{"id":3057,"date":"2011-03-28T00:18:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T04:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2011-03-19T12:39:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T16:39:36","slug":"year-2-month-3-day-28-la-la-la-la-la-la-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-3-day-28-la-la-la-la-la-la-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 3, Day 28: La La La La La La La&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Citizen (Tanzania) runs an article on the recent Gallup poll on the environment, which shows that <a href=\"http:\/\/thecitizen.co.tz\/business\/14-international-business\/9173-fewer-americans-worry-about-climate-change-poll.html\">most American&#8217;s just can&#8217;t be bothered to worry about global warming.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never written to Tanzania before:<\/p>\n<p>Sent March 18:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The numbers given by Gallup&#8217;s annual polling on the environment are distressing but hardly surprising.  Enabled by the country&#8217;s promiscuous consumption of fossil fuels, most Americans enjoy many of the privileges of wealth, including that of ignorance in the face of overwhelming evidence.  Given enough money and comfort, it&#8217;s possible to remain oblivious to even the clearest danger or the most egregious injustice.  With per-capita CO2 emissions at levels twenty-five times greater than (for example) Bangladesh, the United States is one of the world&#8217;s primary drivers of climate change \u2014 but with American media and politics increasingly beholden to petroleum interests, it&#8217;s unlikely that US citizens will receive the information they need about how their habits of consumption affect the rest of the planet.  Ignorance is indeed a luxury; as global warming&#8217;s feedback loops quicken, Americans will discover that great wealth is no protection from the consequences of their wastefulness.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Citizen (Tanzania) runs an article on the recent Gallup poll on the environment, which shows that most American&#8217;s just can&#8217;t be bothered to worry about global warming. I&#8217;ve never written to Tanzania before: Sent March 18: The numbers given by Gallup&#8217;s annual polling on the environment are distressing but hardly surprising. Enabled by the [&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":[240,749,838],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-corporatism","tag-ignorance","tag-polling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","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=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3058,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}