{"id":1115,"date":"2011-01-23T11:39:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T18:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2011-05-17T12:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T19:30:32","slug":"adages-carbon-neutrality-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/adages-carbon-neutrality-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Adage&#8217;s Carbon-Neutrality Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1116\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/empcloth25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1116\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1116\" title=\"Commissioner Sheldon, Adage &amp; Simpson\" src=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/empcloth25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/empcloth25.jpg 500w, https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/empcloth25-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commissioner Sheldon admires Carbon-Neutrality by Adage &amp; Simpson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Like many of you, I grew up perplexed by the tale of\u00a0The Emperor&#8217;s New Clothes. \u00a0For those not familiar with the story, let me bring you up to speed: An emperor who cares more about clothes than his kingdom commissions two tailors who promise him the finest suit of clothes from the most beautiful cloth. This cloth, they tell him, is invisible to anyone too stupid\/misled to see it (when in reality the cloth is an artifice &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t exist.) The emperor is gulled by his own arrogance and greed; the con-artist tailors go on a spending spree.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1117\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/empcloth10txt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1117\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1117\" title=\"The Commissioner's new clothes\" src=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/empcloth10txt-1024x804.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/empcloth10txt-1024x804.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/empcloth10txt-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/empcloth10txt.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commissioner Sheldon buys Carbon-Neutrality regalia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But even as a youth, I imagined nobody could be THAT stupid, yet here I am, as an adult, witnessing it! \u00a0Adage and Simpson have harnessed the arrogance and greed found in Tim Sheldon (as well as Jay Hupp) for their own profit at the expense of the community.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/transitionculture.org\/2010\/09\/23\/bring-me-the-woodburning-stove-of-alfredo-garcia\/\">The Carbon-Neutrality Boondoggle Scam<\/a><\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of you, I grew up perplexed by the tale of\u00a0The Emperor&#8217;s New Clothes. \u00a0For those not familiar with the story, let me bring you up to speed: An emperor who cares more about clothes than his kingdom commissions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/adages-carbon-neutrality-myth\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}