{"id":2563,"date":"2020-08-03T09:42:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T13:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cafethorium.whoi.edu\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2023-10-19T11:01:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:01:50","slug":"the-danger-of-creating-a-designer-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/the-danger-of-creating-a-designer-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"The danger of creating a designer planet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\n<p>It is natural in the face of an impending emergency to look for something-anything-that will avert the crisis. So it is understandable that in the absence of a meaningful action plan emerging from last December&#8217;s UN climate meeting in Madrid people are grasping at almost any idea that might offer a solution to climate change. But pursuing an idea without a firm understanding of the inner workings of our planet is folly at best and just plain dangerous at worst, even if it is done with the best of intentions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ocean.economist.com\/innovation\/articles\/the-danger-of-creating-a-designer-planet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a> (outside link to full article)<\/p>\nKen Buesseler (2020) <strong>The danger of creating a designer planet<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Economist Group &#8211; World Ocean Initiative, January 31, 2020\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is natural in the face of an impending emergency to look for something-anything-that will avert the crisis. So it is understandable that in the absence of a meaningful action plan emerging from last December&#8217;s UN climate meeting in Madrid people are grasping at almost any idea that might offer a solution to climate change.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[15,29,28,17],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-iron","tag-ocean-fertilization","tag-opinion","tag-particles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2838,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}