{"id":3323,"date":"2006-09-29T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:56:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:56:31","slug":"this-is-why-western-civilisation-will-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3323","title":{"rendered":"This is why western civilisation will collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>A letter published in &#8216;The Courier&#8217;, the Mersea Island paper, 29 September 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Why have we forgotten coal?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I have given some thought to the ceased power station at Bradwell and of others around the country. I live in sight of Bradwell and there is now talk of it being renewed. I am thinking of coal&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span>Any smoke would be carried away with the prevailing winds, towards the channel&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span>I personally say that coal is the only answer to getting electricity from Bradwell or anywhere else avoiding nuclear rods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if we use coal, Bradwell will be under several metres of water, rendering the whole debate null and void. Am I disordered for finding this letter intensely depressing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter published in &#8216;The Courier&#8217;, the Mersea Island paper, 29 September 2006. &#8220;Why have we forgotten coal?&#8221; I have given some thought to the ceased power station at Bradwell and of others around the country. I live in sight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3323\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-RB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6793,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions\/6793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}