{"id":2615,"date":"2015-12-15T20:56:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T02:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2016-11-13T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T15:24:42","slug":"its-more-than-climate-chaneg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2015\/12\/15\/its-more-than-climate-chaneg\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s more than climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Reducing humanity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s carbon pollution will certainly be logistically difficult, but its roots are essentially blameless \u00e2\u20ac\u201c by the time climate change was a problem, nations had built their economies on cheap fossil fuel \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and conceptually simple: pollute less. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comforting to think that, if humanity can fix Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s climate, nature\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s problems will be also be solved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>But that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/opinions\/why-we-need-to-stop-thinking-so-much-about-climate-change?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AeonMagazineEssays+%28Aeon+Magazine+Essays%29\">Why we need to stop thinking so much about climate c&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I mentioned in an earlier post that I was currently digging through Countdown by Alan Weisman. It should be abundantly\u00c2\u00a0clear that there is so much more to protecting the earth and environment\u00c2\u00a0than climate change alone.<\/p>\n<p>The author nails it in this final quote,\u00c2\u00a0we have trouble debating even the most conceptually simple problems, let alone beginning to tackle the reduction of\u00c2\u00a0our footprint on\u00c2\u00a0complex ecosystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reducing humanity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s carbon pollution will certainly be logistically difficult, but its roots are essentially blameless \u00e2\u20ac\u201c by the time climate change was a problem, nations had built their economies on cheap fossil fuel \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and conceptually simple: pollute less. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comforting to think that, if humanity can fix Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s climate, nature\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s problems will be also [&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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[219],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-Gb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","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=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}