{"id":10909,"date":"2021-04-01T03:23:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T03:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10909"},"modified":"2021-04-01T03:23:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T03:23:10","slug":"death-of-great-barrier-reef-is-a-political-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/04\/01\/death-of-great-barrier-reef-is-a-political-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Great Barrier Reef is a political choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another devastating\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org.au\/supporting-science\/science-policy-and-analysis\/reports-and-publications\/risks-australia-three-degrees-c-warmer-world\">climate change report<\/a>\u00a0details that the Great Barrier Reef is all but doomed without radical climate action. It begs the question: what will it take for our leaders to act?<br \/>\nGreens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said immediate transformative action to reverse climate change impacts on the reef is possible, but political will and determination is lacking.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s disgraceful that reports like these are becoming normalised under the Liberal Government\u2019s watch &#8211; the destruction of our climate isn\u2019t a natural phenomenon, it\u2019s a political decision.<br \/>\n\u201cGovernments have choices around acting on climate change, and they\u2019re making the wrong ones.<br \/>\n\u201cOur Government has all the science and the technology it needs to create radical change, but it is failing miserably at showing the leadership needed for real action.<br \/>\n\u201cThis latest report clearly indicates that we are set to lose 70 &#8211; 99% of corals on the Great Barrier Reef unless radical action is taken now.<br \/>\n\u201cIf the Government isn\u2019t motivated by common sense and decency to protect the life on this planet that sustains us, maybe the threat of losing the $5 billion in tourism income from the reef will motivate it to act?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another devastating\u00a0climate change report\u00a0details that the Great Barrier Reef is all but doomed without radical climate action. It begs the question: what will it take for our leaders to act? Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said immediate transformative action to reverse climate change impacts on the reef is possible, but political &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/04\/01\/death-of-great-barrier-reef-is-a-political-choice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Death of Great Barrier Reef is a political choice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}