{"id":68824,"date":"2009-12-07T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/more-specious-screams-from-global-warming-deniers-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-07T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T15:59:00","slug":"more-specious-screams-about-economic-armageddon-from-global-warming-deniers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/68824","title":{"rendered":"More Specious Screams About Economic Armageddon From Global Warming Deniers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4abd319dcf17961742b2bf26\" border=\"0\" alt=\"PaulKrugman-0909-1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The truth&#8230;is that <strong>cutting greenhouse gas emissions is affordable as well as essential. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Serious studies say that we can achieve sharp reductions in emissions with only a small impact on the economy&rsquo;s growth.<\/p>\n<p>And <strong>the depressed economy is no reason to wait &mdash; on the contrary, an agreement in Copenhagen would probably help the economy recover.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/07\/opinion\/07krugman.html\">Read the whole thing at NYT &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/more-specious-screams-from-global-warming-deniers-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/its-time-for-an-emergency-jobs-program-2009-11\">It&#8217;s Time For An Emergency Jobs Program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/PekqpnpVJI4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The truth&#8230;is that cutting greenhouse gas emissions is affordable as well as essential. Serious studies say that we can achieve sharp reductions in emissions with only a small impact on the economy&rsquo;s growth. And the depressed economy is no reason to wait &mdash; on the contrary, an agreement in Copenhagen would probably help the economy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68824","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}