{"id":766,"date":"2009-10-16T17:51:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T01:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2009-10-16T17:51:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T01:51:06","slug":"how-now-the-plow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/16\/how-now-the-plow\/","title":{"rendered":"How now the plow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attention myopia sufferers,  Jonathan Foley, a climate scientist and director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of the Minnesota, boldly goes where others just can&#8217;t. At least where inconvenient truths are concerned. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enn.com\/top_stories\/commentary\/40555\">&#8220;Learning from the research my colleagues and I have done over the past decade, I fear we are neglecting another, equally inconvenient truth: that we now face a global crisis in land use and agriculture that could undermine the health, security, and sustainability of our civilization.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not content to tout the heroics of owning a Prius, Foley says it&#8217;s time to &#8220;address the massive environmental impacts of our current agricultural practices, which new evidence indicates rival the impacts of climate change.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>And as he points out, &#8220;The list of environmental impacts from agricultural land use goes on and on \u2014 and clearly threatens human well-being and the health of the biosphere as much as global warming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ReadJust the article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/content\/feature.msp?id=2196\">Environmental News Network.<\/a> Then think about how much tofu it&#8217;ll take to feed 9 billion <em>Homo erecus asphaltus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Weather&#8217;s great in sunny New Mexico. Wish U was here.<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<br \/>\nSanta Fe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention myopia sufferers, Jonathan Foley, a climate scientist and director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of the Minnesota, boldly goes where others just can&#8217;t. At least where inconvenient truths are concerned. &#8220;Learning from the research my colleagues and I have done over the past decade, I fear we are neglecting another, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}