{"id":4469,"date":"2026-05-22T10:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:25:06","slug":"this-future-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4469","title":{"rendered":"This Future Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/JPA549.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"408\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/JPA549.jpg\" alt=\"Political Cartoon: This Future Sucks\" class=\"wp-image-4470\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/JPA549.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/JPA549-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent Michigan news headlines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganpublic.org\/environment-climate-change\/2026-05-18\/feds-renew-order-to-keep-j-h-campbell-coal-plant-open\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Feds renew order to keep J.H. Campbell coal plant open<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/kalamazoo\/2026\/03\/steam-billows-from-michigan-nuclear-energy-plant-marking-a-restart-milestone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam billows from Michigan nuclear energy plant, marking a restart milestone<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bridgemi.com\/michigan-environment-watch\/michigan-plans-to-reissue-line-5-permit-amid-federal-review-court-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michigan plans to reissue Line 5 permit amid federal review, court fight<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So here we are in 2026, and our discussion about energy seems to revolve mostly around technologies and solutions from previous centuries. Worse, technologies and solutions that actually have arrived (solar, wind, geothermal, etc.) are still put by many in the &#8220;not quite ready&#8221; category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My younger self would be disappointed. It&#8217;s not like I really expected flying cars by this point, but cleaner, cheaper energy did seem like an achievable goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Michigan news headlines: So here we are in 2026, and our discussion about energy seems to revolve mostly around technologies and solutions from previous centuries. Worse, technologies and solutions that actually have arrived (solar, wind, geothermal, etc.) are still put by many in the &#8220;not quite ready&#8221; category. My younger self would be disappointed. [&hellip;]<\/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-4469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4472,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}