{"id":24724,"date":"2011-01-22T13:11:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T13:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/01\/22\/naomi-klein-addicted-to-risk\/"},"modified":"2011-01-22T13:11:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T13:11:48","slug":"naomi-klein-addicted-to-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/22\/naomi-klein-addicted-to-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Days before this talk, journalist Naomi Klein was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the catastrophic results of BP&#8217;s risky pursuit of oil. Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new energy, new financial instruments and more &#8230; and too often, we&#8217;re left to clean up a mess afterward. Klein&#8217;s question: What&#8217;s the backup plan?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!--copy and paste--><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/NaomiKlein_2010W-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/NaomiKlein-2010W.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=1054&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=naomi_klein_addicted_to_risk;year=2011;theme=bold_predictions_stern_warnings;theme=not_business_as_usual;theme=celebrating_tedwomen;theme=new_on_ted_com;event=TEDWomen;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days before this talk, journalist Naomi Klein was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the catastrophic results of BP&#8217;s risky pursuit of oil. Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new energy, new financial instruments and more &#8230; and too often, we&#8217;re left to clean up a mess &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/22\/naomi-klein-addicted-to-risk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6qM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}