{"id":278,"date":"2019-03-09T21:01:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T02:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/?p=278"},"modified":"2019-03-09T21:01:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T02:01:06","slug":"is-climate-change-more-like-an-asteroid-or-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2019\/03\/09\/is-climate-change-more-like-an-asteroid-or-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Is climate change more like an asteroid or diabetes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebreakthrough.org\/articles\/is-climate-change-like-diabetes?utm_source=Breakthrough+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=a770d31261-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_02_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_49b872540e-a770d31261-181027933\">The Breakthrough Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is climate change more like an asteroid or diabetes? Last month, one of us argued at Slate that climate advocates should resist calls to declare a national climate emergency because climate change was more like \u201cdiabetes for the planet\u201d than an asteroid. The diabetes metaphor was surprisingly controversial. Climate change can\u2019t be managed or lived with, many argued in response; it is an existential threat to human societies that demands an immediate cure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Breakthrough Institute Is climate change more like an asteroid or diabetes? Last month, one of us argued at Slate that climate advocates should resist calls to declare a national climate emergency because climate change was more like \u201cdiabetes for the planet\u201d than an asteroid. The diabetes metaphor was surprisingly controversial. Climate change can\u2019t be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}