{"id":2273,"date":"2011-03-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/what-do-you-need-to-see-to-conclude-this-biomass-plant-is-a-bad-idea-dr-mark-patrick-george-vcc-24-march-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-03-26T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T14:00:00","slug":"what-do-you-need-to-see-to-conclude-this-biomass-plant-is-a-bad-idea-dr-mark-patrick-george-vcc-24-march-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/what-do-you-need-to-see-to-conclude-this-biomass-plant-is-a-bad-idea-dr-mark-patrick-george-vcc-24-march-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"What do you need to see to conclude this biomass plant is a bad idea? &#8211;Dr. Mark Patrick George @ VCC 24 March 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5559688271\/in\/set-72157626353658596\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5189\/5559688271_a14159a0de_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nDr. George gets to the point!<br \/>\nAfter talking to several Valdosta City Council members, he has<br \/>\nobserved that people make up their minds regardless of evidence.<br \/>\nSo he wants to know:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhat evidence would you need to see to conclude this is a bad idea?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/sets\/72157626353658596\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5308\/5560264612_85e20e0610_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nDr. George also gets at something even deeper that Council might<br \/>\nconsider a wakeup call:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe public outcry about this across the political spectrum, from conservative to liberal.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People against the biomass plant are not just black or white<br \/>\nor young or old or conservative or liberal or college professors<br \/>\nor unemployed: they are all of those things.<br \/>\nThe intransigence of elected and appointed officials is causing<br \/>\ncitizens to stand up and be heard on this and other issues around<br \/>\nthe county.<br \/>\nThis issue is serving as a catalyst for people to demand<br \/>\nmore transparent and responsive government.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cw7QwajSZ80\"><br \/>\nthe video:<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cw7QwajSZ80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nRegular meeting of the Valdosta City Council, 24 March 2011,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/small><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. George gets to the point! After talking to several Valdosta City Council members, he has observed that people make up their minds regardless of evidence. So he wants to know: What evidence would you need to see to conclude this is a bad idea? Dr. George also gets at something even deeper that Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,120,49,2,3,54,4769],"tags":[4790,8701,10,8702,12,7,4855,6,8726,2671],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-elections","category-government","category-transparency","category-valdosta-city-council","category-vcc-24-march-2011","tag-24-march-2011","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-mark-patrick-george","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council","tag-vcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","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=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}