{"id":573,"date":"2011-02-18T15:19:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=573"},"modified":"2011-02-18T15:19:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:19:17","slug":"stuck-on-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"stuck on stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Gwynne Dyer, author of the book <em>Climate Wars<\/em>, for each year we don&#8217;t &#8220;come up with an adequate climate deal (Copenhagen Accords was a bust),&#8221; it is probably costing somewhere on the order of 50 million premature deaths between now and the end of the century. \u00a0 One of the more offending fossil fuels is: coal. \u00a0 So today I&#8217;m reading in <em>Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine<\/em> \u00a0 that while America is starting to steer away from coal a bit with more proposed nuclear power plants, more green energy sources, and so on&#8230; reciprocally, we&#8217;re tremendously increasing our export of coal to other countries &#8212; the biggest percent going to China. \u00a0 China is a country that&#8217;s pollution control is abysmal. \u00a0 This all begs the question(s) for America: \u00a0 <em>Are we stuck on stupid?<\/em> \u00a0 <em>Do we think global warming is going to stop at our borders?<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 During Campaign 2008, our family did a 300-mile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/road\/endglobalwarmingbicycletourohio2006.htm\"><strong>End Global Warming Bicycle Tour<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0 While being interviewed by a newspaper in Wellington, Ohio, I posed this question: \u00a0 &#8220;What kind of parent would even consider risking leaving a planet of climate chaos to their children?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Gwynne Dyer, author of the book Climate Wars, for each year we don&#8217;t &#8220;come up with an adequate climate deal (Copenhagen Accords was a bust),&#8221; it is probably costing somewhere on the order of 50 million premature deaths <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=573\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","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=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}