{"id":251554,"date":"2026-01-25T21:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251554\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T21:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:21:10","slug":"war-of-the-worlds-otago-daily-times-online-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251554\/","title":{"rendered":"War of the worlds | Otago Daily Times Online News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate protesters dropped a large inflatable Earth in front of cruise ship\u00a0The World\u00a0as it departed from the Otago Harbour yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The action was a combined effort from the Climate Liberation Aotearoa \u014ctepoti branch and the Global Cruise Activist Network.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman said they were protesting the &#8220;floating apartment building[\u2019s]&#8221; conspicuous consumption as it floated around the world.<\/p>\n<p>They had three demands which were the same as previous years.<\/p>\n<p>The groups wanted the industry\u2019s emissions counted in local and national carbon budgets and mitigated or preferably reduced.<\/p>\n<p>They also wanted the local community to stop having to subsidise cruise ships.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the groups wanted big ships to stop going to Milford Sound, Fiordland, Ulva Island, Antarctica and other sensitive ecological areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The environmental risks are just too high,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Climate protesters dropped a large inflatable Earth in front of cruise ship\u00a0The World\u00a0as it departed from the Otago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-251554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}