{"id":343775,"date":"2018-01-14T14:20:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T13:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/transition-towns-offer-hope-for-the-future\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T14:20:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T13:20:12","slug":"transition-towns-offer-hope-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/transition-towns-offer-hope-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Transition Towns Offer Hope for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year\u2019s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!<em><br \/><\/em>\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/946531657229701120?lang=en\">Donald J. Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reading tweets like this from President Trump incites a mixture of humour and sadness in me.\u00a0 I can\u2019t even tell which sentiment is stronger at this point.\u00a0 Since his exiting the US from the Paris Agreement last year it is difficult to take this person seriously about any utterance he makes on the environment, to include his suspicion that \u201cglobal warming\u201d is a theory advanced \u201cby and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.\u201d\u00a0 The entire planet is suffering previously undocumented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/global-warming\/science-and-impacts\/science\/temperature-is-rising\">shifts in temperature<\/a> that have been recorded since 1880 and we are facing a pollution crisis that has resulted in people in certain cities around the planet having to don face masks to leave their homes.\u00a0 And just yesterday Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/trump-paris-climate-deal-agreement-us-go-back-latest-a8152531.html\">announces<\/a> that he \u201cfeel[s] strongly about the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoceancleanup.com\/\">The Ocean Cleanup<\/a>, eight million tons of plastics enter the oceans every year, most of which has resulted in FIVE giant garbage patches (literally vortexes of pure garbage) floating in major bodies of water.\u00a0 And I write \u201cfive\u201d even though this number is relative given that just last summer another patch in the Pacific was found that is <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2017\/07\/ocean-plastic-patch-south-pacific-spd\/\">larger than Mexico<\/a> and scientists are now&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/01\/transition-towns-offer-hope-for-the-future\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year\u2019s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!\u2014\u00a0Donald J. Trump Reading tweets like this from President Trump incites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}