{"id":773,"date":"2009-04-29T21:31:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=773"},"modified":"2009-04-29T21:31:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:31:46","slug":"can-we-go-cold-turkey-on-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/can-we-go-cold-turkey-on-fossil-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we go &#8220;cold turkey&#8221; on fossil fuels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists now warn that we must effectively <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8023072.stm\">halt fossil fuel use if we are to avoid global climate warming<\/a> of 2 degrees C by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s probably a realistic estimate.\u00a0 But we are unlikely to do it.\u00a0 In fact we probably won&#8217;t even try.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=771\">See previous post<\/a>.)\u00a0 But we could take a big step in that direction if we felt it to be worthy of our attention.\u00a0 That is unlikely for the moment given economic concerns and systematic indifference.<\/p>\n<p>Having given the cynics view, the best thing you can do is start planning for a low energy lifestyle to make the change easier.\u00a0 That change is going to come sooner than we think.<\/p>\n<p>BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8023072.stm\">&#8216;Safe&#8217; climate means &#8216;no to coal&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists now warn that we must effectively halt fossil fuel use if we are to avoid global climate warming of 2 degrees C by 2050. That&#8217;s probably a realistic estimate.\u00a0 But we are unlikely to do it.\u00a0 In fact we probably won&#8217;t even try.\u00a0 (See previous post.)\u00a0 But we could take a big step in &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/can-we-go-cold-turkey-on-fossil-fuels\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can we go &#8220;cold turkey&#8221; on fossil fuels?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,7,22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-climatechange","category-living","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-ct","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}