{"id":368,"date":"2006-06-11T12:37:58","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T17:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2006-07-19T16:47:28","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T21:47:28","slug":"an-inconvenient-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"An inconvenient column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/06\/11\/EDGS0INK5L1.DTL&#038;feed=rss.opinion\">Gore as savior<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cutting to the chase:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In his book, &#8220;Earth in the Balance,&#8221; Gore warned that &#8220;sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation of society&#8221; would be necessary to save the planet. Even if a &#8220;miraculous technology&#8221; was able to cut per-capita greenhouse gas emissions in half, he wrote, Washington still would have to raise taxes on gasoline, electricity and heating oil.<\/p>\n<p>No more. In 2006, Gore tells moviegoers that, as dire as the situation may be, the changes needed to avert global warming would not be onerous, except maybe for some greedy corporations.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gore as savior? Cutting to the chase: &#8220;In his book, &#8220;Earth in the Balance,&#8221; Gore warned that &#8220;sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-change","category-prez-politics-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}