{"id":4372,"date":"2015-01-11T07:52:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T12:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2015-01-11T07:52:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T12:52:48","slug":"how-to-think-of-climate-change-on-a-small-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4372","title":{"rendered":"How to Think of Climate Change on a Small Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/rob-shirkey\/climate-change_b_6439788.html\" target=\"_blank\">How to Think of Climate Change on a Small Scale<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>When I used to live near the waterfront in Toronto&#8217;s east end, I would wake before dawn and go sit at the end of a breakwater to catch the sunrise. I would face the lake, close my eyes, and notice a subtle warmth on my left cheek as the sun would rise to the east. I did this fairly consistently for nearly a year before moving downtown last summer to be closer to my office.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about to head to British Columbia and Washington State to connect with politicians about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ourhorizon.org\/\" target=\"_hplink\">my project<\/a>\u00a0to get climate change labels on gas pumps and have already received a few inquiries about jurisdictional matters. While I&#8217;ve written a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ourhorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Face-The-Change-Report-for-Councillors.pdf\" target=\"_hplink\">40-page legal report<\/a>\u00a0that canvasses these issues (and a very prominent environmental lawyer explored the same\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/envirolaw.com\/warning-labels-gasoline\/\" target=\"_hplink\">in an article<\/a>\u00a0for Municipal World), I can&#8217;t help but wonder if we&#8217;re focusing on the wrong part of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>My morning practice shifted my perspective in a way that led to a different focus.<\/p>\n<p>During my mornings at the breakwater, I noticed how the sun would come up over a different point on the horizon throughout the year. I also grew more of an awareness that the sun wasn&#8217;t rising in the east but that the Earth was rotating eastwards to reveal the sun. It&#8217;s one thing to read about this in school and understand it intellectually, but it&#8217;s something entirely different to appreciate it in this manner. As I sat there in what seemed like stillness, I began to get curious about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainstuffshow.com\/blog\/good-question-how-fast-are-you-moving-through-the-universe-right-now\/\" target=\"_hplink\">the speed<\/a>\u00a0at which our Earth moves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Think of Climate Change on a Small Scale When I used to live near the waterfront in Toronto&#8217;s east end, I would wake before dawn and go sit at the end of a breakwater to catch the sunrise. I would face the lake, close my eyes, and notice a subtle warmth on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2581,2580,141,369,2579],"class_list":["post-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-action","tag-advocacy","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-small-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4373,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions\/4373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}