{"id":656268,"date":"2022-05-16T08:47:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T08:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=243343"},"modified":"2022-05-16T08:47:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T08:47:11","slug":"should-we-trust-corporate-science-to-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/16\/should-we-trust-corporate-science-to-save-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Should We Trust Corporate Science to Save the Planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be said that politicians only pass legislation for three main reasons: To please their corporate and billionaire donors, to get re-elected, and, last and least, because a mass mobilization effort (women\u2019s suffrage, civil rights, gay rights) forces them too. Right now politicians see no need to pass real climate change legislation. Their billionaire  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/05\/16\/should-we-trust-corporate-science-to-save-the-planet\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/05\/16\/should-we-trust-corporate-science-to-save-the-planet\/\">Should We Trust Corporate Science to Save the Planet?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/05\/16\/should-we-trust-corporate-science-to-save-the-planet\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be said that politicians only pass legislation for three main reasons: To please their corporate and billionaire donors, to get re-elected, and, last and least, because a mass mobilization effort (women\u2019s suffrage, civil rights, gay rights) forc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":347,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656269,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656268\/revisions\/656269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}