{"id":481,"date":"2008-08-12T08:17:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T08:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2008-08-12T08:17:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T08:17:06","slug":"humanity-has-been-wiping-out-other-species-for-millenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/humanity-has-been-wiping-out-other-species-for-millenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanity has been wiping out other species for millenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity has been wiping out other species for millennia, we&#8217;re just doing it faster now.<\/p>\n<p>New research using the latest technology shows that<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7555206.stm\"> large animals of prehistoric times were made extinct by over hunting by humans<\/a>.\u00a0 Back then it might have been excusable to wipe out a species because we did not have the experience or perspective to consider the consequences of our actions.<\/p>\n<p>Today it is inexcusable that <a href=\"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=475\">we are wiping out mammals<\/a> &#8211; we know we&#8217;re doing it, we know its wrong and bad and we know how to stop doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity has been wiping out other species for millennia, we&#8217;re just doing it faster now. New research using the latest technology shows that large animals of prehistoric times were made extinct by over hunting by humans.\u00a0 Back then it might have been excusable to wipe out a species because we did not have the experience &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/humanity-has-been-wiping-out-other-species-for-millenia\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Humanity has been wiping out other species for millenia<\/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":[6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-7L","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","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=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}