{"id":4389,"date":"2026-08-03T15:21:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2026-08-03T15:21:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:21:27","slug":"the-obsession-with-endless-growth-can-only-end-in-tears-your-questions-on-extreme-weather-this-summer-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=4389","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The obsession with endless growth can only end in tears\u2019: your questions on extreme weather this summer answered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Europe\u2019s deadly heat to floods in Asia, it\u2019s been a terrifying summer. Environment writers Jonathan Watts and Ajit Niranjan answered Reddit users\u2019 questions about their work \u2013 and their sources of hope<\/p>\n<p>Extreme weather supercharged by the climate crisis is fuelling an explosive wildfire season in Europe and extreme rainfall across Asia this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Global heating made hot, dry and windy weather stoking wildfires <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/31\/wildfires-extreme-weather-europe-spain-france-climate-crisis-analysis\">at least 20 times more likely in Spain and twice as likely in France<\/a>. EU officials have said wildfires could still be burning until early November in what threatens to be a record-breaking year for the area of land burned.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/aug\/03\/the-obsession-with-endless-growth-can-only-end-in-tears-your-questions-on-extreme-weather-this-summer-answered\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/aug\/03\/the-obsession-with-endless-growth-can-only-end-in-tears-your-questions-on-extreme-weather-this-summer-answered' target='_blank'>Read the original article on www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Europe\u2019s deadly heat to floods in Asia, it\u2019s been a terrifying summer. Environment writers Jonathan Watts and Ajit Niranjan answered Reddit users\u2019 questions about their work \u2013 and their sources of hope Extreme weather supercharged by the climate crisis is fuelling an explosive wildfire season in Europe and extreme rainfall across Asia this summer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}