{"id":70121,"date":"2018-12-05T14:50:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T13:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/05\/in-the-face-of-climate-change-ranking-states-by-prosperity-invites-disaster\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T13:50:23","slug":"in-the-face-of-climate-change-ranking-states-by-prosperity-invites-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=70121","title":{"rendered":"In the face of climate change, ranking states by prosperity invites disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget neocolonial indices that put wealthy countries ahead of poor ones on the path to development, we\u2019re all in this togetherIf you were asked to name the most prosperous countries in the world, you\u2019d probably reach for a familiar list. It would start with the Scandinavian social democracies, the Netherlands or Switzerland, meander across to Canada, and end up somewhere between Australia and New Zealand.Such a thought process would be completely valid. These nations regularly feature at or near the top of the growing number of prosperity \u201cleague tables\u201d that aim to tell us who\u2019s getting it right for their citizens. Without doubt, these places are better than most at providing foundations for a good life for the majority of fortunate inhabitants. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2018\/dec\/05\/climate-change-ranking-prosperity-invites-disaster-henrietta-moore-ucl\" target=\"_blank\">In the face of climate change, ranking states by prosperity invites disaster<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget neocolonial indices that put wealthy countries ahead of poor ones on the path to development, we\u2019re all in this togetherIf you were asked to name the most prosperous countries in the world, you\u2019d probably reach for a familiar list. It would start with the Scandinavian social democracies, the Netherlands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}