{"id":1110425,"date":"2023-06-29T05:50:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T05:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=287561"},"modified":"2023-06-29T05:50:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T05:50:18","slug":"the-human-costs-of-global-warming-and-of-our-response-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/29\/the-human-costs-of-global-warming-and-of-our-response-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Human Costs of Global Warming \u2014 and of Our Response to It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several times in recent weeks I\u2019ve heard people suggest that Mother Nature has been\u00a0speaking to us\u00a0through that smoke endlessly drifting south from the still-raging Canadian wildfires. She\u2019s saying that she wants the coal, oil, and gas left in the ground, but I fear her message will have little more influence on climate policy than her previous ones did. After all, we essentially hit the \u201csnooze\u201d button on the\u00a0wakeup call\u00a0from Hurricane Katrina 18 years ago; ditto the disastrous Hurricane Sandy seven years later, as well as the\u00a0East Coast heat waves\u00a0and\u00a0West Coast wildfires\u00a0of more recent years; or the\u00a0startling overheating\u00a0of global waters and the sea level rise that goes with it. And that\u2019s just to begin an ever longer list of horrors. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/29\/the-human-costs-of-global-warming-and-of-our-response-to-it\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/29\/the-human-costs-of-global-warming-and-of-our-response-to-it\/\">The Human Costs of Global Warming \u2014 and of Our Response to It<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/29\/the-human-costs-of-global-warming-and-of-our-response-to-it\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several times in recent weeks I\u2019ve heard people suggest that Mother Nature has been\u00a0speaking to us\u00a0through that smoke endlessly drifting south from the still-raging Canadian wildfires. She\u2019s saying that she wants the coal, oil, and gas left in the grou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110433,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110425\/revisions\/1110433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}