{"id":691,"date":"2012-07-26T17:08:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T22:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2012-08-07T22:13:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T03:13:34","slug":"environment-and-climate-%e2%80%93-it%e2%80%99s-not-just-about-the-whales-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Gradualism and\/or revolution in climate change? It&#8217;s not just about the whales anymore."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although any individual instance does not establish a trend, the pattern of an increasing number of hot days and weather extremes, along with other climate changes, unfortunately makes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/26\/us\/rise-in-weather-extremes-threatens-infrastructure.html\">climate-change danger<\/a> irrefutably clear (except for a few in the pay of the 1%).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We won\u2019t suddenly find that there\u2019s no food. We won\u2019t suddenly find ourselves swimming. But we will find that nothing seems to work right. Energy, transportation and communication will become less reliable and prone to lapses that require all sorts of \u201ctemporary\u201d workarounds. Instance from article: When cooling water for an atomic power plant exceeded the 100 degree limit, they raised the limit to 102 degrees (temperature of the current water). The poor and working class will be the first to be significantly affected. This could pose the threat of major social disruption in this country, which would (if trends continue) be met by increased force and repression on those with the least financial resources and their supporters.\u00a0Other countries (also suffering and unstable) will be blamed and false patriotism will echo the clarion call for war. Will we be able to know the truth and hold to it, or will our government\u2019s repression of the truth result in either dictatorship or chaos?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although any individual instance does not establish a trend, the pattern of an increasing number of hot days and weather extremes, along with other climate changes, unfortunately makes the climate-change danger irrefutably clear (except for a few in the pay of the 1%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}