{"id":10940,"date":"2019-01-23T21:34:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T20:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=10940"},"modified":"2019-01-23T21:34:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T20:34:19","slug":"from_awareness_to_panic_but_little_action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/01\/23\/from_awareness_to_panic_but_little_action\/","title":{"rendered":"From awareness to panic but little action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This day ten years ago I noted that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2009\/01\/21\/the_emergence_of_the_idea_of_global_warming\/\">people were starting to pay attention to global warming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years later we&#8217;ve gone from attention to climate anxiety. Tens of thousands of fruit bats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-46859000\">dropped dead from a single heat wave<\/a>, literally dropping from the trees by the dozens. Another heat wave going on right now is so bad that <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/18\/australia\/australia-heat-wave-peak-intl\/index.html\">fruit is cooking on the trees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And what are we doing? Still mining and burning coal. Still driving gasoline powered cars, and buying more of them. Still flying to Thailand to &#8220;treat yourself&#8221;. Still waiting for someone else to do something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This day ten years ago I noted that people were starting to pay attention to global warming. Ten years later we&#8217;ve gone from attention to climate anxiety. Tens of thousands of fruit bats dropped dead from a single heat wave, literally dropping from the trees by the dozens. Another heat wave going on right now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10943,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions\/10943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}