{"id":2288,"date":"2010-11-12T23:03:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T03:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2010-11-12T23:04:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T03:04:03","slug":"month-11-day-13-the-millers-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-11-day-13-the-millers-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 11, Day 13: The Millers&#8217; Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Times reports on Nathan Miller, a guy in California who wants to set up a windmill in his backyard.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/12\/us\/12bcwindmill.html?ref=todayspaper\">Naturally his neighbors object.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we are to survive the turbulence of the coming centuries with our civilization intact, we must, as Nathan Miller says, &#8220;change our idea of what&#8217;s aesthetically pleasing.&#8221;  His neighbors&#8217; objections to his plans for a windmill will seem increasingly petty as climate change&#8217;s effects begin to disrupt our cosseted existence.  A choking pall of smoke from a burning forest, blotting out the sun for weeks on end; a sudden flash flood that renders several thousand people homeless; a few hundred thousand acres of cropland dessicated by drought; a nation submerged by rising seas and its population dispersed \u2014 all these are uglier by far than a thirty-five foot tower.  While a single such project cannot solve the problem of climate change, it&#8217;ll never happen without thousands upon thousands of idiosyncratic local solutions to local problems.  A backyard wind turbine will soon be a thing of beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times reports on Nathan Miller, a guy in California who wants to set up a windmill in his backyard. Naturally his neighbors object. If we are to survive the turbulence of the coming centuries with our civilization intact, we must, as Nathan Miller says, &#8220;change our idea of what&#8217;s aesthetically pleasing.&#8221; His neighbors&#8217; objections [&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":[691,689,690],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-local-solutions","tag-nimby","tag-wind-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","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=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}