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just google 0r duckduckgo Australian bushfire photos ! I'm a bit numbed by them all now.
In case you are off visiting mars at the moment and haven’t caught up. Australia is burning !! The word of the day. week , month, year is UNPRECEDENTED !! We have apocalyptic, and catastrophic as well. So many thing that have never happened before in this country are happening now. Rainforests that go back to before Australia separated from Gondwanaland have burnt and are still burning . Rainforests don’t burn. We are loosing species of everything. We were always going to be amongst the first and hardest hit . We are a hot and dry continent .
Thousands for people have been stranded on beaches while the sky goes black during daytime. Where birds drop dead from the sky by the thousand , dropping into the ocean to wash up on the beaches where the people are sheltering.
A billion animals dead . Millions of hectares burnt out. Air quality in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne the worst in the world on multiple days. We should be offering apologies to New Zealand and South America. Apparently we have have given Buenos Aires very red sunsets and NZ snow fields are now brown.
We have fires so big and so hot they make their own weather , complete with lightening and fierce winds which starts more fires.
Every state of Australis is burnt or is burning, mainly both.
And how did our federal government respond.?? Well firstly our Prime Minister decided to go on holiday to Hawaii , took him days to get back. He then gave us multiple speeches on why this wasn’t climate change. , We are supposedly going great guns on decreasing emissions , we definitely are not ! I don’t like having to say this but Australia has the highest per capita emissions in the world. He then made an ad , including cheesy music to tell us what he was doing ??? And put it on Facebook !! We had to ask before the Australian Defence Force was brought in to help . He separates state duties and federal duties, shame fires don’t do that !!
All over social media there has also been concerted efforts from climate change deniers to blame everything else but climate change . The fires are mainly caused by arsonists, well no they aren’t ! Donald Trump jr. tweeted this one ! There have been literally hundreds of fires. In Victoria none have been started by arsonists. And very few in the other states. Next up we have a ridiculous claim that it is the Greens standing against fuel reduction burns. , despite the fact they only have one, yes one
member of federal parliament. Apparently the burns are more likely to start fires now because surprise, surprise , climate change is making Australia very hot and very dry. The only burning that seems to work is the cultural burning that our first nations people have done for thousands of years. it-s-miraculous-owners-say-cultural-burning-saved-their-property-20200103-p53okc.html It’s so disturbing to see these claims cropping up everywhere. These people seem to be willing to fight literally to the death of humanity.
We even has people asking to destroy all gum trees.?? Not sure how that was going to work !!
For many days I was just incredibly sad that we have lost so much. It is truely awful to see what the experts have been telling us would happen , actually happening and being so much worse than even they predicted.
But now despite all the shit that is going on the reaction world wide has been so wonderful . Some of the most unlikely people donating huge sums. Pink beat the Australia singers and actors to donate first. $500, 000. !!! Firefighters turning up from all over world. New Zealand have sent firefighters even though they have their own fires. Thank you California.
The list is beautiful. The stories of help coming out of the fires about the extraordinary actions of very ordinary people of all colours and faith I am quite proud I am an Australian at the moment.
Good thing that has come out of this is that we did learn from the awful fires we had in Victoria in 2009. That was just one state and we lost 176 people. One of the people involved in the enquiry afterwards was Dan Andrews and the measures they put in place at the time meant Victoria this time, despite the devastation has only had three deaths. The total deaths since September when some of the fires started is twenty three.
I really hope that others learn from what is happening here now, and learn bloody quickly !!
Watch this for a quick look .
Trevor Noah The daily show. https://www.facebook.com/thedailysho...type=2&theater
In case you are off visiting mars at the moment and haven’t caught up. Australia is burning !! The word of the day. week , month, year is UNPRECEDENTED !! We have apocalyptic, and catastrophic as well. So many thing that have never happened before in this country are happening now. Rainforests that go back to before Australia separated from Gondwanaland have burnt and are still burning . Rainforests don’t burn. We are loosing species of everything. We were always going to be amongst the first and hardest hit . We are a hot and dry continent .
Thousands for people have been stranded on beaches while the sky goes black during daytime. Where birds drop dead from the sky by the thousand , dropping into the ocean to wash up on the beaches where the people are sheltering.
A billion animals dead . Millions of hectares burnt out. Air quality in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne the worst in the world on multiple days. We should be offering apologies to New Zealand and South America. Apparently we have have given Buenos Aires very red sunsets and NZ snow fields are now brown.
We have fires so big and so hot they make their own weather , complete with lightening and fierce winds which starts more fires.
Every state of Australis is burnt or is burning, mainly both.
And how did our federal government respond.?? Well firstly our Prime Minister decided to go on holiday to Hawaii , took him days to get back. He then gave us multiple speeches on why this wasn’t climate change. , We are supposedly going great guns on decreasing emissions , we definitely are not ! I don’t like having to say this but Australia has the highest per capita emissions in the world. He then made an ad , including cheesy music to tell us what he was doing ??? And put it on Facebook !! We had to ask before the Australian Defence Force was brought in to help . He separates state duties and federal duties, shame fires don’t do that !!
All over social media there has also been concerted efforts from climate change deniers to blame everything else but climate change . The fires are mainly caused by arsonists, well no they aren’t ! Donald Trump jr. tweeted this one ! There have been literally hundreds of fires. In Victoria none have been started by arsonists. And very few in the other states. Next up we have a ridiculous claim that it is the Greens standing against fuel reduction burns. , despite the fact they only have one, yes one
member of federal parliament. Apparently the burns are more likely to start fires now because surprise, surprise , climate change is making Australia very hot and very dry. The only burning that seems to work is the cultural burning that our first nations people have done for thousands of years. it-s-miraculous-owners-say-cultural-burning-saved-their-property-20200103-p53okc.html It’s so disturbing to see these claims cropping up everywhere. These people seem to be willing to fight literally to the death of humanity. We even has people asking to destroy all gum trees.?? Not sure how that was going to work !!
For many days I was just incredibly sad that we have lost so much. It is truely awful to see what the experts have been telling us would happen , actually happening and being so much worse than even they predicted.
But now despite all the shit that is going on the reaction world wide has been so wonderful . Some of the most unlikely people donating huge sums. Pink beat the Australia singers and actors to donate first. $500, 000. !!! Firefighters turning up from all over world. New Zealand have sent firefighters even though they have their own fires. Thank you California.
The list is beautiful. The stories of help coming out of the fires about the extraordinary actions of very ordinary people of all colours and faith
I am quite proud I am an Australian at the moment. Good thing that has come out of this is that we did learn from the awful fires we had in Victoria in 2009. That was just one state and we lost 176 people. One of the people involved in the enquiry afterwards was Dan Andrews and the measures they put in place at the time meant Victoria this time, despite the devastation has only had three deaths. The total deaths since September when some of the fires started is twenty three.
I really hope that others learn from what is happening here now, and learn bloody quickly !!
Watch this for a quick look .
Trevor Noah The daily show. https://www.facebook.com/thedailysho...type=2&theater
You had a couple of great ones while I was in Buenos Aires
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