{"id":315,"date":"2009-09-03T06:07:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T14:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=315"},"modified":"2009-09-03T06:07:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T14:07:59","slug":"human-footprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/03\/human-footprints\/","title":{"rendered":"human footprints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s hear it for the folks at <em>High Country News<\/em>. Or, at least for Susan Tweit, who recently had this to say about the human footprint(s) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcn.org\/issues\/40.18\/a-macabre-measure-of-the-human-footprint\">&#8220;There are too many of us.<\/a> The world&#8217;s human population has reached nearly 6.7 billion, twice as many people as there were 50 years ago; we&#8217;re adding another million humans about every four days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always fun to discover a &#8220;mainstream&#8221; media outlet willing to acknowledge the bottom line. <\/p>\n<p>And while you&#8217;re at it, read the rest of Tweit&#8217;s essay. It&#8217;s about one of my favorite subjects &#8211; roadkill. <\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s hear it for the folks at High Country News. Or, at least for Susan Tweit, who recently had this to say about the human footprint(s) &#8211; &#8220;There are too many of us. The world&#8217;s human population has reached nearly 6.7 billion, twice as many people as there were 50 years ago; we&#8217;re adding another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}