{"id":14426,"date":"2003-12-17T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/17\/michael-crichton-on-environmentalism\/"},"modified":"2003-12-17T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-17T12:30:00","slug":"michael-crichton-on-environmentalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/17\/michael-crichton-on-environmentalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Crichton On Environmentalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crichton-official.com\/speeches\/speeches_quote05.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Crichton gave an interesting speech on environmentalism<\/a> to the Commonwealth Club recently.  I&rsquo;m a little skeptical of some of his points, but I wholeheartedly agree with one of his assertions: &ldquo;Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible.  And it needs to be <i>apolitical<\/i>.&rdquo; (emphasis mine)<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-107166422693362466?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Michael Crichton gave an interesting speech on environmentalism to the Commonwealth Club recently. I&rsquo;m a little skeptical of some of his points, but I wholeheartedly agree with one of his assertions: &ldquo;Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/17\/michael-crichton-on-environmentalism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael Crichton On Environmentalism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}