{"id":1314048,"date":"2019-08-27T23:55:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T05:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=986752"},"modified":"2019-08-27T23:55:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T05:55:12","slug":"letter-we-cant-afford-to-continue-as-we-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/letter-we-cant-afford-to-continue-as-we-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: We can\u2019t afford to continue as we have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cDomestic industry is creating \u2018tremendous wealth.\u2019 I am not going to lose that wealth. I am not going to lose that wealth on dreams \u2014 on wind mills, which frankly, aren\u2019t working too well.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\u2014 President Donald Trump<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have predicted that climate change will result in more frequent and larger fires and storms, along with more extreme weather conditions such as drought and flooding. Some statistics from 2018 support those predictions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Forest Service, the cost of fighting fires in 2018 was $2.9 billion, twelve times more than in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018 flooding cost us $1.6 billion. The NOAA has calculated that in 2018 there were 14 separate storm events each costing more than $ 1 billion, adding up to a grand total of $91 billion for the year.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2016 and 2018 the annual average of billion dollar disasters was more than twice the long term average.<\/p>\n<p>Please consider the possibility that we are already losing wealth on dreams. These dreams are not windmills, but are instead a dreamlike denial of the dangers we face from not addressing climate change. We simply cannot afford to continue as we have in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce Wizer<br \/>Rifle<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/letter-we-cant-afford-to-continue-as-we-have\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDomestic industry is creating \u2018tremendous wealth.\u2019 I am not going to lose that wealth. I am not going to lose that wealth on dreams \u2014 on wind mills, which frankly, aren\u2019t working too well.\u201d\u2014 President Donald Trump Scientists have predicted that climate change will result in more frequent and larger fires and storms, along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1314048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 15:57:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}