{"id":8302,"date":"2021-07-08T22:44:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T05:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=8302"},"modified":"2021-07-08T22:44:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T05:44:55","slug":"the-climate-crisis-will-create-two-classes-those-who-can-flee-and-those-who-cannot-peter-gleick-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=8302","title":{"rendered":"The climate crisis will create two classes: those who can flee, and those who cannot | Peter Gleick | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8216;&#8230;Worldwide, nearly 700 million people now live in low-lying coastal zones vulnerable to sea-level rise and coastal storms. That number could reach a billion by 2050. Island nations like the Maldives, Seychelles, Kiribati and others could be completely wiped out by rising seas and storms. Even a rise of only a meter (39in), almost certainly unavoidable now, will displace millions of people in Florida and along the Gulf coast, causing trillions of dollars in damages and property loss.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/jul\/07\/global-heating-climate-crisis-heat-two-classes?fbclid=IwAR0_lX9LFJbQ8LxhJEAvPm__tsSXK27EC1Jg6vphJz3oUV7wrJL-DRsoslQ\">The climate crisis will create two classes: those who can flee, and those who cannot | Peter Gleick | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Worldwide, nearly 700 million people now live in low-lying coastal zones vulnerable to sea-level rise and coastal storms. That number could reach a billion by 2050. Island nations like the Maldives, Seychelles, Kiribati and others could be completely wiped out by rising seas and storms. Even a rise of only a meter (39in), almost certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302"}],"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=8302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8303,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions\/8303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}