{"id":737,"date":"2017-02-21T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T08:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=737"},"modified":"2017-02-21T08:15:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T08:15:09","slug":"short-term-long-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"Short Term – Long Term"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are now living through that what is an interesting and highly frightening political period.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Just two words sum up many of the problems we are up against:-\u00a0Brexit and Thrump.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Yet we do need to look at what else is happening in the world, and start thinking beyond the next decade.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Here are just a few of these long term issues summed up in five headlines:-<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

‘Extraordinary’ levels of pollutants found in 10km deep Mariana trench<\/a>.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

What The New Fukushima Unit 2 Inspection May Indicate. <\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/b>U.K. nuclear safety regulations place too low a value on human\u00a0life.<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

7 million premature deaths annually linked to air pollution.<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/b>Analysis of \u201cScientists have just detected a major change to the Earth\u2019s oceans linked to a warming climate\u201d.<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What worries me is how a lot of people concentrate upon very short term issues, and think about political action[s] in a very seasonal way.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

While what is really needed is some long term day by week by month by year by decades long hard slog campaigning, and some major life style changes.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are now living through that what is an interesting and highly frightening political period. Just two words sum up many of the problems we are up against:-\u00a0Brexit and Thrump. Yet we do need to look at what else is happening in the world, and start thinking beyond the next decade. Here are just a … Continue reading Short Term – Long Term<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}