{"id":2177,"date":"2010-10-09T21:19:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T01:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2010-10-09T21:22:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T01:22:57","slug":"month-10-day-10-stop-making-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-10-day-10-stop-making-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 10, Day 10: Stop Making Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hindu ran a piece noting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/article821844.ece\">the current round of climate talks seems to be going nowhere<\/a>, thanks (among other things) to the intransigence of a certain world superpower.  The letter below is more of a short, polite rant; it consists of a string of rhetorical accomplishments strung together, but lacking anything in the way of a unifying message (beyond, of course, &#8220;Aaaaaaaaagh!&#8221; which is my default setting these days).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It looks increasingly likely that any meaningful action on climate change by the United States government will fall victim to the grotesque circus of election-year politics. Conservative groups are already vehemently opposed to any initiatives from the Obama administration; when this ideological rigidity is combined with a reflexive suspicion of scientific evidence and the inability of American media outlets to sensibly discuss global heating, we have assembled all the ingredients in a recipe for climatic disaster. While China may have surpassed the US in its total emissions of greenhouse gases, the true picture emerges when we compare each nation&#8217;s <em>per capita<\/em> emissions as a function of its share of world population. Ultimately, <em>all<\/em> the world&#8217;s nations are going to have to change in dramatic ways, for the apparent cheapness of fossil energy is illusory. By freely burning coal and oil, we have offered\u00a0 humanity&#8217;s future as security on a usurious loan.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hindu ran a piece noting that the current round of climate talks seems to be going nowhere, thanks (among other things) to the intransigence of a certain world superpower. The letter below is more of a short, polite rant; it consists of a string of rhetorical accomplishments strung together, but lacking anything in the [&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":[348,95],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-china","tag-ping-into-the-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","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=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}