{"id":6294,"date":"2013-08-12T08:15:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T12:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=6294"},"modified":"2013-07-22T13:56:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T17:56:19","slug":"year-4-month-8-day-12-oh-didnt-we-ramble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-4-month-8-day-12-oh-didnt-we-ramble\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 4, Month 8, Day 12: Oh, Didn&#8217;t We Ramble?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NOLA Defender (New Orleans, LA) gives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noladefender.com\/content\/nola-cul45ture-lea78ders-speak-out-climate-change\">the Big Easy&#8217;s perspective on climate:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Global warming often conjures images of melting ice caps and smokestacks spewing soot. On Friday, a group of New Orleans cultural pillars put brass bands and New Orleans food in the conversation. Community leaders and climate change awareness activists flooded the docks at Mardis Gras World Friday afternoon to support the I Will #ActOnClimate campaign, and to discuss the potential impact of climate change on New Orleans. <\/p>\n<p>After Glen Hall III, of the Baby Boys Brass Band, piped out his rendition of the National Anthem on the trumpet, New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation President and CEO Mark Romig gave his opening comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all affected by climate change, including this city\u2019s tourism industry, which is a major economic driver,\u201d he said. \u201cTourism relies on the things that make New Orleans so great, like our picturesque wetlands, our world-renowned seafood, our rich culture, our heritage, all of which are at risk due to the changing climate. Chefs, musicians, tour guides, artists, and event planners have gathered here to urge action to end climate change.  Not only for the sake of our industry, but because we have a moral obligation to future generations.\u201d <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This one was pretty deeply felt.  July 21:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blues and jazz may have been born of hard times, but New Orleans\u2019 musical genius took its character not only from sorrow and oppression, but from the region\u2019s productive agriculture and essentially benign environment.  The same is true everywhere in the world: music flourishes where there\u2019s enough to eat, where people have enough security to devote time to refining their artistry, and performing for audiences, and teaching their craft to others.  Thanks to its location, the Crescent City is feeling the punishing effects of climate change more immediately than many other locations, so this formulation is no abstraction.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s New York or New Delhi, Laos or Louisiana, the arts only flourish when the climate allows people to invest their time in cultural expression.  Subtract climatic stability, and it\u2019s not just agriculture and infrastructure that\u2019ll suffer; without a habitable future, all of humanity\u2019s priceless and unique musical expression is at risk.  <\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noladefender.com\/content\/mon45day-m1ail-bag\">Published.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NOLA Defender (New Orleans, LA) gives the Big Easy&#8217;s perspective on climate: Global warming often conjures images of melting ice caps and smokestacks spewing soot. On Friday, a group of New Orleans cultural pillars put brass bands and New Orleans food in the conversation. Community leaders and climate change awareness activists flooded the docks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,6,9,310],"tags":[733,1278,1277,241],"class_list":["post-6294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-environment","category-music","category-personal","tag-agriculture","tag-culture","tag-ethnomusicology","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294","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=6294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6301,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294\/revisions\/6301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}