{"id":1348,"date":"2010-01-17T14:17:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T14:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2010-11-01T14:23:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T14:23:13","slug":"biodiversity-destruction-a-problem-of-too-many-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/biodiversity-destruction-a-problem-of-too-many-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodiversity destruction a problem of too many people."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8461727.stm\">viewpoint<\/a> by Hilary Benn that biodiversity is nearing a point f no return is another harbinger of pain.\u00a0 The solution\u00a0 &#8211; reduce the human population &#8211; is discussed by those commenting, but remains a taboo subject for politicians.\u00a0 Other parts of the solution to turning back humanity&#8217;s footprint, like reducing consumption and pollution, are part of the system change that are inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8461727.stm\">Biodiversity nears &#8216;point of no return&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The viewpoint by Hilary Benn that biodiversity is nearing a point f no return is another harbinger of pain.\u00a0 The solution\u00a0 &#8211; reduce the human population &#8211; is discussed by those commenting, but remains a taboo subject for politicians.\u00a0 Other parts of the solution to turning back humanity&#8217;s footprint, like reducing consumption and pollution, are &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/biodiversity-destruction-a-problem-of-too-many-people\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biodiversity destruction a problem of too many people.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-lK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","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=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}