{"id":2448,"date":"2012-12-28T19:47:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T01:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2012-12-28T19:47:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T01:47:22","slug":"we-are-falling-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2012\/12\/28\/we-are-falling-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"we are falling behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are not saints like those Scandinavians \u00e2\u20ac\u201d we were lapping up fossil fuels, buying bigger cars and homes, <strong>very American<\/strong>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Eamon Ryan, who was Ireland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s energy minister from 2007 to 2011. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We just set up a price signal that raised significant revenue and changed behavior. Now, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re smashing through the environmental targets we set for ourselves.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/28\/science\/earth\/in-ireland-carbon-taxes-pay-off.html?_r=1&amp;\">Carbon Taxes Make Ireland Even Greener<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are not saints like those Scandinavians \u00e2\u20ac\u201d we were lapping up fossil fuels, buying bigger cars and homes, very American,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Eamon Ryan, who was Ireland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s energy minister from 2007 to 2011. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We just set up a price signal that raised significant revenue and changed behavior. Now, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re smashing through the environmental targets we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-Du","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/2449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}