{"id":752,"date":"2009-08-19T04:14:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T09:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/?p=752"},"modified":"2009-08-19T04:15:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T09:15:39","slug":"an-effective-solution-to-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/19\/environment\/an-effective-solution-to-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"An Effective Solution to Global Warming&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and <a href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/russia\/economics\/13-08-2009\/108831-population-0\">environmental degradation <\/a>in general, for that matter.  The U.S. and Europe could have done more than a hundred Kyoto treaties to fight global climate change by ending immigration, both legal and illegal.  Like nuclear power, however, while effective, that would not have been politically correct.  Remember, when it comes to the saviors of the environment, the pose is everything.  <\/p>\n<p>Russia does not enjoy the luxury of existing on an island, like Japan.  As a result, she now faces the existential threat of massive immigration from Asia.  Her future will depend on how she meets the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>How do you like Pravda&#8217;s new look, by the way?  It puts the National Enquirer <a href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/science\/mysteries\/08-06-2009\/107738-skulls_mars-0\">in the shade<\/a>.  Life at the CIA&#8217;s Russia desk must be a lot more entertaining these days.  I especially liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moscowtopnews.com\/?area=postView&#038;id=886\">this article<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-753\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ekranoplan.jpg\" alt=\"Soviet Ekranoplan\" title=\"ekranoplan\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" class=\"size-full wp-image-753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ekranoplan.jpg 500w, https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ekranoplan-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soviet Ekranoplan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=An+Effective+Solution+to+Global+Warming...\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/19\/environment\/an-effective-solution-to-global-warming\/\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and environmental degradation in general, for that matter. The U.S. and Europe could have done more than a hundred Kyoto treaties to fight global climate change by ending immigration, both legal and illegal. Like nuclear power, however, while effective, that would not have been politically correct. Remember, when it comes to the saviors of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/19\/environment\/an-effective-solution-to-global-warming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Effective Solution to Global Warming&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global-warming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwEq0-c8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}