{"id":46743,"date":"2022-07-26T02:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T17:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/jul\/25\/afghanistan-is-facing-a-climate-calamity-its-time-the-world-took-notice"},"modified":"2022-07-26T02:30:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T17:30:43","slug":"afghanistan-is-facing-a-climate-calamity-its-time-the-world-took-notice-shadi-khan-saif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46743","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan is facing a climate calamity \u2013 it\u2019s time the world took notice | Shadi Khan Saif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country has been out of the spotlight since US forces left but environmental disasters and the threat of another food crisis should be front-page news<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If it bleeds, it leads \u2013 so goes the media expression \u2013 and this is especially true of news out of Afghanistan, which made global headlines during the presence of US forces but few while lives are being lost to the climate crisis. <\/p>\n<p>The main attention Afghanistan gets these days is when big international aid agencies put together posters of hungry women and children for donations, or when a calamity like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/25\/taliban-say-they-will-not-interfere-with-afghanistan-earthquake-aid\">June 2022 earthquake<\/a> hits.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/jul\/25\/afghanistan-is-facing-a-climate-calamity-its-time-the-world-took-notice\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country has been out of the spotlight since US forces left but environmental disasters and the threat of another food crisis should be front-page newsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIf it bleeds, it leads \u2013 so goes the media expression \u2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3191,"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":[46,2331,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-climate-crisis","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46743","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\/3191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46744,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46743\/revisions\/46744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}