{"id":12673,"date":"2020-01-07T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T22:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/jan\/07\/australia-fijis-prayers-are-with-you-but-we-know-they-arent-enough-to-fight-the-climate-crisis"},"modified":"2020-01-07T07:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T22:00:41","slug":"australia-fijis-prayers-are-with-you-but-we-know-they-arent-enough-to-fight-the-climate-crisis-frank-bainimarama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12673","title":{"rendered":"Australia, Fiji&#8217;s prayers are with you but we know they aren&#8217;t enough to fight the climate crisis | Frank Bainimarama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The summer has seen another cyclone in Fiji and terrible fires in Australia. We don\u2019t need to be scientists to know that something is very wrong here<\/p>\n<p>As the world rang in a new year, for Oceania, the images that marked the beginning of the decade weren\u2019t ones of champagne and fireworks. Instead we were left with photos and headlines that merit not celebration, but mourning.<\/p>\n<p>The skies of Sydney were stained an eerie blood-red by apocalyptic bushfires, as desperate Australians gathered by the ocean, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/jan\/04\/mallacoota-burns-panic-on-the-ground-as-the-australian-navy-called-in\">waiting to be rescued by boat<\/a> \u2013 conditions that threaten to worsen still. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/02\/new-zealand-glaciers-turn-brown-from-australian-bushfires-smoke-ash-and-dust\">Glaciers in New Zealand were covered by a brown dusting of ash<\/a> that had travelled thousands of kilometres across the Pacific. And in Fiji, we were left reeling by rushing floodwaters and howling, gale-force winds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/jan\/07\/australia-fijis-prayers-are-with-you-but-we-know-they-arent-enough-to-fight-the-climate-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer has seen another cyclone in Fiji and terrible fires in Australia. We don\u2019t need to be scientists to know that something is very wrong hereAs the world rang in a new year, for Oceania, the images that marked the beginning of the decade weren\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,1027,436,157,874,282,723,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-bushfires","category-fiji","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-wildfires","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12674,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12673\/revisions\/12674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}