{"id":523,"date":"2008-02-12T19:02:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T00:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/02\/12\/pollution\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T19:02:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T00:02:05","slug":"pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/02\/12\/pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t consider myself a &#8216;hardcore environmentalist,&#8217; but I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s anyone on the planet who wouldn&#8217;t agree that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odditycentral.com\/pics\/sea-of-garbage.html\">this is absurd<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It could be easily fixed, too, if someone (Indonesian government? UN? Environmental groups?) were willing to pay a bit. Hand out nets, and offer a nominal amount of money for each pound of garbage pulled out of the river. 5 cents a pound? Figure that they can get at least 100 pounds of garbage in a big net, in probably twenty minutes of work. You just need to drag it behind you until it&#8217;s full.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that pulling all the garbage out of the river won&#8217;t instantly cure it of its problems. (Currently, <a href=\"http:\/\/bitsandpieces1.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/too-many-fish-in-sea.html\">even fish can&#8217;t live in it<\/a>.) But I&#8217;m also pretty confident that pulling all of the garbage out of the river would be an improvement over leaving it in&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t consider myself a &#8216;hardcore environmentalist,&#8217; but I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s anyone on the planet who wouldn&#8217;t agree that this is absurd. It could be easily fixed, too, if someone (Indonesian government? UN? Environmental groups?) were willing to pay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/02\/12\/pollution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,10,12,18,21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-links","category-humanitarianism","category-ideas","category-interesting","category-ocd","category-politics","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}