{"id":278,"date":"2013-04-08T23:42:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T03:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cstuart.ca\/?p=278"},"modified":"2014-03-11T12:57:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T16:57:44","slug":"china-and-a-carbon-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cstuart.ca\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"China and a Carbon Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gwynne Dyer writes that the Chinese government is to impose a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straight.com\/news\/358181\/gwynne-dyer-why-chinese-government-wants-carbon-tax\">carbon tax<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 This has to be very good news indeed: it will put\u00a0 pressure on every\u00a0 government that has avoided action using the excuse that China has not moved seriously on the question.\u00a0 It is a matter of survival for the Chinese as it is for all of us.\u00a0 In the Chinese context it is possible, even probable, that with a 2 degree rise in global temperature they will lose 38% of their food crops.\u00a0 Chinese leaders are, in Dyer&#8217;s words, &#8220;terrified&#8221;.\u00a0 In the meantime\u00a0 the Harper government continues to play the blind fool, dragging all of us along with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwynne Dyer writes that the Chinese government is to impose a carbon tax.\u00a0\u00a0 This has to be very good news indeed: it will put\u00a0 pressure on every\u00a0 government that has avoided action using the excuse that China has not moved seriously on the question.\u00a0 It is a matter of survival for the Chinese as it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cstuart.ca\/?p=278\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China and a Carbon Tax<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment-climate-change","category-goodnews","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uTkF-4u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cstuart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cstuart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cstuart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cstuart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cstuart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cstuart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/cstuart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cstuart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cstuart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cstuart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}