{"id":23681,"date":"2010-09-16T13:06:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T21:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=23681"},"modified":"2010-09-16T13:06:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T21:06:05","slug":"the-earth-doesnt-care-if-you-drive-a-hybrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=23681","title":{"rendered":"The Earth Doesn’t Care If You Drive A Hybrid"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Will writes for Newsweek<\/a>: The cover of The American Scholar quarterly carries an impertinent assertion: \u201cThe Earth Doesn\u2019t Care if You Drive a Hybrid.\u201d The essay inside is titled \u201cWhat the Earth Knows.\u201d What it knows, according to Robert B. Laughlin, co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics, is this: What humans do to, and ostensibly for, the earth does not matter in the long run, and the long run is what matters to the earth. <\/p>\n

…Damaging this old earth is, Laughlin says, \u201ceasier to imagine than it is to accomplish.\u201d There have been mass volcanic explosions, meteor impacts, \u201cand all manner of other abuses greater than anything people could inflict, and it\u2019s still here. It\u2019s a survivor.\u201d<\/p>\n

…Buy a hybrid, turn off your air conditioner, unplug your refrigerator, yank your phone charger from the wall socket\u2014such actions will \u201cleave the end result exactly the same.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Will writes for Newsweek: The cover of The American Scholar quarterly carries an impertinent assertion: \u201cThe Earth Doesn\u2019t Care if You Drive a Hybrid.\u201d The essay inside is titled \u201cWhat the Earth Knows.\u201d What it knows, according to Robert … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4074,3020],"tags":[23763,23762,23760,23764,23761,23765],"class_list":["post-23681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-george-will","category-green","tag-american-scholar","tag-meteor-impacts","tag-nobel-prize-in-physics","tag-old-earth","tag-volcanic-explosions","tag-wall-socket"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t