{"id":150107,"date":"2022-11-14T13:33:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/earths-population-will-reach-8-billion-next-week-heres-what-that-means-for-our-planet"},"modified":"2022-11-14T13:33:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:33:29","slug":"earths-population-will-reach-8-billion-next-week-heres-what-that-means-for-our-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/earths-population-will-reach-8-billion-next-week-heres-what-that-means-for-our-planet","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s population will reach 8 billion next week \u2014 here\u2019s what that means for our planet"},"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\/Y6QLenwsOEs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There might be room for everyone, or not.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance, the connections between the world\u2019s growing population and climate change seem obvious. The more people we have on this planet, the larger their collective impact on the climate.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back to the Stone Age.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Orbon Alija\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>However, a closer look with a longer time horizon reveals relationships between population size and climate change that can help us better understand both humanity\u2019s predicament as the global population nears 8 billion people \u2013 a milestone the United Nations expects the world to hit on about Nov. 15, 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/earths-population-will-reach-8-billion-next-week-heres-what-that-means-for-our-planet\">Continue reading \u201cEarth\u2019s population will reach 8 billion next week \u2014 here\u2019s what that means for our planet\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There might be room for everyone, or not. At first glance, the connections between the world\u2019s growing population and climate change seem obvious. The more people we have on this planet, the larger their collective impact on the climate. Looking back to the Stone Age. Orbon Alija\/iStock. However, a closer look with a longer time [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150107","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}