{"id":4774,"date":"2012-10-18T16:15:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T21:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=4774"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:49:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:49:23","slug":"were-all-going-to-die-and-no-ones-talking-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=4774","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re all going to die and no-one&#8217;s talking about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/programs\/big-picture\/\">The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann (RT)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S8AuaBoCIhw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Human Race may very well die out &#8211; and no one is talking about it. The fact that we&#8217;ve now gone through three Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates &#8211; and not once has global climate change been brought up &#8211; should be, to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, an &#8220;Alarm bell in the night&#8221; for all of us. Especially because this last September was the hottest September ever recorded in the civilized history of the human race. Not only that &#8211; this last September produced the smallest amount of Arctic ice ever recorded in the civilized history of the human race.<\/p>\n<p>Our planet is rapidly changing &#8211; scientists across the world are freaking out &#8211; farmers are getting hysterical and, in many countries, committing suicide in mass numbers &#8211; and yet our two Presidential candidates are fighting about who&#8217;s going to pump more carbon pollution into the atmosphere: That would have been the perfect time for Candy Crowley to chime in an say &#8211; &#8220;Hey, guys what about the climate change crisis that&#8217;s being worsened by all of this drilling?&#8221; But she didn&#8217;t &#8211; and then Romney bashed the President over not approving the Keystone XL pipeline&#8230;Actually the President DID approve the Keystone pipeline &#8211; at least a large portion of it &#8211; and he&#8217;ll likely approve the rest if he wins a second term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann (RT) The Human Race may very well die out &#8211; and no one is talking about it. The fact that we&#8217;ve now gone through three Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates &#8211; and not once has global climate change been brought up &#8211; should be, to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[577,5,392,290,167,168,1078,1378,880],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7067,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774\/revisions\/7067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}