{"id":482487,"date":"2018-06-05T02:03:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T06:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1402c7ac314f50f755acd6f7d9c1542b"},"modified":"2018-06-05T02:03:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T06:03:47","slug":"alien-apocalypse-can-any-civilization-make-it-through-climate-change-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=482487","title":{"rendered":"Alien apocalypse: Can any civilization make it through climate change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the face of climate change, deforestation and biodiversity loss, creating a sustainable version of civilization is one of humanity&#8217;s most urgent tasks. But when confronting this immense challenge, we rarely ask what may be the most pressing question of all: How do we know if sustainability is even possible? Astronomers have inventoried a sizable share of the universe&#8217;s stars, galaxies, comets, and black holes. But are planets with sustainable civilizations also something the universe contains? Or does every civilization that may have arisen in the cosmos last only a few centuries before it falls to the climate change it triggers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the face of climate change, deforestation and biodiversity loss, creating a sustainable version of civilization is one of humanity&#8217;s most urgent tasks. But when confronting this immense challenge, we rarely ask what may be the most pressing question&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482488,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482487\/revisions\/482488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}