{"id":261889,"date":"2025-12-10T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=261889"},"modified":"2025-12-07T18:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T18:14:24","slug":"global-heating-kills","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/global-heating-kills\/","title":{"rendered":"Global heating kills!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heat-related deaths now exceed half a million a year, which means about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/oct\/29\/rising-heat-kills-one-person-a-minute-worldwide-lancet-countdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one every minute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>People often just cannot cope with the heat stress caused by continued burning of fossil fuels, quite apart from the air pollution and increased likelihood of wildfires that result.<\/p>\n<p>Governments pay out massive subsidies to fossil fuel companies ($2.5bn a day in 2023), often while spewing out drivel about the benefits of a \u2018free market\u2019. At the same time, hundreds of billions of hours of labour are lost because of the heat.<\/p>\n<p>The responsibility for all this is down to capitalism and its motive of making a profit rather than caring for the environment and those who live within it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-261889","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/261889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}