{"id":1810,"date":"2010-01-09T07:40:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2010-01-09T07:40:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T14:40:13","slug":"canaries-and-more-in-the-coalmine-that-is-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/01\/09\/canaries-and-more-in-the-coalmine-that-is-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Canaries (and more) in the coalmine that is Earth."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Atwood on <a href=\"http:\/\/m.guardian.co.uk\/?id=102202&#038;story=http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2010\/jan\/09\/margaret-atwood-birds-review\">why<\/a> we should not assume any bird species will survive without our help: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One more statistic: according to Al Gore, 97% of charitable giving goes to human causes. Of the remaining 3%, half goes to pets. That leaves 1\u00bd% devoted to the rest of nature \u2013 including the crisis-ridden oceans, the eroding, drying, or flooding land and the shrinking biosphere on which our lives depend. How crazy are we?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if pet owners could contribute to such causes via their purchases of certain brands of pet products? If it&#8217;s working for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workingassets.com\/\">Working Assets<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Atwood on why we should not assume any bird species will survive without our help: One more statistic: according to Al Gore, 97% of charitable giving goes to human causes. Of the remaining 3%, half goes to pets. That leaves 1\u00bd% devoted to the rest of nature \u2013 including the crisis-ridden oceans, the eroding,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}