{"id":2405,"date":"2010-12-09T20:32:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T00:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2010-12-09T20:36:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T00:36:36","slug":"month-12-day-10-only-you-can-prevent-etc-etc-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-12-day-10-only-you-can-prevent-etc-etc-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 12, Day 10: Only YOU Can Prevent, etc., etc., etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is burning, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/breaking-news-world\/israeli-forest-fire-sign-of-climate-change-study-20101210-18rmn.html\">reports the Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>.  And (of course) it&#8217;s because of climate change \u2014 arguably the largest tossed-away cigarette to trigger a forest fire in humanity&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The news accumulates daily, reinforcing a sobering message: climate change is not something that will affect the lives of our grandchildren, but a real-time emergency.  Israel&#8217;s spreading forest fires are one among multiple symptoms of our planetary fever.   Our survival depends on two things: we must learn to think in longer spans of time (for when the lag between climatic cause and climatic effect is measured in decades, where will a politician find the courage to do what is right?), and we must learn to think beyond national boundaries.  In Cancun, the world&#8217;s nation&#8217;s are negotiating; the richest are reluctant to surrender their privileges, while the poorest simply want to keep their land, their lives and their hopes.  A moment&#8217;s objective reflection makes it obvious: if humanity is to prosper in a post-climate-change world, an &#8220;us vs. them&#8221; mindset is an unaffordable luxury.  <\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is burning, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. And (of course) it&#8217;s because of climate change \u2014 arguably the largest tossed-away cigarette to trigger a forest fire in humanity&#8217;s history. The news accumulates daily, reinforcing a sobering message: climate change is not something that will affect the lives of our grandchildren, but a real-time emergency. [&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":[718,717,603],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-forest-fires","tag-israel","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","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=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}