{"id":2350,"date":"2010-03-15T10:17:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/03\/now-cocaine-is-causing-global-warming-al-gores-college-carbon-footprint-estimate-revised-upward\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T10:20:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:20:53","slug":"now-cocaine-is-causing-global-warming-al-gores-carbon-footprint-from-college-revised-upward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/15\/now-cocaine-is-causing-global-warming-al-gores-carbon-footprint-from-college-revised-upward\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Cocaine is Causing Global Warming. Al Gore&#8217;s Carbon Footprint From College Revised Upward."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/top-stories\/2010\/03\/03\/cocaine-users-making-global-warming-worse-115875-22081755\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Mirror UK<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Cocaine users &#8216;making global warming worse&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!-- font resizer --><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-date\"> \t \tBy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/authors\/bob-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"i-author\">Bob Roberts<\/a> \t \t \t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/top-stories\/2010\/03\/03\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"i-date\" title=\"Find all articles published on 3\/03\/2010 to the Top Stories section\">3\/03\/2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cocaine users were last night accused of helping to make global warming worse.<\/p>\n<p>MPs on the home affairs select committee said the drug was devastating Colombian rainforests because trees are knocked down to grow coca plants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2007\/06\/29\/friday_photo_the_effects_of_cocaine_on_dutch_agriculture\" title=\"image courtesy of Foreign Policy\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/files\/images\/cornfield.preview.jpg\" alt=\"image courtesy of Foreign Policy\" title=\"image courtesy of Foreign Policy\" height=\"640\" width=\"472\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Group chairman Keith Vaz said: &#8220;We were horrified to learn for every few lines of cocaine snorted in a London club, four square metres of rainforest is destroyed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Un Office on Drugs and Crime chief Antonio Maria Costa added: &#8220;Europeans know they shouldn&#8217;t buy blood diamonds or clothes made by slaves in sweatshops.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yet with cocaine the opposite occurs. Worse still, models who wouldn&#8217;t dare to wear a tiger fur coat show no qualms about flaunting their cocaine use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/top-stories\/2010\/03\/03\/cocaine-users-making-global-warming-worse-115875-22081755\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Mirror<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Mirror UK Cocaine users &#8216;making global warming worse&#8217; By Bob Roberts 3\/03\/2010 Cocaine users were last night accused of helping to make global warming worse. MPs on the home affairs select committee said the drug was devastating Colombian rainforests because trees are knocked down to grow coca plants. Group chairman Keith Vaz said: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}