{"id":2629,"date":"2007-10-14T11:20:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T18:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/10\/14\/al-gore-is-not-running-for-president\/"},"modified":"2007-10-14T11:20:43","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T18:20:43","slug":"al-gore-is-not-running-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/10\/14\/al-gore-is-not-running-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Gore is not running for president"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to think about Jared Diamond’s expansive book Collapse<\/a> when thinking about Al Gore’s Nobel Prize Award.\u00c2\u00a0 We are dashing into a strange conceptual territory hereabouts, connecting Global Warming with “Peace”: all good and well — indeed, just as sensible as the founder of the micro-loan<\/a>, with its equal “two degrees of seperation” from the focus of “Peace” .<\/p>\n

A fun game might be to google up (or search a blogging database) “Yassir Arafat” and “Al Gore” and see the slurring of Gore as “sharing the same award with Arafat”.\u00c2\u00a0 It will be more than the number who did so with Jimmy Carter, merely due to the proliferation of the Internet — more blogs (even the greatest part of growth is spam-bots) — but with the same idea in mind.\u00c2\u00a0 Arafat’s Award, alongside his two Israeli counterparts, was an effort in political prodding.\u00c2\u00a0 Which brings to mind the charge of this being a political slight against the current American administration, purely a political hit — one can argure a bit more pursuasively that Carter’s was, and one can argue a couple others.\u00c2\u00a0 But it is akin to stating that Martin Luther King, Jr’s award was an attack on the political maverns of the Southern United States — this too shall wear off.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the trendline has the “skeptics” on global warming sidelined further and further into the margins, as effects move on from the poles (We watch Russia take renewed interest in claiming the North Pole for excavated oil deposits, for instance).\u00c2\u00a0 And Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had to think about Jared Diamond’s expansive book Collapse when thinking about Al Gore’s Nobel Prize Award.\u00c2\u00a0 We are dashing into a strange conceptual territory hereabouts, connecting Global Warming with “Peace”: all good and well — indeed, just as sensible as the founder of the micro-loan, with its equal “two degrees of seperation” from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}