{"id":1749,"date":"2015-11-15T12:26:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T12:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landwaveae.com\/Folio\/blog\/the-weight-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2015-11-21T13:59:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T13:59:09","slug":"the-weight-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/Folio\/gray\/2015\/11\/15\/the-weight-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weight of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"Insight into the complexities of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/08\/24\/the-weight-of-the-world\r\n<blockquote>\u201cWhere capital goes over the next fifteen years is going to decide whether we\u2019re actually able to address climate change and what kind of a century we are going to have,\u201d she said. She urged all those present to take this into account when making their own investment decisions, and to do so publicly: \u201cWhat we truly need is to create a \u2018surround sound\u2019 where, no matter what sector you turn to, there is a signal saying, \u2018Folks, we are moving toward a low-carbon economy. It is irreversible; it is unstoppable. So get on the bandwagon.\u2019 \u201d\r\n\r\n&#8211; Christiana Figueres<\/blockquote>\r\n<blockquote>The debate over what to do\u2014or not to do\u2014about global warming has always been, at its core, an economic one. Since the start of the industrial revolution, growth has been accompanied\u2014indeed, made possible\u2014by rising emissions. Hence the reluctance of most nations to commit to cutting carbon. But what if growth and emissions could be uncoupled?\r\n\r\nIn some parts of Europe, what has been called \u201cconscious uncoupling\u201d is already well along. Sweden, one of the few countries that tax carbon, has reduced its emissions by about twenty-three per cent in the past twenty-five years. During that same period, its economy has grown by more than fifty-five per cent. Last year, perhaps for the first time since the invention of the steam engine, global emissions remained flat even as the global economy grew, by about three per cent.\r\n\r\n&#8211; New Yorker Magazine, The Weight of the World, Elizabeth Kolbert, August 2015<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\nGrowth\/emissions graph image from the New Yorker ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Insight into the complexities of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/Folio\/gray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/Folio\/gray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/Folio\/gray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/Folio\/gray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/Folio\/gray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/Folio\/gray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/Folio\/gray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/Folio\/gray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/Folio\/gray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/Folio\/gray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/Folio\/gray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}