{"id":7883,"date":"2019-08-05T03:22:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T18:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=7883"},"modified":"2019-08-05T11:28:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T02:28:28","slug":"the-economist-august-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=7883","title":{"rendered":"The Economist (August 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStill a livelihood for 1.5bn people, forests maintain local and regional ecosystems and, for the other 6.2bn, provide a\u2014fragile and creaking\u2014buffer against climate change. Now droughts, wildfires and other human-induced changes are compounding the damage from chainsaws. In the tropics, which contain half of the world\u2019s forest biomass, tree-cover loss has accelerated by two-thirds since 2015; if it were a country, the shrinkage would make the tropical rainforest the world\u2019s third-biggest carbon-dioxide emitter, after China and America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStill a livelihood for 1.5bn people, forests maintain local and regional ecosystems and, for the other 6.2bn, provide a\u2014fragile and creaking\u2014buffer against climate change. Now droughts, wildfires and other human-induced changes are compounding the damage from chainsaws. In the tropics, which contain half of the world\u2019s forest biomass, tree-cover loss has accelerated by two-thirds since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9415,9413,6,62,237,314,4386,7308,266,9414,9416,8,6046],"class_list":["post-7883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-buffer","tag-chainsaws","tag-china","tag-climate-change","tag-co2","tag-damage","tag-droughts","tag-ecosystems","tag-forests","tag-livelihood","tag-tropical-rainforest","tag-u-s","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7887,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions\/7887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}