{"id":3798,"date":"2021-04-03T00:59:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T00:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2022-05-05T14:01:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:01:36","slug":"bright-green-lies-kirkus-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/bright-green-lies-kirkus-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Green Lies, Kirkus Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kirkus Review, Dec. 25, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">BRIGHT GREEN LIES<br \/>\nHOW THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT LOST ITS WAY AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT<br \/>\nBY DERRICK JENSEN &amp; LIERRE KEITH &amp; MAX WILBERT \u2027 RELEASE DATE: MARCH 16, 2021<\/p>\n<p>A critical look at the modern environmental movement and the promises of green, renewable technology.<\/p>\n<p>All technologies come laden with costs that are never factored in, including damage to the environment in producing the workings of machines and commodities. \u201cNo technology is neutral,\u201d write the authors. From that inarguable first tenet, they go on the attack. Even so-called environmentalists, they argue, are human-centered, and building things such as solar energy cells and wind towers are ineffective stopgaps meant to maintain wealthy lifestyles with minimum inconvenience. The real object of saving the world should be\u2026saving the world\u2014the spotted owls, the fish, the \u201clast scrap of forest,\u201d etc.<\/p>\n<p>Full Review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/derrick-jensen\/bright-green-lies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightgreenlies.com\/film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Upcoming film release April 22.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dour assessment of the current state of green technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":3799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}