{"id":12576,"date":"2018-08-24T04:29:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T04:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12576"},"modified":"2018-08-24T04:29:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T04:29:51","slug":"opinion-why-not-wreck-the-planet-it-could-save-your-political-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12576","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Why not wreck the planet? It could save your political skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>There is a certain mindset in politics, present the world over and across the political spectrum, which distrusts expertise. That mindset is presently revealing itself in Australia, where this week a small group of conservative-minded members of parliament held the prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/20\/australia\/turnbull-drops-energy-policy-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Malcolm Turnbull, hostage over climate policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Turnbull&#8217;s center-right Liberal party had pledged to reduce emissions from Australia&#8217;s energy companies more than a quarter (from 2005 levels) by 2030, a key part of its efforts to meet its international obligations. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But several of his own MPs, led by his predecessor as prime minister and long-term rival Tony Abbott, forced him into a climbdown by threatening to vote against the legislation. Turnbull&#8217;s government barely has a majority in the House of Representatives, and losing such a key vote could have led to a leadership challenge. Cowed, he dropped the pledge, and on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2018\/08\/20\/australia\/australian-politics-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">narrowly survived the revolt. <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)There is a certain mindset in politics, present the world over and across the political spectrum, which distrusts expertise. That mindset is presently revealing itself in Australia, where this week a small group of conservative-minded members of parliament held the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, hostage over climate policy.Turnbull&#8217;s center-right Liberal party had pledged to reduce&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}