{"id":985,"date":"2009-11-18T05:52:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T13:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=985"},"modified":"2009-11-18T05:52:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T13:52:39","slug":"the-wild-blue-yonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/18\/the-wild-blue-yonder\/","title":{"rendered":"the Wild Blue Yonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More evidence that quick-techno fixes for carbon spewing humanoids is bogus &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>As reported by the <em>New York Times<\/em> in a piece titled: <em>Paying More for Flights Eases Guilt, Not Emissions<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/18\/science\/earth\/18offset.html?hp\">\u201cThe carbon offset has become this magic pill, a kind of get-out-of-jail-free card,\u201d Justin Francis, the managing director of Responsible Travel, one of the world\u2019s largest green travel companies to embrace environmental sustainability, said in an interview. \u201cIt\u2019s seductive to the consumer who says, \u2018It\u2019s $4 and I\u2019m carbon-neutral, so I can fly all I want.\u2019\u201d Offsets, he argues, are distracting people from making more significant behavioral changes, like flying less.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>buckle your seat belts.<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More evidence that quick-techno fixes for carbon spewing humanoids is bogus &#8211; As reported by the New York Times in a piece titled: Paying More for Flights Eases Guilt, Not Emissions &#8211; \u201cThe carbon offset has become this magic pill, a kind of get-out-of-jail-free card,\u201d Justin Francis, the managing director of Responsible Travel, one of [&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-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","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=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}