{"id":18243,"date":"2012-11-21T16:16:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T22:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=18243"},"modified":"2012-11-21T16:16:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T22:16:06","slug":"eaarth-the-new-planet-we-live-on-now-is-no-longer-your-grandparents-earth-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2012\/11\/eaarth-the-new-planet-we-live-on-now-is-no-longer-your-grandparents-earth-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Eaarth: the new planet we live on now is no longer your grandparent&#039;s Earth anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The Environmental Activist, Bill McKibben, discusses his take on the state of environment and planet\u2019s survivability.\u00a0 With the use and search for fossil fuels and their impact on the planet, we are looking at a doomsday sooner than later.\u00a0 If we do not stop this, we will never be able to come back.\u00a0 With shrinking polar ice caps, rising temperatures, vanishing forests, acidic oceans and superstorms now becoming the new normal; are we now living on a NEW planet?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, says Bill.\u00a0 It is no longer your Grandfather\u2019s planet \u201cEarth\u201d.\u00a0 So, might as well call it differently.\u00a0 Eaarth, he calls it now.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Activist, Bill McKibben, discusses his take on the state of environment and planet\u2019s survivability.\u00a0 With the use and search for fossil fuels and their impact on the planet, we are looking at a doomsday sooner than later.\u00a0 If we do not stop this, we will never be able to come back.\u00a0 With shrinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":18244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,18,46],"tags":[550,1109],"class_list":["post-18243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earth","category-environment","category-nature","tag-bill-mckibben","tag-eaarth","post_format-post-format-audio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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