{"id":1474,"date":"2010-05-28T00:03:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T04:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2010-05-28T00:03:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T04:03:56","slug":"month-5-day-28-looking-the-other-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-5-day-28-looking-the-other-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 5, Day 28: Looking The Other Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FishOutOfWater has his usual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2010\/5\/27\/870532\/-Record-Global-Heating-Causing-Arctic-Meltdown\">mind-bendingly scary diary<\/a> at Dkos.  That motivated me to sit down, but what came out was a response to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/26\/us\/26rig.html\">New York Times article from a couple of days ago<\/a>.  It&#8217;s more in my &#8220;Oil and Coal Reward Evil, Stupidity and Irresponsibility&#8221; series.  I will write something on the Arctic, perhaps tomorrow.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We learn once again that there were warning signs of the impending disaster on the Deepwater Horizon, but that they were ignored.  This should surprise no one; the oil and coal industries have had a lot of experience ignoring the signs of impending disasters.  The siren call of quick profit drowns out the voices of caution, care and conscience, leaving our nation&#8217;s energy economy under the control of forces motivated entirely by profit, unhindered by any sense of responsibility to the greater good.  British Petroleum&#8217;s behavior has been shameful, yes \u2014 but the <em>entire fossil energy sector<\/em> has a history of rewarding shameful, callous and irresponsible behavior.  If ecocidal oil spills, coal mine explosions, and terrifying increases in world temperature levels can&#8217;t persuade us to kick our fossil fuel addiction, then we too are ignoring the signs of a planetary emergency that will make the Gulf spill seem small.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FishOutOfWater has his usual mind-bendingly scary diary at Dkos. That motivated me to sit down, but what came out was a response to a New York Times article from a couple of days ago. It&#8217;s more in my &#8220;Oil and Coal Reward Evil, Stupidity and Irresponsibility&#8221; series. I will write something on the Arctic, perhaps [&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":[465,24,444,483],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-british-petroleum","tag-climate-change","tag-deepwater-horizon","tag-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}