{"id":7810,"date":"2019-04-23T11:38:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7810"},"modified":"2019-04-23T11:38:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:38:20","slug":"its-not-coming-its-here-bill-mckibben-on-our-new-climate-reality-literary-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7810","title":{"rendered":"It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Not Coming, It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Here: Bill McKibben on Our New Climate Reality| Literary Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;<em>Climate change\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>has become such a familiar term that we tend to read past it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u2019s part of our mental furniture, like\u00c2\u00a0<em>urban sprawl\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>or\u00c2\u00a0<em>gun violence<\/em>. So, let\u2019s remember exactly what we\u2019ve been up to, because it should fill us with awe; it\u2019s by far the biggest thing humans have ever done. Those of us in the fossil fuel-consuming classes have, over the last 200 years, dug up immense quantities of coal and gas and oil, and burned them: in car motors, basement furnaces, power plants, steel mills. When we burn them, the carbon atoms combine with oxygen atoms in the air to produce carbon dioxide. The molecular structure of carbon dioxide traps heat that would otherwise have radiated back out to space. We have, in other words, changed the energy balance of our planet, the amount of the sun\u2019s heat that is returned to space.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/its-not-coming-its-here-bill-mckibben-on-our-new-climate-reality\/\">It\u2019s Not Coming, It\u2019s Here: Bill McKibben on Our New Climate Reality | Literary Hub<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Climate change\u00c2\u00a0has become such a familiar term that we tend to read past it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u2019s part of our mental furniture, like\u00c2\u00a0urban sprawl\u00c2\u00a0or\u00c2\u00a0gun violence. So, let\u2019s remember exactly what we\u2019ve been up to, because it should fill us with awe; it\u2019s by far the biggest thing humans have ever done. Those of us in the fossil fuel-consuming [&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\/7810"}],"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=7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7811,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions\/7811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}