{"id":748177,"date":"2023-02-14T13:10:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=748177"},"modified":"2023-02-14T13:10:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:10:23","slug":"viewpoint-gold-mining-is-one-of-the-worlds-most-destructive-and-unnecessary-industries-heres-how-to-end-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=748177","title":{"rendered":"Viewpoint: Gold mining is one of the world&#039;s most destructive and unnecessary industries\u2014here&#039;s how to end it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 16th-century King Ferdinand of Spain sent his subjects abroad with the command: &#8220;Get gold, humanely if possible, but at all hazards, get gold.&#8221; His statement rings true today. Gold remains one of the world&#8217;s most expensive substances, but mining it is one of the most environmentally and socially destructive processes on the planet.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-02-viewpoint-gold-world-destructive-unnecessary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Viewpoint: Gold mining is one of the world&#8217;s most destructive and unnecessary industries\u2014here&#8217;s how to end it<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 16th-century King Ferdinand of Spain sent his subjects abroad with the command: &#8220;Get gold, humanely if possible, but at all hazards, get gold.&#8221; His statement rings true today. Gold&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748177","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=748177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748177\/revisions"}],"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=748177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}