{"id":1382,"date":"2010-05-09T23:49:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T03:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2010-05-09T23:50:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T03:50:03","slug":"month-5-day-10-la-la-la-la-la-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-5-day-10-la-la-la-la-la-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 5, Day 10: La La La La La La&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hadn&#8217;t written to the LA Times in quite a while, so I went over there, typed &#8220;climate change&#8221; in their search-bar, and got Michael Brune&#8217;s Op-Ed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-brune-20100509,0,1984617.story\">&#8220;A clean-energy future, now.&#8221;<\/a>  Good enough for a tweaked version of the &#8220;oil is only cheap if you&#8217;re not paying attention&#8221; letter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael Brune is exactly correct. \u00a0America must make a transition to clean energy without any further foot-dragging from the Oil and Coal lobbies. \u00a0For decades, fossil fuels have been considered both unlimited and inexpensive. \u00a0Both notions are wrong; &#8220;peak oil&#8221; demonstrates the limit to the world&#8217;s supply \u2014 and a long succession of disasters demonstrates that carbon-based energy sources are anything but cheap. \u00a0Sure, their initial cost is low, compared to renewables \u2014 but by the same token we could conclude that cigarettes are cheap, compared to food. \u00a0When a realistic cost analysis takes into account such things as long-term health and environmental effects, cleanup expenses and the catastrophic effects of global climate change, it becomes ever more obvious that fossil fuels are among the most expensive energy sources we have. \u00a0How much longer are we going to continue fooling ourselves? \u00a0<em>When will we stop <strong>burning<\/strong>, and start <strong>learning<\/strong>?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hadn&#8217;t written to the LA Times in quite a while, so I went over there, typed &#8220;climate change&#8221; in their search-bar, and got Michael Brune&#8217;s Op-Ed, &#8220;A clean-energy future, now.&#8221; Good enough for a tweaked version of the &#8220;oil is only cheap if you&#8217;re not paying attention&#8221; letter. Michael Brune is exactly correct. \u00a0America must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[308,463],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-la-times","tag-michael-brune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}