{"id":6146,"date":"2024-08-20T19:39:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T19:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=6146"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:13:46","slug":"letters-we-need-to-protect-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/letters-we-need-to-protect-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: We need to protect the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6146\" class=\"elementor elementor-6146\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e7cef67 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1e7cef67\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-72596240 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"72596240\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Last week we traveled from Dallas to Fresno on American airlines.<\/p><p>I enjoy flying over the southwest. You can see the effects from millions of years of change on the surface of the High Desert. I noticed a volcano cone, and a bit west was a great wall. Looked like the Great Wall of China. It was north-south following the tectonic plates, breached by water. I could see the erosion scars as the water rushed through. Further west was another ridge that was the shoreline of a huge lake.<\/p><p>Last night on the news was a story of college kids going to D.C. to discuss politics in a face-to-face setting instead of on social media. Their most concern was climate change. They are alarmed and that\u2019s good. We need to be concerned, but not alarmed.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we traveled from Dallas to Fresno on American airlines. I enjoy flying over the southwest. You can see the effects from millions of years of change on the surface of the High Desert. I noticed a volcano cone, and a bit west was a great wall. Looked like the Great Wall of China. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[36,53],"class_list":["post-6146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-environment","tag-travel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}