{"id":120,"date":"2019-04-15T14:03:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/nature-meditation\/?page_id=120"},"modified":"2019-04-15T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:03:16","slug":"population-paper-and-plastic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/nature-meditation\/population-paper-and-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Population, Paper, And Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Population, paper, and plastics are destroying the earth. <br>Human population has taken over the planet, and is covering up all nooks and corners. <br>This is like a catastrophe and doom for thousands of other species. <br>All the nations of the earth should get together to control this.<br>Material consumption of human beings is increasing so much every minute that we crave and buy things we may not even need, and that&#8217;s how a country&#8217;s GDP is calculated.<br>The progress of a country or region is measured by economic turnover, and not by environment yardstick. <br>To discuss environment and ecology, regular meetings and useless conferences are held by our dear world leaders in expensive suits, and five star hotels, traveling in chartered planes, and limousine convoys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paper is another reason for wrecking up our one and only planet for the simple reason that paper comes from trees, forests, and industrial chemical treatment. <br>We all need to work towards a paperless digital society where all knowledge and documents, and bills are shared digitally e.g. mobile phones and computers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plastic is not far behind in all this. We need to use plastic sparingly and judiciously. <br>Plastic should also be used and reused many times over, and the leftovers should be recycled at all cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Population, paper, and plastics are destroying the earth. Human population has taken over the planet, and is covering up all nooks and corners. This is like a catastrophe and doom for thousands of other species. All the nations of the earth should get together to control this.Material consumption of human beings is increasing so much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/nature-meditation\/population-paper-and-plastic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Population, Paper, And Plastic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/nature-meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/nature-meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/nature-meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/nature-meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/nature-meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/nature-meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/nature-meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silentmeditation.in\/nature-meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}