'Australia is the indirect architect of its own demise.'
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”.
This is the terrifying moment firefighters in Australia were forced to run to escape an 'explosion of fire' in the trees overhead. No crew members were injured. Australia's unprecedented bushfires have been burning for weeks
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