{"id":6929,"date":"2017-04-22T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=6929"},"modified":"2017-04-22T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T19:35:08","slug":"the-planet-cant-stand-this-presidency-bill-mckibben-new-york-times-opinion-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=6929","title":{"rendered":"The Planet Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Stand This Presidency &#8211; Bill McKibben, New York Times Opinion Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;The effects will be felt not immediately but over decades and centuries and millenniums. More ice will melt, and that will cut the planet\u2019s reflectivity, amplifying the warming; more permafrost will thaw, and that will push more methane into the atmosphere, trapping yet more heat. The species that go extinct as a result of the warming won\u2019t mostly die in the next four years, but they will die. The nations that will be submerged won\u2019t sink beneath the waves on his watch, but they will sink. No president will be able to claw back this time \u00e2\u20ac\u201d crucial time, since we\u2019re right now breaking the back of the climate system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/21\/opinion\/the-planet-cant-stand-this-presidency.html?_r=1\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;The effects will be felt not immediately but over decades and centuries and millenniums. More ice will melt, and that will cut the planet\u2019s reflectivity, amplifying the warming; more permafrost will thaw, and that will push more methane into the atmosphere, trapping yet more heat. The species that go extinct as a result of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6930,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions\/6930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}