{"id":1113,"date":"2011-03-16T12:04:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T12:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=586"},"modified":"2011-03-16T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T12:04:02","slug":"we-want-what-we-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"“We want what we want…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Japanese scramble to avert a complete meltdown at a nuclear facility today. \u00a0 The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant melted down, spewing massive amounts of radiation throughout Russia and Europe. \u00a0 The Deep Water Horizon catastrophe spewed massive amounts of oil throughout the Gulf of Mexico. \u00a0 Then there was the Exon Valdez fiasco in Alaska… \u00a0 I could go on with this, but I think you get the point. \u00a0 We are awash in consequences because of our addiction to fossil fuel and nuclear energy sources. \u00a0 Extrapolated out, we’re addicted to comfort.<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0 Many in the U.S. for instance, have central heating, central air-conditioning… and don’t, for a minute, want to feel the least bit ‘uncomfortable’ in our homes. \u00a0 Likewise, we drive practically everywhere now in temperature controlled vehicles because we don’t want to feel ‘uncomfortable’ in the elements, or through physical exertion. \u00a0 Meanwhile we drill more, we erect more nuclear power plants… \u00a0 even in the face of what is becoming these tremendously lethal consequences. \u00a0 Because, as with any addict: \u00a0 “We want what we want when we want it!”<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 I am just finishing up a position paper on transportation, with a special focus on “fossil-fuel driven motorized transportation.” \u00a0 Did you know that we average now about 33,000 road deaths a year in America? \u00a0 That’s like half an airliner going down, every day. \u00a0 And if the latter was happening, do you think for a minute that we’d still be flying? \u00a0 But, well, when you’re “auto-addicted” your denial can be pretty deep. \u00a0 As these cars can be pretty intoxicating.
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The Japanese scramble to avert a complete meltdown at a nuclear facility today. \u00a0 The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant melted down, spewing massive amounts of radiation throughout Russia and Europe. \u00a0 The Deep Water Horizon catastrophe spewed massive amounts of …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}