{"id":28802,"date":"2010-10-11T17:16:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/midterm-elections-important-for-science-and-climate\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T17:16:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:16:39","slug":"midterm-elections-important-for-science-and-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/midterm-elections-important-for-science-and-climate.php","title":{"rendered":"Midterm Elections Important for Science and Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like American politicians find it more difficult to do things that other countries are already doing, or have already done. Like how to transmit solar and other types of renewable energy. South Korea and other countries are doing it,\u00a0 while our politicians fight about &#8220;affording it&#8221; and whether it&#8217;s even possible.<\/p>\n<p>Solar and thermoelectric power transmission towers in South Korea<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Transmission towers carrying solar and thermoelectric power from the Korea South East Power Co. (KOSEP) plant are seen in Ansan, about 80 km (50 miles) west of Seoul, September 30, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s technology giants are behind the pace in getting on the $35 billion global solar energy bandwagon, but are now making up for lost time, snapping up assets overseas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>World Environment News.\u00a0 The upcoming midterm election will be crucial for renewable energy.\u00a0 We need to put people into the U.S. Congress who understand science, who understand the ramifications of climate change, and understand the huge importance of investing in renewable energy. Let&#8217;s keep the climate change deniers (aka the Tea Party candidates and many in the GOP) where they belong &#8212; on the fringes of society and not infiltrating our government with their anti-science viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p>Vote accordingly this November.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t sit this one out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like American politicians find it more difficult to do things that other countries are already doing, or have already done. Like how to transmit solar and other types of renewable energy. South Korea and other countries are doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/midterm-elections-important-for-science-and-climate.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}