{"id":26677,"date":"2019-02-26T22:14:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=26677"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:14:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:14:17","slug":"the-ecological-impacts-of-a-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/02\/26\/the-ecological-impacts-of-a-border-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ecological Impacts of a Border Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Environmental Law Institute <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eli.org\/vibrant-environment-blog\/ecological-impacts-border-wall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Ecological Impacts of a Border Wall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOften lost in discussions of efficacy and payment relating to the proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall is what would happen to the environment if a concrete divider were placed across a nearly-2,000 mile swath of habitat. While wall-like barriers already stand on hundreds of miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, expanding to a full-border wall would constitute a massive transformation of the rest of the United States\u2019 southern borderlands, posing substantial threats to the wildlife that roam the area.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Law Institute has the article The Ecological Impacts of a Border Wall. Often lost in discussions of efficacy and payment relating to the proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall is what would happen to the environment if a concrete divider were placed across a nearly-2,000 mile swath of habitat. While wall-like barriers already stand on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26678,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26677\/revisions\/26678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}