{"id":1509430,"date":"2024-02-20T17:48:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=573f5ee7b6639737453614f49d9d48d5"},"modified":"2024-02-20T17:48:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T17:48:13","slug":"hydropower-wont-solve-the-climate-crisis-but-new-dams-may-lead-to-water-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/20\/hydropower-wont-solve-the-climate-crisis-but-new-dams-may-lead-to-water-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydropower Won\u2019t Solve the Climate Crisis, But New Dams May Lead to Water Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a world of dangerous, deadly extremes. Record-breaking heat waves, intense drought, stronger hurricanes, unprecedented flash flooding. No corner of the planet will be spared the wrath of human-caused climate change and the earth&rsquo;s fresh water is already feeling the heat of this new reality. More than half of the world&rsquo;s lakes and two-thirds of its rivers are drying up...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/hydropower-wont-solve-the-climate-crisis-but-new-dams-may-lead-to-water-wars\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/hydropower-wont-solve-the-climate-crisis-but-new-dams-may-lead-to-water-wars\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers dry up while the superpowers jockey for position, hoping to control what remains of the world\u2019s resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5605,9656,267,46870,9657,4711,53472,1825],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509430"}],"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\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509431,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509430\/revisions\/1509431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}