{"id":2390,"date":"2009-05-28T15:02:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T22:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/05\/28\/leave-nature-alooooooone\/"},"modified":"2009-05-28T15:02:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T22:02:32","slug":"leave-nature-alooooooone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/leave-nature-alooooooone\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave Nature Alooooooone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This might be my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2009\/05\/exciting-maps-with-lots-of-colors.html\">favorite Atrios post ever<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Exciting Maps With Lots Of Colors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Play around with maps at the <a href=\"http:\/\/htaindex.cnt.org\/\">H&amp;T Affordability Site<\/a>. Not very surprisingly, people who live (for example) in the city of Philadelphia drive less and have lower vehicle carbon emissions per household. Though not surprising, there is a weird tendency to equate environmentalism with being near nature when in fact the enviornmentalist thing to do is LEAVE NATURE ALOOOOONE and live a modestly-sized place in an urban hellhole with decent mass transit.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/theoverheadwire.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/not-about-just-buildings-cars.html\">via the overhead wire<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Though I live car free in my urban hellhole because I don&#8217;t need a car and like my urban hellhole, not because of environmental concerns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly my own carbon footprint is presumably enormous, even though I live in an urban hellhole, because I drive an aspirational vehicle and fly around the world a lot.  If I were prone to feeling guilty about things, I&#8217;d definitely feel guilty for that.  But I make up for it by giving talks in Second Life, so I&#8217;m pretty sure everything is balanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This might be my favorite Atrios post ever: Exciting Maps With Lots Of Colors Play around with maps at the H&amp;T Affordability Site. Not very surprisingly, people who live (for example) in the city of Philadelphia drive less and have lower vehicle carbon emissions per household. Though not surprising, there is a weird tendency to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}