{"id":545,"date":"2017-01-04T13:04:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T13:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/?p=545"},"modified":"2017-01-04T13:12:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T13:12:42","slug":"climate-change-an-opportunity-for-weapons-manufacturers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Climate change \u2013 an opportunity for weapons manufacturers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been reading <em>This changes everything<\/em> by Naomi Klein. \u00a0Early on the author refers to a statement by the weapons manufacturer Raytheon, which caught my attention.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nExpanded business opportunities are likely to arise as consumer behaviour and needs change in response to climate change.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These opportunities include<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\ndemand for its [Raytheon&#8217;s] military products and services as security concerns may arise as results of droughts, floods, and storm events occur as a result of climate change.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the disastrous effects of climate change sink in, Raytheon will be there to supply us with weapons to kill each other.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been reading This changes everything by Naomi Klein. \u00a0Early on the author refers to a statement by the weapons manufacturer Raytheon, which caught my attention. Expanded business opportunities are likely to arise as consumer behaviour and needs change in response to climate change. These opportunities include demand for its [Raytheon&#8217;s] military products and [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}