{"id":2344,"date":"2025-01-09T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2025-01-05T15:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:00:39","slug":"study-plastic-pollution-is-changing-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/study-plastic-pollution-is-changing-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"STUDY: Plastic Pollution is Changing the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered that plastic pollution is changing entire earth system.\u00a0 It is affecting the climate, biodiversity, ecosystems, ocean acidification, human health and the use of freshwater and land.\u00a0 \u00a0The solution, they say, is to view the pollution not only as a waste problem, but more importantly as a product that poses harm to human health and the ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plastic pollution is changing entire Earth system, scientists find<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/nov\/07\/plastic-pollution-is-changing-entire-earth-system-scientists-find\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/nov\/07\/plastic-pollution-is-changing-entire-earth-system-scientists-find<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<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=\"9781642832358\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered that plastic pollution is changing entire earth system.\u00a0 It is affecting the climate, biodiversity, ecosystems, ocean acidification, human health and the use of freshwater and land.\u00a0 \u00a0The solution, they say, is to view the pollution not only as a waste problem, but more importantly as a product that poses harm to human&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/study-plastic-pollution-is-changing-the-planet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;STUDY: Plastic Pollution is Changing the Planet&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":[43,25,53,41,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-environment","category-global","category-news","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","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=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}