{"id":22181,"date":"2017-11-08T10:15:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T09:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22181"},"modified":"2017-11-08T10:15:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T09:15:44","slug":"reasons-to-be-cheerful-the-seven-megatrends-that-could-beat-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22181","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to be cheerful: the seven megatrends that could beat global warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; a series of fast-moving global megatrends, spurred by <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/nov\/02\/huge-private-sector-investment-puts-paris-climate-target-in-reach-says-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">trillion-dollar investments<\/a>, indicates that humanity might be able to avert the worst impacts of global warming. From trends already at full steam, including renewable energy, to those just now hitting the big time, such as mass-market electric cars, to those just emerging, such as plant-based alternatives to meat, these trends show that greenhouse gas emissions can be halted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we were seeing linear progress, I would say good, but we\u2019re not going to make it in time,\u201d says [Christiana] Figueres [the former UN climate chief ], now the convener of the <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mission2020.global\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Mission 2020 initiative<\/a>, which warns that the world has only three years to get carbon emissions on a downward curve and on the way to beating global warming. \u201cBut the fact is we are seeing progress that is growing exponentially, and that is what gives me the most reason for hope.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the opening to an encouraging feature in today&#8217;s &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper. You can read about the seven megatrends\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/nov\/08\/seven-megatrends-that-could-beat-global-warming-climate-change?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; a series of fast-moving global megatrends, spurred by trillion-dollar investments, indicates that humanity might be able to avert the worst impacts of global warming. From trends already at full steam, including renewable energy, to those just now hitting the big time, such as mass-market electric cars, to those just emerging, such as plant-based alternatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22181"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22186,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22181\/revisions\/22186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}