{"id":553,"date":"2010-06-19T00:50:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T04:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2010-06-22T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T13:34:10","slug":"bp-the-lorax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/bp-the-lorax\/","title":{"rendered":"BP &#038; the Lorax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ca1030-bp-freedom-of-speech-c2428.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em><strong>he speaks for the trees, as the trees have no tongues.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t know about this book by Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka, Dr. Seuss. An environmental book for young people. Buy from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lorax-Classic-Seuss-Dr\/dp\/0394823370\">Amazon<\/a>, send to your politicians.<br \/>&#8220;Our default mode in looking at the world is: &#8216;How can we make money from it?&#8217; And so that was the lure of the farmers who helped create the conditions that led to the Dust Bowl. It&#8217;s true of BP,&#8221; said Adam Rome, a professor at Pennsylvania State University. &#8220;If you think that way, you&#8217;re going to be willfully blind to the costs that you don&#8217;t pay,&#8221; he said, until there&#8217;s a disaster. &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/06\/21\/AR2010062104676_2.html?sub=AR&#038;sid=ST2010062104783\">WaPo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he speaks for the trees, as the trees have no tongues. I didn&#8217;t know about this book by Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka, Dr. Seuss. An environmental book for young people. Buy from Amazon, send to your politicians.&#8220;Our default mode in looking at the world is: &#8216;How can we make money from it?&#8217; And so that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/bp-the-lorax\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BP &#038; the Lorax&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-signs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}