{"id":1505,"date":"2010-06-04T10:13:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2010-06-04T10:13:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:13:21","slug":"month-6-day-4-time-for-an-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-6-day-4-time-for-an-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 6, Day 4: Time For An Intervention?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Herald ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/us_politics\/view\/20100603president_obama_makes_example_of_gulf_oil_spill_woes\/\">an AP story<\/a> on Obama&#8217;s recent words about our national addiction to oil.  My response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama is correct.  America&#8217;s behavior when faced with the fact of our national dependence on oil is that of an addict confronting unpleasant truths.  <strong>Fact: <\/strong>burning oil adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.  <strong>Fact:<\/strong> BP (and other oil companies as well) are demonstrably incompetent when it comes to disaster response.   <strong>Fact:<\/strong> sooner or later, we will have burned all the oil there is to burn.  <strong>Fact:<\/strong> thousands of smaller spills all over the world have devastated local communities and ecosystems.  <strong>Fact:<\/strong> much of our oil comes from countries that (to put it mildly) don&#8217;t have America&#8217;s best interests at heart.  Each of these truths is a good reason for a huge national initiative to shift us off oil within the decade.  Taken together, they are irrefutable, yet it seems that the country that gave us <em>&#8220;a giant leap for mankind&#8221;<\/em> has become the country of <em>&#8220;we can&#8217;t do it \u2014 it&#8217;s too hard.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Herald ran an AP story on Obama&#8217;s recent words about our national addiction to oil. My response: President Obama is correct. America&#8217;s behavior when faced with the fact of our national dependence on oil is that of an addict confronting unpleasant truths. Fact: burning oil adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Fact: BP [&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":[496,164,495],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-addiction","tag-boston-herald","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","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=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}