{"id":32485,"date":"2018-10-29T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T09:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32485"},"modified":"2018-11-19T15:13:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T09:43:31","slug":"environment-pollution-more-hazardous-than-climate-change-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/environment-pollution-more-hazardous-than-climate-change-say-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment pollution more hazardous than climate change, say experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/news\/variety\/environment-pollution-more-hazardous-than-climate-change-say-experts\/article25301278.ece\">Environment pollution more hazardous than climate change, say experts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>According to experts from CARE (The Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment), unsafe environment poses greater risk to health than climate change.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Extent of the problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Globally, there are an estimated five million potentially- contaminated sites that threaten the well-being of the ecosystems and humans. However, less than 10% of the contaminated sites have been cleaned up.<\/li>\n<li>According to WHO, seven million deaths are linked to air pollution and another five million to chemical exposure.<\/li>\n<li>Environmental pollution if not addressed could result in extinction of humans in the next 100- 150 years.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Recommendations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>There is an urgent need for human capital and investment to clean up the contaminated sites.<\/li>\n<li>Coordination among all stakeholders is required to address the issue.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environment pollution more hazardous than climate change, say experts News: According to experts from CARE (The Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment), unsafe environment poses greater risk to health than climate change. Important Facts: Extent of the problem Globally, there are an estimated five million potentially- contaminated sites that threaten&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/environment-pollution-more-hazardous-than-climate-change-say-experts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Environment pollution more hazardous than climate change, say experts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[408,576,217],"class_list":["post-32485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","tag-climate-change","tag-ecology-and-environment","tag-gs-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704913584},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}