{"id":670,"date":"2007-09-05T10:29:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T10:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=670"},"modified":"2007-09-05T10:29:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T10:29:52","slug":"apply-to-climate-change-mutatis-mutandis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2007\/09\/05\/apply-to-climate-change-mutatis-mutandis\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply to climate change, mutatis mutandis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2007\/04\/30\/five-days-in-london-may-1940\/\">Crooked Timber<\/a> discussion of WWII and British politicians&#8217; view of the possible end of civilisation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA possibly apocryphal moment, which the ungossipy Lukacs does not treat us to, has Attlee pointing out to Greenwood that if Churchill loses to the Tory grandees civilisation in Europe will be gone, Greenwood retorting that if so, \u201cit won\u2019t be our fault\u201d and Attlee responding \u201cI don\u2019t want to go down in history as someone whose fault it wasn\u2019t when civilisation was destroyed\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Crooked Timber discussion of WWII and British politicians&#8217; view of the possible end of civilisation: A possibly apocryphal moment, which the ungossipy Lukacs does not treat us to, has Attlee pointing out to Greenwood that if Churchill loses to the Tory grandees civilisation in Europe will be gone, Greenwood retorting that if so, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-aO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}