{"id":3070,"date":"2008-01-21T19:49:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T00:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/01\/21\/kill-humans-and-ration-heating\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T19:49:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T00:49:40","slug":"kill-humans-and-ration-heating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/01\/kill-humans-and-ration-heating\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill humans and ration heating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">In a new book of interviews with<br \/>\ncelebrities called &#8220;Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth?&#8221; there is one<br \/>\nby <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/01\/21\/philip_pullman_wartime_misery\/\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">Phillip Pullman that includes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">&#8230;&#8221;This is a crisis as big as war and<br \/>\nyou<br \/>\ncouldn&#8217;t trade your ration book in the wartime. You were allowed three<br \/>\nounces of butter a week, or whatever, and that was it. And this is what<br \/>\nit should be like with carbon. None of this carbon trading. We should<br \/>\nhave a fixed limit and if you use it all up in October, then tough, you<br \/>\nshiver for the rest of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;If the polar bears leapt from the pages of my fiction into reality<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nsaw what was happening,&#8221; reckons Pullman, &#8220;they&#8217;d eat us. Eat as many<br \/>\nof us as quickly as they possibly could. And good luck to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Well it looks like Mr. Pulman has found<br \/>\nreligion &#8211; global climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new book of interviews with celebrities called &#8220;Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth?&#8221; there is one by Phillip Pullman that includes: &#8230;&#8221;This is a crisis as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}