{"id":1039,"date":"2012-04-30T06:45:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T06:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duenos.net\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2012-04-30T06:45:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T06:45:37","slug":"map-monday-relentless-spread-of-filthy-humanz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/map-monday-relentless-spread-of-filthy-humanz\/","title":{"rendered":"Map Monday: Relentless Spread of Filthy HUMANZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/SPECIALS\/world\/road-to-rio\/satellite-photos-urban-sprawl\/index.html\">Reposted from cnn<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe past century has been defined by an epic migration of people from rural areas to the city. In 2008, for the first time in history, more of the Earth&#8217;s population was living in cities than in the countryside. The U.N. now predicts that nearly 70% of the global population will be city dwellers by 2050.<br \/>\nLooking back through the decades, these snapshots from space &#8212; created exclusively for CNN by <a href=\"http:\/\/landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\">NASA&#8217;s Landsat department<\/a> in collaboration with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/\">U.S. Geological Survey<\/a> &#8212; reveal the impact of this vast population shift on cities around the world.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/SPECIALS\/world\/road-to-rio\/satellite-photos-urban-sprawl\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1040\" title=\"cnnurbansprawl\" src=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cnnurbansprawl.jpg\" alt=\"Images from space track relentless spread of humanity\" width=\"593\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cnnurbansprawl.jpg 989w, https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cnnurbansprawl-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cnnurbansprawl-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reposted from cnn. The past century has been defined by an epic migration of people from rural areas to the city. In 2008, for the first time in history, more of the Earth&#8217;s population was living in cities than in the countryside. The U.N. now predicts that nearly 70% of the global population will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection","tag-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}