17 people and half a billion animals and plants have died in the fires already. AustraliaBurning
“There are some fires that have been started by just carelessness, others sadly have been the result of direct arson, many have been created by dry lightning strikes,” he said at a news conference in December. “The drought conditions have certainly been a big contributor in terms of the dryness of the fuel load. There are also many other issues.”who need to be held to a higher standard. It’s us, too.
“Right now, on the outskirts of a hyper modern first world megapolis, at the end of a year in which the public seemed finally to wake up to the dramatic threat from global warming, a climate disaster of unimaginable horror has been unfolding for almost two full months, and the rest of the world is hardly paying attention,” writes David Wallace-Wells in, who argues that our collective “global apathy” toward the disaster is an eerie sign of the times.
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