{"id":58199,"date":"2016-04-01T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58199"},"modified":"2017-04-21T10:38:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:38:15","slug":"settled-science-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58199","title":{"rendered":"Settled Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid, the world’s social justice warrior crowd warned us that the world was headed for inevitable catastrophic famine. \u00a0Some of the very voices behind “global warming” today – Paul Ehrlich springs to mind – warned (and profited greatly from warning) us that India would be down to under 100 million people by 1990, and that Africa was going be pretty much revert to nature, its human inhabitants all starved out. \u00a0Even the US was going to be the subject of “inevitable” food riots by the mid-eighties.<\/p>\n

Naturally, the only possible remedy was to socialize the world economy.<\/p>\n

Today?<\/p>\n

People are wondering with a straight face if we have “too much food”<\/a>, as the world has more overweight than malnourished people for the first time in history.<\/p>\n

I fully expect to see a Kyoto Treaty for fat, sooner than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid, the world’s social justice warrior crowd warned us that the world was headed for inevitable catastrophic famine. \u00a0Some of the very voices behind “global warming” today – Paul Ehrlich springs to mind – warned (and profited greatly from warning) us that India would be down to under 100 million people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,49,374,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange","category-science","category-social-justice","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58200,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58199\/revisions\/58200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}