Media outlets around the world continue to react to the dozens of blazes burning across the country with the New York Times taking aim at Australian Prime Minister ScottMorrisonMP.
Unfortunately- Australia is the indirect architect of its own demise. The largest exporter of thermal and coking coal in the world now, adding massively to global warming through their own export initiatives. Federal and State government owned by climate sceptics.“No filter, no photoshop. And from the Australian PM … no interest,” wrote another.
Those who live in the affected areas “can taste the fire and feel it in our throats”, and the “fresh air and ocean breezes” in Sydney that have “long been treated as a daily birthright” are no more. The thick grey smoke that has blanketed the city’s skyline and coast for days looks “as if the country were being devoured by a chemical reaction”, award-winning novelist Anna Funder described in
, writing that the failure of the government to acknowledge the current climate crisis “is literally choking our children”.“If only the climate change deniers would choke on the smoke.”The author of thepiece wrote that the government, in refusing to address the threat of climate change, is “favouring the country’s powerful fossil fuel industry over its largest city, as well as the rural areas where fires have already destroyed hundreds of homes”.
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