{"id":38372,"date":"2019-05-13T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38372"},"modified":"2019-04-13T08:57:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T12:57:05","slug":"qotd-the-church-of-environmentalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/05\/13\/qotd-the-church-of-environmentalism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Church of Environmentalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Julian Simon, the economist who was legendarily skeptical about environmental doom, once posed a question at an environmental forum: &#8220;How many people here believe that the earth is increasingly polluted and that our natural resources are being exhausted?&#8221; Almost every hand shot up. He then said, &#8220;Is there any evidence that could dissuade you?&#8221; There was no response, so he asked again, &#8220;Is there any evidence I could give you \u2014 anything at all \u2014 that would lead you to reconsider these assumptions?&#8221; Again, no response. Simon concluded, &#8220;Well, excuse me. I&#8217;m not dressed for church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Carl, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claremont.org\/crb\/article\/the-church-of-environmentalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Church of Environmentalism&#8221;, <em>Claremont Review of Books<\/em><\/a>, 2016-02-25.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Simon, the economist who was legendarily skeptical about environmental doom, once posed a question at an environmental forum: &#8220;How many people here believe that the earth is increasingly polluted and that our natural resources are being exhausted?&#8221; Almost every hand shot up. He then said, &#8220;Is there any evidence that could dissuade you?&#8221; There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[65,57,53,41,16],"tags":[39,443],"class_list":["post-38372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-humour","category-politics","category-quotations","category-science","tag-junkscience","tag-pollution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9YU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38373,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38372\/revisions\/38373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}