{"id":17406,"date":"2022-07-19T09:52:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T09:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=17406"},"modified":"2022-07-19T09:52:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T09:52:34","slug":"bushfire-survivors-call-for-urgent-action-on-state-of-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/07\/19\/bushfire-survivors-call-for-urgent-action-on-state-of-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSHFIRE SURVIVORS CALL FOR URGENT ACTION ON STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action (BSCA) today welcomes the release of the State of the Environment report, and calls on the government to act urgently to cut emissions and keep our regional communities safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australians are facing an increasingly high bushfire-risk environment that is driven by climate change. Bureau of Meteorology data shows there are 10 times more extreme fire danger days than there were in the 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BSCA president Jo Dodds said the report underscored the importance of making deep emissions cuts this decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur regional towns deserve safety and security,\u201d Ms Dodds said. \u201cWe need to stop burning coal, gas and oil to reduce the risk of bushfires and other extreme weather events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI know too well what it\u2019s like to experience the effects of a climate change-fuelled emergency, and call on our leaders to invest in solutions to reduce emissions \u2013 we know this will help keep our regional communities safe while also supporting their economic growth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action (BSCA) today welcomes the release of the State of the Environment report, and calls on the government to act urgently to cut emissions and keep our regional communities safe. Australians are facing an increasingly high bushfire-risk environment that is driven by climate change. Bureau of Meteorology data shows there are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/07\/19\/bushfire-survivors-call-for-urgent-action-on-state-of-the-environment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BUSHFIRE SURVIVORS CALL FOR URGENT ACTION ON STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT\u00a0&#8220;<\/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-17406","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\/17406","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=17406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17407,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17406\/revisions\/17407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}