{"id":8764,"date":"2023-11-27T06:57:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T05:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=8764"},"modified":"2023-11-27T06:57:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T05:57:16","slug":"how-humans-got-to-the-brink-of-a-collapsing-climate-the-long-push-for-progress-and-the-energy-that-drives-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/11\/27\/how-humans-got-to-the-brink-of-a-collapsing-climate-the-long-push-for-progress-and-the-energy-that-drives-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How did humans get to the brink of a collapsing climate? A long push for progress and the energy that drives it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>In the middle\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><span>record high temperatures<\/span><\/span><span>\u00a0,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><span>flooding<\/span><\/span><span> , <\/span><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><span>drought<\/span><\/span><span>\u00a0a\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><span>forest fires<\/span><\/span><span>\u00a0leaders convene for the next round of UN climate talks later this month aimed at curbing the centuries-old trend of humans spewing into the atmosphere\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><span>more and more greenhouse gases. <\/span><\/span><span>For hundreds of years, humans have shaped the world around them to their advantage: They have drained lakes to protect infrastructure, wealth, and people. They mined billions of tons of coal and then oil and gas to power empires and economies. The appeal of harnessing nature and burning fossil fuels as a path to prosperity jumped from nation to nation, each eager to secure their own energy. <\/span><span>People who claimed to have the power to control the nature and energy resources around them saw the environment as a tool to be used for progress, historians say.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><span>Over hundreds of years, this impulse also changed the climate <\/span><\/span><span>\u00a0planet - and brought its inhabitants to the brink of disaster. (<em>DANA BELTAJI<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid record-breaking temperatures, floods, droughts and wildfires, leaders are convening another round of UN climate talks later this month, aimed at curbing the centuries-long trend of humans spewing ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. For hundreds of years, humans have shaped the world around them to their advantage: They have drained lakes to protect infrastructure, wealth and people. They have dug billions [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}