{"id":7729,"date":"2019-02-18T09:34:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7729"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:34:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:34:51","slug":"6-compelling-reasons-climate-change-might-be-a-national-emergency-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7729","title":{"rendered":"6 Compelling Reasons Climate Change Might Be A National Emergency | Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Beyond fatalities, a 2018 government report suggests that climate change could harm or erode the U.S. economy and U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP). As much as I care about polar bears, I didn&#8217;t mention them once. Climate change certainly impacts them, and actions must be taken on their behalf too. However, I laid out six &#8220;kitchen table&#8221; or societally-relevant threats to all of us. For us and our kids, this is a national emergency too.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2019\/02\/15\/6-compelling-reasons-climate-change-might-be-a-national-emergency\/#36b60fec44c9\">6 Compelling Reasons Climate Change Might Be A National Emergency | Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Beyond fatalities, a 2018 government report suggests that climate change could harm or erode the U.S. economy and U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP). As much as I care about polar bears, I didn&#8217;t mention them once. Climate change certainly impacts them, and actions must be taken on their behalf too. However, I laid out six [&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\/7729"}],"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=7729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7730,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729\/revisions\/7730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}