{"id":237,"date":"2013-05-22T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T14:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/?p=237"},"modified":"2013-05-22T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T14:21:34","slug":"the-speed-we-respond-to-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"The Speed We Respond to Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What could seriously help deal with climate changing emissions but only moves at 89 metres a day ? One answer is Negawatts.\u00a0 Instead of paying utilities to build more power stations to meet rising demand, or exhorting consumers to use less, we pay them for saving energy. The idea was first proven <a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/pj3x9qe\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/O4yOBOdJ7F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-expanded-url=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/pj3x9qe\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/pj3x9qe\u00a0<\/a>at least as long ago as 1990, in Kiel, Germany.\u00a0 Today (22 May 2013) it was announced that the UK Government has finally accepted it as policy.<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/p2x3u8s\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/h3rvij0q9Z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-expanded-url=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/p2x3u8s\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/p2x3u8s\u00a0<\/a> Partly at least.\u00a0 By my reckoning that&#8217;s 23 years for a good idea to travel 755 km, or about 33 km a year, or 89 metres a day &#8230; a speed of 0.004km\/hr.\u00a0<small><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What could seriously help deal with climate changing emissions but only moves at 89 metres a day ? One answer is Negawatts.\u00a0 Instead of paying utilities to build more power stations to meet rising demand, or exhorting consumers to use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/?p=237\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}