The Australian Greens have called on Scott Morrison to lift his climate ambition to save Australian lives, as the NSW climate bushfires leave Sydney air quality as unhealthy as smoking a pack and a half of cigarettes a day.
\nQuotes attributable to New South Wales Senator Dr Mehreen Faruqi:
\n\u201cSydney has been choking under heavy smoke for days now. \u00a0We know particle pollution kills and people are suffering. We are in a health and climate emergency.
\n\u201cWhat we are experiencing is completely unprecedented and this is only going to get worse if we don’t take climate action now.
\nQuotes attributable to Greens spokesperson for the climate crisis, Adam Bandt MP:
\n\u201cScott Morrison must lift his climate ambition now to save people\u2019s lives.
\n\u201cAs COP25 launched in Madrid overnight, Australia was once again awarded \u2018Fossil of the Day\u2019 for our climate denialism and pollution failures. Australia should be global leaders on climate, but instead we\u2019re climate laggards.
\n\u201cDecisions made over the next few weeks as part of global climate negotiations could determine whether we\u2019ll be sweltering through 50 degree days in Sydney and Melbourne. Decisions now will determine whether the record breaking drought Australians are living through becomes the new normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Australian Greens have called on Scott Morrison to lift his climate ambition to save Australian lives, as the NSW climate bushfires leave Sydney air quality as unhealthy as smoking a pack and a half of cigarettes a day. Quotes attributable to New South Wales Senator Dr Mehreen Faruqi: \u201cSydney has been choking under heavy … Continue reading “As Sydney chokes Scott Morrison must lift his climate ambition to save Australian lives: Greens”<\/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-4494","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\/4494","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=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}