{"id":2109,"date":"2010-09-19T20:53:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T00:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2010-09-19T20:53:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T00:53:59","slug":"month-9-day-20-damoclean-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-9-day-20-damoclean-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 9, Day 20: Damoclean Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/09\/18\/AR2010091803491.html\">an article on a small town in France<\/a> that is well worth reading.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The people of Saint-Gervais daily confront a very precarious situation.  Perched above their heads is a huge mass of liquid water trapped inside a slowly melting glacier.  If things get too warm, a catastrophic flood could wipe out their village with only a few moments&#8217; notice.  Adequate risk assessment and amelioration are all but impossible; nobody has ever seen a situation like this before.  The proposed solutions present problems of their own, posing almost as much risk as inaction \u2014 and many of Saint-Gervais&#8217; citizens, finding it too uncomfortable, simply deny the facts of the crisis.  It is rare to find such an elegantly eerie microcosm of our planetary condition; with the terrifying threats of global climate change looming over us, we have all become citizens of Saint-Gervais, our population \u2014 and our peril \u2014 amplified a millionfold.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post ran an article on a small town in France that is well worth reading. The people of Saint-Gervais daily confront a very precarious situation. Perched above their heads is a huge mass of liquid water trapped inside a slowly melting glacier. If things get too warm, a catastrophic flood could wipe out [&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":[292,507],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-denialism","tag-glaciers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","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=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}