{"id":1798,"date":"2024-09-20T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2024-08-26T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:31:09","slug":"fixing-our-extreme-heat-blindspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/fixing-our-extreme-heat-blindspot\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing our Extreme Heat Blindspot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme heat waves in the United States and around the world already have killed thousands of people so far this summer and the worst is yet come. We know that heat stress is the leading cause of weather-related fatalities, so why does our culture push us to ignore it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heat is deadly. Why does our culture push us to ignore it?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/359742\/extreme-heat-cultural-attitudes-endurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/climate\/359742\/extreme-heat-cultural-attitudes-endurance<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781982166076\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme heat waves in the United States and around the world already have killed thousands of people so far this summer and the worst is yet come. We know that heat stress is the leading cause of weather-related fatalities, so why does our culture push us to ignore it? Heat is deadly. Why does our&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/fixing-our-extreme-heat-blindspot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Fixing our Extreme Heat Blindspot&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,55,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global","category-health","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}