My country is burning.
Jan. 6th, 2020 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarrenTonight, WA is cut off from the rest of Australia, due to floods and fire and now a cyclone up north
Here in Perth we're not impacted by the fires that are burning in all six states. (Fire Map). In NSW and Victoria the fires have been burning since November. But we're not complacent, our Go bags are packed. We've had a close call before, where we got the official text instruction to either evacuate or stay and defend. It was scary, but nothing like the people over east are facing now.
It's devastating. I don't even want to link to articles, it's too upsetting. The loss of human life is bad enough, the biodiversity loss is incalculable. We're mourning.
The only, only, positive thing about this horror is that our pentacostal Prime Minister has finally been forced to acknowledge that there is a link between the fires and climate change. This is the same guy who once brought a lump of coal to parliament in order to laud it. Basically, we're the worst Australia ranked worst of 57 countries on climate change policy
Here in Perth we're not impacted by the fires that are burning in all six states. (Fire Map). In NSW and Victoria the fires have been burning since November. But we're not complacent, our Go bags are packed. We've had a close call before, where we got the official text instruction to either evacuate or stay and defend. It was scary, but nothing like the people over east are facing now.
It's devastating. I don't even want to link to articles, it's too upsetting. The loss of human life is bad enough, the biodiversity loss is incalculable. We're mourning.
The only, only, positive thing about this horror is that our pentacostal Prime Minister has finally been forced to acknowledge that there is a link between the fires and climate change. This is the same guy who once brought a lump of coal to parliament in order to laud it. Basically, we're the worst Australia ranked worst of 57 countries on climate change policy