{"id":859,"date":"2004-04-14T15:15:11","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T19:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/what_our_allies_are_saying\/"},"modified":"2004-04-14T15:15:11","modified_gmt":"2004-04-14T19:15:11","slug":"what_our_allies_are_saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/what_our_allies_are_saying\/","title":{"rendered":"What Our Allies Are Saying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/usa\/story\/0,12271,1191321,00.html\">Great Britain<\/a>, no less:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>George Bush has had a &#8220;devastating impact&#8221; on global sustainable development and set the world back more than ten years, says Jonathon Porritt, the prime minister&#8217;s senior adviser on the subject, today.<br \/>\nWriting in Guardian Society Mr Porritt, who is the chairman of the Sustainable Development Commission, says it is hard to exaggerate the damage done to the planet by Mr Bush&#8217;s drive for a &#8220;new world order&#8221;.<br \/>\nOn a whole series of issues including climate change, international aid, family planning, nuclear proliferation, trade and corporate responsibility, &#8220;staying true to a discredited model of extreme economic liberalism has set the world back a decade or more&#8221;, says Mr Porritt.<br \/>\nHe says it is not surprising that the rest of the world has done so badly because Mr Bush has given them the perfect &#8220;out&#8221; from their responsibilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/what_our_allies_are_saying\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to What Our Allies Are Saying\"><p>From Great Britain, no less: George Bush has had a &#8220;devastating impact&#8221; on global sustainable development and set the world back more than ten years, says Jonathon Porritt, the prime minister&#8217;s senior adviser on the subject, today. Writing in Guardian Society Mr Porritt, who is the chairman of the Sustainable Development Commission, says it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}