{"id":245825,"date":"2010-01-29T08:37:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T13:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75140"},"modified":"2010-01-29T08:37:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T13:37:29","slug":"a-green-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/245825","title":{"rendered":"A Green al-Qaeda?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Osama bin Laden is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/canadianpress\/article\/ALeqM5gqVOOe63fQ9-0TeH-cl_cTDt_62A\">so desperate for international support that he&#8217;ll start making an environmentalist case against the United States<\/a>, something is going very right. Still, Get Energy Smart Now is trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/getenergysmartnow.com\/2010\/01\/29\/bin-ladens-distorted-world-view-and-distorted-view-of-climate-change\/\">stop the stupidity before it starts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Turning the world back to the 12th century, including killing off perhaps 95 percent or so of the world\u2019s population supportable without modern technology and with women suppressed without health care (dying in child birth), might well actually address \u201cclimate change\u201d in an incredibly dystopian and immoral fashion. (Oops, moral in your distorted lens on the world.) &#8230; <span id=\"more-75140\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>That bin Laden is able to, via his distorted lens, gain a glimpse of reality and understand that climate change is a serious issue meriting attention doesn\u2019t suddenly make climate change unreal even though there will be those who seize on this to say things like \u201cbin Laden is against it, therefore I\u2019m for it \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The path \u201cto stop\u201d climate change is not to \u201cbring the wheels of the American economy\u201d to a halt, but to turn those wheels toward the creation of a clean-energy future \u2026 to help Saudi Arabia turn itself into the \u201cSaudi Arabia of Solar Power\u201d \u2026 to aid Afghanis prosper with micro-hydro and wind power and efficient lighting \u2026 to tap geothermal power in nation\u2019s around the world \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Osama bin Laden is so desperate for international support that he&#8217;ll start making an environmentalist case against the United States, something is going very right. Still, Get Energy Smart Now is trying to stop the stupidity before it starts: Turning the world back to the 12th century, including killing off perhaps 95 percent or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}