{"id":1098,"date":"2009-11-03T09:49:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T09:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2009-11-03T09:49:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T09:49:13","slug":"extinction-threat-to-humans-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/extinction-threat-to-humans-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Extinction threat to humans growing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headline might be more dramatic than the original: &#8220;Species&#8217; extinction threat grows&#8221;.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s more to the point.\u00a0 If they are dying faster, nature is changing faster.\u00a0 Humans can not adapt to an environment much different from the one we inhabit, especially in terms of temperature, moisture, oxygen.\u00a0 But mostly, we&#8217;ll just run out of food.\u00a0 Get the big picture.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"species extinction\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/2009\/red_list_extinction20091103.gif?resize=466%2C279\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our best chance of averting an ecological crisis is to eat less, consume less and reverse population growth voluntarily.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/\"> Red List of Threatened Species <\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iucn.org\/\"> IUCN <\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zsl.org\/\"> ZSL <\/a><\/div>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8338880.stm\">Species&#8217; extinction threat grows<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_pictures\/8339231.stm\">In pictures: Threatened species<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline might be more dramatic than the original: &#8220;Species&#8217; extinction threat grows&#8221;.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s more to the point.\u00a0 If they are dying faster, nature is changing faster.\u00a0 Humans can not adapt to an environment much different from the one we inhabit, especially in terms of temperature, moisture, oxygen.\u00a0 But mostly, we&#8217;ll just run out &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/extinction-threat-to-humans-growing\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Extinction threat to humans growing.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-living","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-hI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}