{"id":4866,"date":"2013-05-20T14:30:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T21:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2013-05-20T14:30:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T21:30:55","slug":"elizabeth-kolbert-obamas-keystone-decision-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=4866","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Kolbert: Obama\u2019s Keystone Decision : The New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;In rejecting Keystone, President Obama would not solve the underlying problem, which, as pipeline proponents correctly point out, is consumption. Nor would he halt exploitation of the tar sands. But he would put a brake on the process. After all, if getting tar-sands oil to China were easy, the Canadians wouldn\u2019t be applying so much pressure on the White House. Once Keystone is built, there will be no putting the tar back in the sands. The pipeline isn\u2019t inevitable, and it shouldn\u2019t be treated as such. It\u2019s just another step on the march to disaster. &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/comment\/2013\/05\/27\/130527taco_talk_kolbert?mbid=nl_Weekly%20(54)?mbid=social_retweet\">Elizabeth Kolbert: Obama\u2019s Keystone Decision : The New Yorker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;In rejecting Keystone, President Obama would not solve the underlying problem, which, as pipeline proponents correctly point out, is consumption. Nor would he halt exploitation of the tar sands. But he would put a brake on the process. After all, if getting tar-sands oil to China were easy, the Canadians wouldn\u2019t be applying so much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}