{"id":1019135,"date":"2024-02-06T07:16:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=1019135"},"modified":"2024-02-16T07:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T07:03:28","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-we-can-create-a-better-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/environment\/letters-to-the-editor-we-can-create-a-better-future","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: We can create a better future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can either predict our future or create one. Our prediction keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees C does not avoid altogether deadly heat. This is an easy prediction to make, since we are already seeing evidence of it today. The 2003 European heat wave that saw 30,000 people perish was a sign of things to come. Recent studies suggest that we are now experiencing as many as five million deaths a year from heat stress and other dangerous weather extremes. Add in the additional 4 million deaths a year from air pollution generated by fossil fuel burning and that is nine million in one year. (Mann) Twice as many people died from human-induced climate change than from COVID-19. (Economist 2021)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can either predict our future or create one. Our prediction keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees C does not avoid altogether deadly heat. This is an easy prediction to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}