{"id":1147,"date":"2003-04-22T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-22T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2021-05-24T02:13:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T06:13:10","slug":"earth-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/04\/22\/earth-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

And beware genetically altered foods, too.<\/small><\/center><\/div>    It’s Earth Day. Time for our planet to make a wish and blow out all its refinery fires!
    Actually, that’s not a good metaphor since it’s not really the Earth’s birthday. It’s the day we set aside to pretend we care about the conditions of this great trailer park we live in. Believe it or not, it’s the thirty-third Earth Day, and after all that time you think you’d see some improvement around the place. As far as I can tell, it’s gotten worse. Around town there are fewer trees and more traffic; but at least it appears we’re going for the Guinness record in terms of new credit unions per capita.
    Is it really possible to think recycling your newspapers will help when there’s twice as much junk mail arriving at your doorstep? Will it make any difference when I finally get my hybrid car, knowing everyone else will be driving the biggest, heaviest, and fuel-inefficientest SUVs they can find? And is it really progress that we’ve gone from disposable lighters to disposable cell phones? A site called Earth Day Network has a list<\/a> of environmental problems on which we can take action. The length of the list is disheartening; and I bet it’s pretty much been the same list for many years.
    But, anyway, here are some photos of our big beautiful blue-green planet on the unfashionable western spiral arm of the galaxy, while we still have it.

The Pacific<\/b>


Antarctica and Africa<\/b>


Michigan, My Home<\/b>

Most images from FreeStockPhotos.com<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And beware genetically altered foods, too.     It’s Earth Day. Time for our planet to make a wish and blow out all its refinery fires!    Actually, that’s not a good metaphor since it’s not really the Earth’s birthday. … 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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-me","category-photos","category-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}