{"id":146411,"date":"2022-09-14T21:22:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T02:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/voices-alarm-bells-are-going-off-across-the-world-but-were-barely-listening"},"modified":"2022-09-14T21:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T02:22:47","slug":"voices-alarm-bells-are-going-off-across-the-world-but-were-barely-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/voices-alarm-bells-are-going-off-across-the-world-but-were-barely-listening","title":{"rendered":"Voices: Alarm bells are going off across the world \u2014 but we\u2019re barely listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/voices-alarm-bells-are-going-off-across-the-world-but-were-barely-listening.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it\u2019s easy to miss the forest for the trees. We spend so much time on what\u2019s in front of us, we can miss the bigger picture. Alarm bells are going off across the world. We need to hear them.<\/p>\n<p>An extreme heatwave and drought has been roasting China for 70 days straight, something that \u201chas no parallel in modern record-keeping in China, or elsewhere around the world for that matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next door, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/24\/asia\/pakistan-floods-monsoon-rain-deaths-intl\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> in Pakistan<\/a>, a \u201ctorrential downpour of biblical proportions\u201d has so far killed 900 people and destroyed nearly 100,000 homes. Its neighbour India has suffered 200 heatwave days this year so far, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/climate-change\/news\/india-heatwave-days-2022-comparison-b2133845.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> compared to just 32 last year<\/a>. South Korea received it\u2019s the heaviest hourly downpour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/09\/south-korea-flood-2022-weather-record-rain-seoul\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> in Seoul for 80 years<\/a>, flooding the capital and leaving 50 cities and towns with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2022_South_Korean_floods\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> landslide warnings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it\u2019s easy to miss the forest for the trees. We spend so much time on what\u2019s in front of us, we can miss the bigger picture. Alarm bells are going off across the world. We need to hear them. An extreme heatwave and drought has been roasting China for 70 days straight, something that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146411","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}