{"id":46011,"date":"2019-05-08T10:23:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46011"},"modified":"2019-05-08T10:24:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:24:16","slug":"adult-lifestyles-sentence-kids-to-1000-years-of-deadly-heat-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46011","title":{"rendered":"Adult Lifestyles Sentence Kids to 1,000 Years of \u201cDeadly\u201d Heat Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Adult Lifestyles Sentence Kids to 1,000 Years of \u201cDeadly\u201d Heat Waves<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Photograph Source: Intothewoods7 \u2013 CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sixteen year old Greta Thunberg\u2019s School Strike for Climate<\/a> generation seems likely to witness the beginnings of a grueling, traumatizing, brutal, heat-driven reversal of the human population boom. Why? Because we\u2019ve continued to pack the atmosphere with a little more CO2 with almost every move we make in utterly normal daily routines, thus forcing heat higher and higher day after day after day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we\u2019ve collectively waited too long before taking the situation seriously. Now it\u2019s irreversible. A study led by Susan Solomon<\/a> found that the CO2 we add to the atmosphere every day remains there for centuries, \u201cso that atmospheric temperatures do not drop significantly for at least 1,000 years.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kids thus face an array of heat-driven risks for the next 1,000 years, and the risks are certain to escalate with every next new day of using the atmosphere as a carbon dump. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the risks can be reduced. Will that be too much to ask?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of 2016, even before we collectively forced the heat 1C higher than pre-industrial times, EPA had already reported<\/a> that, \u201cChildren are particularly vulnerable to heat-related illness and death, as their bodies are less able to adapt to heat than adults, and they must rely on others to help keep them safe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing for\u00a0The Age<\/a>, one of Australia\u2019s leading newspapers, journalist Caitlin Fitzsimmons tells her readers, \u201cLet\u2019s not pretend that children and teenagers can\u2019t understand what\u2019s going on.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0She reports that 86 per cent of Australia\u2019s surveyed teens view climate change as a threat to their safety, \u201cwith 73 per cent saying it affects the world \u2018a lot\u2019 now and 84 per cent saying it will affect the world \u2018a lot\u2019 in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adult Lifestyles Sentence Kids to 1,000 Years of \u201cDeadly\u201d Heat Waves Photograph Source: Intothewoods7 \u2013 CC BY-SA 4.0 Sixteen year old Greta Thunberg\u2019s School Strike for Climate generation seems likely to witness the beginnings of a grueling, traumatizing, brutal, heat-driven reversal of the human population boom. Why? Because we\u2019ve continued to pack the atmosphere with a little more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2956,5493,369,23485,17474],"class_list":["post-46011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-science","tag-counterpunch","tag-global-warming","tag-greta-thunberg","tag-lance-olsen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46012,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46011\/revisions\/46012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}