{"id":5008,"date":"2015-12-04T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2022-09-27T21:04:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T21:04:39","slug":"better-to-do-good-than-spend-on-try-to-look-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?p=5008","title":{"rendered":"Better to do good than spend on try to look good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contribution to Oxfordshire Community Foundation\u2019s annual debate<!--more-->, The Oxford Union, Oxford, November 10th 2015:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"audioBoom player\" src=\"\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/boos\/3822159-better-to-do-good-than-spend-on-try-to-look-good\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAADk6S1ZPUjoA\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full debate about <em>Looking good vs doing good<\/em> here:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"audioBoom player\" src=\"\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/boos\/3822087-looking-good-vs-doing-good\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAAC06S1YHUjoA\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>Extract from an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/14030820.Doing_good_voted_better_than_paying_to_look_good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oxford Mail article<\/a> about the debate:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Doing good voted better than paying to look good <\/strong><br \/>\nA PACKED audience at the Oxford Union voted against the idea that spending money on looking good was more important than doing good.<br \/>\nThe debate on Tuesday was organised by the Oxfordshire Community Foundation (OCF), which connects local charities with businesses looking for a cause to sponsor.<br \/>\nThe 380-strong audience listened to a mixture of arguments from six high-profile speakers before casting their vote.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nMr Dorling, also a professor of geography at Oxford University, said people overspending to improve self-image had \u201cescalated to a point where we need to control it again, and think about how we could use that money in better ways. A quarter of children in this city are living in poverty\u201d.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/14030820.Doing_good_voted_better_than_paying_to_look_good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contribution to Oxfordshire Community Foundation\u2019s annual debate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9455,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions\/9455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}