{"id":151193,"date":"2022-11-26T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T21:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/humans-v-nature-our-long-and-destructive-journey-to-the-age-of-extinction"},"modified":"2022-11-26T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T21:33:08","slug":"humans-v-nature-our-long-and-destructive-journey-to-the-age-of-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/humans-v-nature-our-long-and-destructive-journey-to-the-age-of-extinction","title":{"rendered":"Humans v nature: our long and destructive journey to the age of extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-v-nature-our-long-and-destructive-journey-to-the-age-of-extinction2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The story of the damage done to the world\u2019s biodiversity is a tale of decline spanning thousands of years. Can the world seize its chance to change the narrative?<\/p>\n<p>The story of the biodiversity crisis starts with a cold-case murder mystery that is tens of thousands of years old. When humans started spreading across the globe they discovered a world full of huge, mythical-sounding mammals called \u201cmegafauna\u201d, but by the end of the Pleistocene, one by one, these large animals had disappeared. There is no smoking gun and evidence from ancient crime scenes is \u2014 unsurprisingly \u2014 patchy. But what investigators have learned suggests a prime suspect: humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of the damage done to the world\u2019s biodiversity is a tale of decline spanning thousands of years. Can the world seize its chance to change the narrative? The story of the biodiversity crisis starts with a cold-case murder mystery that is tens of thousands of years old. When humans started spreading across the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151193","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=151193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}