{"id":2247,"date":"2011-03-31T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/solar-and-wind-all-that-is-lacking-is-the-political-will.html"},"modified":"2011-03-31T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T20:00:00","slug":"solar-and-wind-all-that-is-lacking-is-the-political-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/solar-and-wind-all-that-is-lacking-is-the-political-will.html","title":{"rendered":"Solar and wind: All that is lacking is the political will"},"content":{"rendered":"Mike Childs wrote in the Guardian on 27 March 2011,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theobserver\/2011\/mar\/27\/big-issue-nuclear-power-fukushima\">\nOur green energy potential is huge, but gets little support:\nThe crisis at Fukushima calls into question our nuclear power policy<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theobserver\/2011\/mar\/27\/big-issue-nuclear-power-fukushima\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreatdebate.org.uk\/MikeChilds.jpg\n\"><\/a>\nNuclear power is a gamble we don&#8217;t need to take. Studies show that the\nUK can meet its energy needs and tackle climate change without resorting\nto nuclear power or burning fossil fuels \u2013 all that is lacking is the\npolitical will.\n<\/blockquote>\nStudies like\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/scotland-planning-more-offshore-wind-power-than-needed-for-all-its-homes.html\">\nthis one for Scotland<\/a>\nand\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/how-to-power-the-world-with-wind-water-and-sun.html\">\nthis one for the whole world.<\/a>\n<p>\nAnd the U.K. is way north of Georgia.\nGeorgia gets a lot more sunlight and has plenty of wind off the coast.\nAll that is lacking here, too, is the political will.\n<p>\nIf Atlanta won&#8217;t lead, why not Valdosta and Lowndes County?\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Childs wrote in the Guardian on 27 March 2011, Our green energy potential is huge, but gets little support: The crisis at Fukushima calls into question our nuclear power policy Nuclear power is a gamble we don&#8217;t need to take. Studies show that the UK can meet its energy needs and tackle climate change [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,2,21,22,24,36],"tags":[336,4807,8737,794,8712,8714,8716],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-government","category-planning","category-politics","category-solar","category-wind","tag-friends-of-the-earth","tag-mike-childs","tag-nuclear","tag-political-will","tag-politics","tag-solar","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-Af","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}