{"id":118450,"date":"2021-01-12T23:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T07:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/david-attenboroughs-grim-extinction-warning"},"modified":"2021-01-12T23:23:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T07:23:21","slug":"david-attenboroughs-grim-extinction-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/david-attenboroughs-grim-extinction-warning","title":{"rendered":"David Attenborough\u2019s grim extinction warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQnDVqGIv4s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sir David Attenborough confronts viewers with some of the most shocking images of his 66-year BBC career as he outlines how animals are facing mass extinction because of humans.<\/p>\n<p>Upsetting scenes in his new series <i>A Perfect Planet<\/i>, on TV in Britain now and airing on Channel 9 later this year, show a parched and psychologically damaged baby elephant \u2013 its adult relatives killed by extreme droughts \u2013 cry out as rescuers squirt water into its mouth.<\/p>\n<p>A koala, its fur and paws scorched, crawls through burning undergrowth during last year\u2019s Australian bushfires before it, too, is saved and bandaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir David Attenborough confronts viewers with some of the most shocking images of his 66-year BBC career as he outlines how animals are facing mass extinction because of humans. Upsetting scenes in his new series A Perfect Planet, on TV in Britain now and airing on Channel 9 later this year, show a parched and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}