However I am getting ahead of myself and I do want to express this argument logically.<\/p>\n<p>Currently we see several issues that are effecting our society and I hope to engage in meaningful discussion about them over the next few posts.  Now I understand that some of the stuff we will post will be controversial and we are going to be trying to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153solve the worlds problems\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<ul>\nSome of the topics we will cover include:<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peakoil.net\/\">Peak Oil<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Globalisation\">Globalization <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Corporate Greed <\/li>\n<li>Personal Greed<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poverty\">Poverty <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Social responsibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OK I know that this is a little heavier than you usually see on my site, but things are starting to annoy me and I think it is about time I stood up and gave an opinion, or at least point to opinions I agree with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading an entry on Tonya&#8217;s site, and having a chat with my good friend (pommie_al), I have decided to write up some things that have been nagging me for a while. Our continuing drive to growth, wealth creation, corporate and private greed is going to be the undoing off our society. However I am &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/archives\/2005\/06\/20\/social-comment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Social Comment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Opinions","category-social-comment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}