{"id":4306,"date":"2019-03-22T11:56:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T11:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2019-05-10T12:10:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:10:33","slug":"cyclone-idai-why-is-the-media-not-linking-it-to-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/cyclone-idai-why-is-the-media-not-linking-it-to-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Idai: Why is the media not linking it to climate change?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Trump, Rich Industrialised Countries and Carbon Corporations Must Pay a Climate Debt For Damaged Caused<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the 14<sup>th<\/sup> of March, a cyclone with winds of up to 177km\/h hit Southern Africa, devastating large parts of Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique. Even in the early stages of the aftermath, it has been hailed as a humanitarian disaster. According to the UN\u2019s weather agency, it is possible that cyclone Idai has the potential to be the worst weather related disaster to ever hit the Southern Hemisphere. This is a climate disaster engendering climate injustice. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cyclone-Idai-Statement-22.03.2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read more (opens in a new tab)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump, Rich Industrialised Countries and Carbon Corporations Must Pay a Climate Debt For Damaged Caused On the 14th of March, a cyclone with winds of up to 177km\/h hit Southern Africa, devastating large parts of Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique. Even in the early stages of the aftermath, it has been hailed as a humanitarian disaster&#8230;. <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/cyclone-idai-why-is-the-media-not-linking-it-to-climate-change\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4310,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions\/4310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}