{"id":2453695,"date":"2020-01-24T22:40:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T05:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/climate-action-starts-with-the-people\/"},"modified":"2020-01-25T07:57:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T14:57:49","slug":"climate-action-starts-with-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/climate-action-starts-with-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate action starts with the people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In response to Meredith Carroll\u2019s column <a id=\"N0x19ce650N0x1b90230:N0x19ce650N0x1a90dc0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/meredith-c-carroll-shame-on-the-climate-shamers\/\">\u201cShame on the climate shamers\u201d<\/a> (Jan. 22, aspentimes.com). It sure is tempting to believe Auden Schendler\u2019s perspective on the climate crisis, but the magnitude and the momentum of the problem leads me to believe otherwise. Magnitude \u2014 humans emitted 36 billion tons of CO2 last year. Momentum \u2014 CO2 is cumulative since these emissions last 100 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I\u2019d like to see you write an opinion this spring when the Keeling Curve (Wikipedia it) reaches a new all time high pushing CO2 to levels which haven\u2019t been seen for what, 2 to 3 million years; a time when there were palm trees in Antarctica and the oceans were high enough to cover all of Earth\u2019s current coastal cities. He\u2019s right that we need to decarbonize the economy, but to put all of the responsibility of the problem solely on business and governments and to give individuals a pass is crazy. Change isn\u2019t going to happen fast enough with that perspective.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Like America\u2019s response to World War II, this is now an all-hands-on-deck problem. Can you imagine if someone then expressed, \u201cI don\u2019t need to help the war effort because businesses, governments and the military will fix it.\u201d They would have been rightfully shamed for that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Tom Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/climate-action-starts-with-the-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Meredith Carroll\u2019s column \u201cShame on the climate shamers\u201d (Jan. 22, aspentimes.com). It sure is tempting to believe Auden Schendler\u2019s perspective on the climate crisis, but the magnitude and the momentum of the problem leads me to believe otherwise. Magnitude \u2014 humans emitted 36 billion tons of CO2 last year. Momentum \u2014 CO2 [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 18:58:11","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453710,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453695\/revisions\/2453710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}