{"id":62,"date":"2019-07-06T04:36:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T04:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2019-07-06T04:36:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T04:36:55","slug":"trump-represents-a-major-threat-to-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/06\/trump-represents-a-major-threat-to-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Represents A Major Threat to Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/landscape-2806202_1280-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/landscape-2806202_1280-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/landscape-2806202_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/landscape-2806202_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/landscape-2806202_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On June 30<sup>th<\/sup>, Secretary-General of the United\nNations Antonio Guterres told a meeting on climate change in the United Arab\nEmirates (UAE) that \u201cthe world is facing a grave emergency\u201d from climate\nchange, that \u201cclimate disruption is happening now and it is happening to all of\nus.\u201d&nbsp; He added that climate change is\n\u201coutpacing our efforts to address it with each week bringing new\nclimate-related devastation from floods, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires and\nsuperstorms.\u201d&nbsp; Conditions \u201cwill only get\nworse unless we act now with ambition and urgency,\u201d he stated.&nbsp; He also noted that \u201cmany countries are not\neven keeping pace with their promises under the Paris Agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate change may be the greatest threat to human existence\nsince the first humans set foot on the plains of Africa about 300,000 years\nago.&nbsp; Climate change is driven by\ngreenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere, primarily carbon dioxide\nand methane.&nbsp; China, the United States\nand the European Union account for more than half of the world\u2019s greenhouse gas\nemissions.&nbsp; But the United States, which has\nthe world\u2019s largest economy and produces about 15% of the total, is no longer a\nparty to the Paris Agreement, having been pulled out by President Trump.&nbsp; Worse, President Trump has declared climate\nchange to be a hoax and has had his administration work to undermine efforts to\nreduce the greenhouse pollutants that the United States has been pumping into\nthe atmosphere, by appointing climate deniers and fossil fuel industry\nsupporters across his administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the United States is one of the world\u2019s biggest polluters,\nby undermining the United States\u2019 climate change remediation efforts, President\nTrump represents a direct threat to humanity.&nbsp;\nTo rectify the situation in the short term, other countries will need to\nprovide leadership and use every diplomatic and economic tool available to\npressure the United States into taking action to fight climate change.&nbsp; Most importantly, all efforts must be made to\nensure Trump\u2019s defeat in next year\u2019s U.S. presidential election and that he is\nreplaced by someone who understands the climate change threat and will work to\nfight its effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 30th, Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres told a meeting on climate change in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that \u201cthe world is facing a grave emergency\u201d from climate change, that \u201cclimate disruption is happening now and it is happening to all of us.\u201d&nbsp; He added that climate change is \u201coutpacing our &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/06\/trump-represents-a-major-threat-to-humanity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trump Represents A Major Threat to Humanity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}