{"id":2979,"date":"2011-03-14T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2011-03-14T00:33:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T04:33:52","slug":"year-2-month-3-day-14-coal-makes-you-stupid-so-does-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-3-day-14-coal-makes-you-stupid-so-does-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 3, Day 14: Coal Makes You Stupid (So Does Oil)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian paper, the Mackay Daily Mercury, runs an article noting, unsurprisingly, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymercury.com.au\/story\/2011\/03\/07\/climate-change-minister-greg-combet-carbon-tax\/\">Australian coal companies are opposed to a tax on carbon.<\/a>  Well, they would, wouldn&#8217;t they?  Industries are not known for taking the long view.  If corporate charters were set up to encourage century-long thinking, a lot of things might have turned out differently.<\/p>\n<p>Sent March 6:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s hardly surprising that higher-ups in Australia&#8217;s coal industry are opposed to a carbon tax.  Despite their comprehensive and lavishly-funded denial of the facts of climate change, the multinational corporations which have made enormous fortunes from our species&#8217; eagerness to consume fossil fuels are beginning to see the writing on the wall.  They&#8217;re soon going to confront the limitations of the Earth&#8217;s resources and the laws of nature; we&#8217;re going to run out of oil and coal \u2014 unless the long-term consequences of the greenhouse effect bring our species to an evolutionary bottleneck first.  The coal industry needs to be asking how to find ways to employ people once they&#8217;re no longer mining coal, not how to avoid paying taxes on carbon emissions.  The days when economic actors could easily afford to disregard climatic warning signals are long past; our addiction to cheap energy has become a very expensive habit indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian paper, the Mackay Daily Mercury, runs an article noting, unsurprisingly, that Australian coal companies are opposed to a tax on carbon. Well, they would, wouldn&#8217;t they? Industries are not known for taking the long view. If corporate charters were set up to encourage century-long thinking, a lot of things might have turned 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":[731,316,386,680],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-australia","tag-carbon-tax","tag-coal","tag-corporate-irresponsibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","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=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}