{"id":5250,"date":"2012-10-13T04:08:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=5250"},"modified":"2012-10-06T20:18:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T00:18:23","slug":"year-3-month-10-day-13-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-3-month-10-day-13-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 3, Month 10, Day 13: Fever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Pierce normally writes about politics for Esquire, but he noticed that Hantavirus was showing up in a place it wasn&#8217;t expected.  You should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/yosemite-hantavirus-climate-change-13403567\">read the whole piece:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Just to get your weekend off to a happy start, there seems to be an outbreak of the hantavirus in Yosemite, and folks aren&#8217;t entirely sure that it will stay there, or that it will be the only little biological horror to visit these shores.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sent October 6:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The news that climate change has triggered outbreaks of Hantavirus in Yosemite National Park should surprise no one; it is common epidemiological knowledge that a major illness brings minor ones in its wake.  The metastasizing greenhouse effect is such an illness, crippling the planetary &#8220;immune system&#8221; that has allowed both an effulgent biodiversity and a richly complex human civilization to flourish over the past few tens of thousands of years.<\/p>\n<p>Look around carefully and you&#8217;ll find similar &#8220;sicknesses&#8221; at different levels of scale throughout Earth&#8217;s interdependent ecologies.  Whether it&#8217;s acidified oceans, beetle-infested forests, tropical diseases in New England, droughts in Iowa, floods in Pakistan, or methane bubbling from the surface of the Arctic ocean, these manifestations of a grave underlying condition can no longer be denied or ignored.  <\/p>\n<p>The widespread rejection of scientific reality in American society is a symptom of another sort, for major illness is often accompanied by cognitive impairment and disorientation.  Is not the climate-change denial pervading our media and politics just such a systemic delirium?<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Pierce normally writes about politics for Esquire, but he noticed that Hantavirus was showing up in a place it wasn&#8217;t expected. You should read the whole piece: Just to get your weekend off to a happy start, there seems to be an outbreak of the hantavirus in Yosemite, and folks aren&#8217;t entirely sure that [&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":[292,1188,644,1187,606],"class_list":["post-5250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-denialism","tag-illness","tag-media-irresponsibility","tag-plagues","tag-republican-obstructionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250","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=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5251,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions\/5251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}