{"id":4905,"date":"2012-06-16T02:19:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T02:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2012-06-08T04:05:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T04:05:44","slug":"year-3-month-6-day-19-summer-in-the-city-%e2%80%94-back-of-my-neck-feeling-dirt-and-gritty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-3-month-6-day-19-summer-in-the-city-%e2%80%94-back-of-my-neck-feeling-dirt-and-gritty\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 3, Month 6, Day 16: Summer In The City \u2014 Back Of My Neck Feeling Dirt And Gritty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn.  I wonder how the hell <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/greenhouse\/post\/2012\/06\/us-cities-trail-latin-america-in-climate-change-preps\/1#.T8-9y7_Yc-8\">this<\/a> happened:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Major U.S. cities are among the world&#8217;s wealthiest and technologically advanced, but they lag behind their counterparts in Latin America in preparing for climate change, a survey finds.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all, or 95%, of major cities in Latin America are making plans to deal with the adverse impact of climate change, compared to 59% of such cities in the United States. according to a survey of 468 cities worldwide released this week by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>The most prepared cities are often those facing the greatest changes in temperature or rainfall, the survey finds. For example, officials in Equador&#8217;s mountainous capitol of Quito have been studying the effects of global warming on nearby melting glaciers, developing ways to handle potential water shortages and organizing regional conferences on climate change.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>U.S.A.!!!! U.S.A.!!!! U.S.A.!!!! U.S.A.!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because Shut Up, That&#8217;s Why.<\/p>\n<p>Sent June 6:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s puzzling.  The United States has been a world leader in science and technology for decades.  Our record in innovation is unrivaled; our capacity for responding to crises is second to none.<\/p>\n<p>Or so we claim, anyway.  The news that cities in Latin America are far further along than those in the USA when it comes preparing for the inevitable effects of global climate should have a sobering effect on American exceptionalists.  It should, but it won&#8217;t \u2014 because the folks who insist that our country is Number One in Everything are the same ones who&#8217;ve swallowed the convenient falsehood that the burgeoning climate crisis is actually a conspiracy fabricated by a secret cabal of scientists and liberals.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Latin America&#8217;s cities are ahead of us in preparation because they aren&#8217;t distracted by a clamor of media voices promulgating a false equivalency between climate science and corporate mendacity.  Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn. I wonder how the hell this happened: Major U.S. cities are among the world&#8217;s wealthiest and technologically advanced, but they lag behind their counterparts in Latin America in preparing for climate change, a survey finds. Nearly all, or 95%, of major cities in Latin America are making plans to deal with the adverse impact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[680,254,644,1053],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-corporate-irresponsibility","tag-false-equivalence","tag-media-irresponsibility","tag-mitigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905","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=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4911,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/4911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}