{"id":1901,"date":"2011-12-08T09:16:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T09:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2011-12-08T09:16:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T09:16:25","slug":"a-green%e2%80%a6comedian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/2011\/12\/a-green%e2%80%a6comedian\/","title":{"rendered":"A green\u2026comedian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when I thought I had seen everything \u201cgreen\u201d in Durban, I witnessed a comedy stand-up routine with climate change humor.\u00a0 Mark Sampson is a South African comedian that has dedicated his life to environmental activism and comedy.\u00a0 Originally from England, Mark has found his niche in Cape Town, South Africa as an eco-warrior, activist, and humorist.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/files\/2011\/12\/COM_Mark-Sampson-and-Truck1.jpg.638x999_q851.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1904\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/files\/2011\/12\/COM_Mark-Sampson-and-Truck1.jpg.638x999_q851.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/files\/2011\/12\/COM_Mark-Sampson-and-Truck1.jpg.638x999_q851.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/files\/2011\/12\/COM_Mark-Sampson-and-Truck1.jpg.638x999_q851-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/files\/2011\/12\/COM_Mark-Sampson-and-Truck1.jpg.638x999_q851-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was definitely a breath of fresh air to hear Mark\u2019s thoughts on climate change.\u00a0 So many aspects of the negotiations are dismal and pessimistic; it was great to laugh about climate change, for once.\u00a0 His ideas ranged from making fun of crunchy dreadlock-wearing, tofu-munching, eco-warriors (which he identified with, not too long ago), to laughing about the release of methane into the atmosphere.\u00a0 Mark Sampson spreads his laughter throughout South Africa and Europe to encourage people to find a happy medium between being an eco-warrior and driving a hummer.\u00a0 He claims that doing your part to combat climate change is simple and guilt-free.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew that global climate change could be so funny?<\/p>\n<p>Check out Mark Sampson\u2019s Facebook page: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Mark.Sampson.Comedian.SA\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Mark.Sampson.Comedian.SA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when I thought I had seen everything \u201cgreen\u201d in Durban, I witnessed a comedy stand-up routine with climate change humor.\u00a0 Mark Sampson is a South African comedian that has dedicated his life to environmental activism and comedy.\u00a0 Originally from England, Mark has found his niche in Cape Town, South Africa as an eco-warrior, activist, and humorist.<br \/>\nIt was definitely a breath of fresh air to hear Mark\u2019s thoughts on climate change.\u00a0 So many aspects of the negotiations are dismal and pessimistic; it was great to laugh about climate change, for once.\u00a0 His ideas ranged from making fun of crunchy dreadlock-wearing, tofu-munching, eco-warriors (which he identified with, not too long ago), to laughing about the release of methane into the atmosphere.\u00a0 Mark Sampson spreads his laughter throughout South Africa and Europe to encourage people to find a happy medium between being an eco-warrior and driving a hummer.\u00a0 He claims that doing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19448],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}