{"id":7767,"date":"2020-01-27T09:27:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T06:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7767"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","slug":"restoring-our-planet-should-be-joint-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/27\/restoring-our-planet-should-be-joint-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring Our Planet Should Be Joint Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Daily\nNation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year\nin New York, 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg silenced a\nroomful of global leaders at the UN Climate Action Summit with an impassioned,\nhard-hitting truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople\nare suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing,\u201d she told\nthem. \u201cWe are at the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about\nis fairy tales about money and eternal economic growth. \u201cHow dare you!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The words\nwere delivered in a fashion that only a child, whose future is threatened by\nlack of commitment and tangible action in saving the earth from the looming catastrophe,\ncan do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her speech\ncomes at a time of a global outcry against the wanton destruction of the\nAmazon, the world\u2019s largest tropical rainforest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People are speaking out against environmental degradation as a result of economic development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Millions\nof hectares of forests have been cleared, entire rivers turned into industrial\nwaste, oceans filled with plastics and the air polluted by smoke and harmful\ngases. Our planet is dying, and we are killing it without abandon. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/oped\/opinion\/Restoring-our-planet-should-be-joint-effort\/440808-5432554-1bbx79\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Last year in New York, 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg silenced a roomful of global leaders at the UN Climate Action Summit with an impassioned, hard-hitting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}