{"id":38979,"date":"2025-01-23T11:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=38979"},"modified":"2025-01-23T11:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:41:11","slug":"the-deadly-trade-in-oil-and-gas-lecture-by-bill-mckibben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/the-deadly-trade-in-oil-and-gas-lecture-by-bill-mckibben\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deadly Trade in Oil and Gas &#8211; Lecture by Bill McKibben"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Deadly Trade in Oil and Gas - Lecture by Bill McKibben\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZB2QrwtBsIc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>UC Berkeley  \u2022 Oct 5, 2024 This is a Weinstock Lecture on the Morals of Trade Oil and gas are the most traded commodities on the planet; they are also the chief causes of the most grievous harm our species has yet faced, the burgeoning climate crisis. This lecture will examine how the export of hydrocarbons, in particular, has become an enormous threat to efforts to rein in greenhouse gasses, and it will examine in particular the role that America\u2013the world\u2019s biggest exporter of gas\u2013plays in this ongoing catastrophe. And it will examine the role that non-tradeable commodities\u2013sunshine and wind\u2013might play in easing this crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UC Berkeley \u2022 Oct 5, 2024 This is a Weinstock Lecture on the Morals of Trade Oil and gas are the most traded commodities on the planet; they are also the chief causes of the most grievous harm our species has yet faced, the burgeoning climate crisis. This lecture will&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/the-deadly-trade-in-oil-and-gas-lecture-by-bill-mckibben\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38980,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38979\/revisions\/38980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}