{"id":909,"date":"2020-03-31T08:38:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T13:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=909"},"modified":"2020-03-31T08:38:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T13:38:17","slug":"the-climate-crisis-will-be-just-as-shockingly-abrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/03\/31\/the-climate-crisis-will-be-just-as-shockingly-abrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Climate Crisis Will Be Just as Shockingly Abrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-31-at-9.33.57-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-910\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-31-at-9.33.57-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1614\" height=\"1160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-31-at-9.33.57-AM.png 1614w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-31-at-9.33.57-AM-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-31-at-9.33.57-AM-768x552.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-31-at-9.33.57-AM-1024x736.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1614px) 100vw, 1614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The coronavirus isn\u2019t a reason to put climate policy on hold. It\u2019s a warning of the calamities ahead.<\/p>\n<p>As governments around the globe debate how to respond both to the coronavirus itself and the economic chaos it has unleashed, a theme that\u2019s come up over and over is how to prioritize what makes it into spending packages. In the United States, right-left fault lines have emerged over the question of bailing out emissions-heavy industries versus <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/156903\/golden-opportunity-green-stimulus\">a greener stimulus<\/a>. On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/26\/climate\/epa-coronavirus-pollution-rules.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> a large-scale rollback of environmental regulations as a response to the pandemic\u2014allowing many emitters to police themselves when it comes to pollution.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/615338\/coronavirus-emissions-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">some argue<\/a> that the oxygen in the climate debate should be taken up by the pandemic instead, the two issues aren\u2019t mutually exclusive, experts say. In a warming climate, <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/155746\/climate-change-already-hurting-kids-health\">more diseases are likely to emerge and spread<\/a>, making climate change action an important part of addressing future health crises. Moreover, the perception that climate change isn\u2019t as urgent as other crises may rely on misunderstandings about how climate-related changes will happen. The rate isn\u2019t constant: Instead, there\u2019s reason to believe everything from Arctic melt to Amazon deforestation might experience what\u2019s known as \u201ctipping points,\u201d where small changes in nature shift into rapid and irreversible damage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/157078\/climate-crisis-will-just-shockingly-abrupt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Republic<\/a> (also <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/03\/The-Climate-Crisis-Will-Be-Just-as-Shockingly-Abrupt-The-New-Republic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The coronavirus isn\u2019t a reason to put climate policy on hold. It\u2019s a warning of the calamities ahead. As governments around the globe debate how to respond both to the coronavirus itself and the economic chaos it has unleashed, <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/03\/31\/the-climate-crisis-will-be-just-as-shockingly-abrupt\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-owuenvs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}