{"id":4269,"date":"2013-06-23T23:16:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T04:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2013-06-24T00:20:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T05:20:56","slug":"global-warming-meh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4269","title":{"rendered":"Global warming? Meh."},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a great downplayer for the worry about global warming. At AmSpec<\/a> Shawn Macomber interviews two professors at King’s College (New York), C. David Corbin and Matt Parks.\u00c2\u00a0 In making a contrast between the ‘blind spots’ of two generations, they have a unique way of describing what we’re worried about with the warming trend:<\/p>\n

Still, every generation has its blind spots: in our college days twenty years ago we all wanted to save the whales; today they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re afraid global warming might give them a little too much ocean to swim in.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes. Well, we’re not worried about where we’ll swim when we are worried about global warming.\u00c2\u00a0 The point of the contrast is not to make a substantive claim, of course.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, it’s more like a gesture that says: Fuck substantive claims about global warming.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t care at all.\u00c2\u00a0 BLAH BLAH BLAH.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a great downplayer for the worry about global warming. At AmSpec Shawn Macomber interviews two professors at King’s College (New York), C. David Corbin and Matt Parks.\u00c2\u00a0 In making a contrast between the ‘blind spots’ of two generations, they have a unique way of describing what we’re worried about with the warming trend: Still, … Continue reading Global warming? Meh.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4271,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions\/4271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}