{"id":17006,"date":"2020-10-31T14:38:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T20:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=17006"},"modified":"2020-10-31T14:38:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T20:38:44","slug":"perspective-is-all-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=17006","title":{"rendered":"Perspective is all important."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong class=\"\">COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS<\/strong><br \/><strong class=\"\">SO HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU THINK KNOW THIS?\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong class=\"\">THAT&#8217;S RIGHT, THE ONES WHO READ THIS!<\/strong><br \/><strong class=\"\"><br \/>How many coal plants are there in the world today?<\/strong><br \/><strong class=\"\"><br \/>The EU has 468 &#8211; building 27 more&#8230; Total\u00a0\u00a0495<\/strong><br \/><strong class=\"\">Turkey has 56 &#8211; building 93 more&#8230; Total\u00a0\u00a0149<\/strong><br \/><strong class=\"\">South Africa has 79 &#8211; building 24 more&#8230; Total\u00a0\u00a0103<\/strong><br \/><strong class=\"\">India has 589 &#8211; building 446 more&#8230; Total\u00a0\u00a01035<\/strong><br \/><strong class=\"\">Philippines has 19 &#8211; building 60 more&#8230; Total\u00a0\u00a079<\/strong><br \/><strong class=\"\">South Korea has 58 &#8211; building 26 more&#8230; Total\u00a084\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong class=\"\">Japan has 90 &#8211; building 45 more&#8230; Total\u00a0135<\/strong><br \/><strong class=\"\"><br \/>China has 2,363 &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>building 1,171 more.. Total\u00a0\u00a03,534<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"\">That&#8217;s&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><strong class=\"\">5,615<\/strong><strong class=\"\">projected coal powered plants in just<\/strong><strong class=\"\">8<\/strong><strong class=\"\">countries<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br class=\"\"\/><strong class=\"\"><br class=\"\"\/><\/strong><strong class=\"\">USA has 15 &#8211; building 0 more&#8230;Total&nbsp;<\/strong><strong class=\"\">15<\/strong><br class=\"\"\/><strong class=\"\">&#8220;green new deal&#8221; wants to shut down those 15 plants in order to &#8220;save&#8221; the&nbsp;<\/strong><br class=\"\"\/><strong class=\"\">planet.<\/strong><br class=\"\"\/><strong class=\"\"><br class=\"\"\/><\/strong><strong class=\"\">This is EXCELLENT!!&nbsp; I knew the rough idea about the number of coal plants, but had not yet seen actual numbers until now.<\/strong><br class=\"\"\/><strong class=\"\"><br class=\"\"\/><\/strong><strong class=\"\">This makes the point.&nbsp; Whatever the USA does or doesn&#8217;t do won&#8217;t make a Tinker&#8217;s Dam regarding CO2 unless the rest of the world, especially China and India reduce coal-fired power plants as well.<\/strong><br class=\"\"\/><strong class=\"\"><br class=\"\"\/><\/strong><strong class=\"\">The whole &#8220;global warming&#8221; and &#8220;climate change&#8221; gambits&nbsp;<u class=\"\">&nbsp;are to create a *supposedly* sound, scientific basis to justify a federal government power-grab and the passage of MORE laws to increase taxes and increased control of the privately owned power industry and its distribution.<\/u>&nbsp; Never forget the *main* motivation<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COAL FIRED POWER PLANTSSO HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU THINK KNOW THIS?\u00a0THAT&#8217;S RIGHT, THE ONES WHO READ THIS!How many coal plants are there in the world today?The EU has 468 &#8211; building 27 more&#8230; Total\u00a0\u00a0495Turkey has 56 &#8211; building 93 more&#8230; Total\u00a0\u00a0149South Africa has 79 &#8211; building 24 more&#8230; Total\u00a0\u00a0103India has 589 &#8211; building 446 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=17006\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perspective is all important.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17007,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006\/revisions\/17007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}