{"id":6941,"date":"2019-05-13T15:26:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T19:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=6941"},"modified":"2019-05-13T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T20:37:21","slug":"a-wake-up-call-from-bill-nye-the-planets-on-fing-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2019\/05\/13\/a-wake-up-call-from-bill-nye-the-planets-on-fing-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"A wake-up call from Bill Nye: &#8220;The planet&#8217;s on f***ing fire!!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another ho hum Monday afternoon. Someone famous died today at 97, and then the<br \/>\nGod, the legend <em><strong>BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! Bill Nye the Science Guy<\/strong><\/em> gets hired by John Oliver to do a nearly 40-second skit on why climate change is not something we can ignore anymore&#8230; by doing the most badass thing ever (lighting a kerosene-coated globe of the Earth with a blowtorch and saying &#8220;the planet&#8217;s on fucking fire!&#8221;)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Ofkshdh.png\" width=\"572\" height=\"320\" \/><br \/>\nHe goes further on with comparing the three things that can put out a fire to <em>A Green New Deal<\/em>, saying &#8220;are any of them free? NO! Of COURSE not! NOTHING is free, you<br \/>\nIDIOT!!&#8221;<br \/>\nOOF 100. When Bill Nye is pissed, you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">know<\/span> it&#8217;s time to wake up and do something about climate change. Of course, not everyone feels this and thinks he should go back to teaching science. But I applaud the skit and wish the same message (and similar messages) could be hammered into the minds of the government (especially Trump).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another ho hum Monday afternoon. Someone famous died today at 97, and then the God, the legend BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! Bill Nye the Science Guy gets hired by John Oliver to do a nearly 40-second skit on why climate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2019\/05\/13\/a-wake-up-call-from-bill-nye-the-planets-on-fing-fire\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6942,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions\/6942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}