{"id":32797,"date":"2021-06-04T21:26:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/jun\/04\/sri-lankans-face-up-to-unmeasurable-cost-of-cargo-ship-disaster"},"modified":"2021-06-04T21:26:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:26:31","slug":"sri-lankans-face-up-to-unmeasurable-cost-of-cargo-ship-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32797","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankans face up to \u2018unmeasurable cost\u2019 of cargo ship disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fishing communities fear for future as oil, plastic and toxic chemicals devastate ecosystem<\/p>\n<p>Until last week Lucien Justin, the chair of the Jude Watta fisheries committee in Wattala, near Sri Lanka\u2019s capital, Colombo, lived a simple life. He and his wife ate two meals a day, and their small community of 90 fishers regularly supported each other with food and money. \u201cIf we fish, money comes. If not, we are left hungry,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/03\/sri-lanka-officials-brace-oil-spill-sinking-cargo-ship\">the worst maritime disaster in Sri Lanka\u2019s history<\/a> poisoned the waters near where he fishes, however, he fears even that simple life is now in dire danger. \u201cPeople are scared. Even if we caught fish, they wouldn\u2019t eat it because they think it\u2019s poisonous,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/jun\/04\/sri-lankans-face-up-to-unmeasurable-cost-of-cargo-ship-disaster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fishing communities fear for future as oil, plastic and toxic chemicals devastate ecosystemUntil last week Lucien Justin, the chair of the Jude Watta fisheries committee in Wattala, near Sri Lanka\u2019s capital, Colombo, lived a simple life. He and his wif&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1735,"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":[65,64,466,1980,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-oil-spills","category-pollution","category-shipping-industry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32797","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\/1735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32798,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32797\/revisions\/32798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}