| Photo essay of Australian fires on 19:31 - Jan 10 with 1009 views | vapour_trail |
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| Photo essay of Australian fires on 20:09 - Jan 10 with 975 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
It's horrific, and its probably a rare case that the reality is probably more severe than the photos can convey. |  |
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| Photo essay of Australian fires on 20:18 - Jan 10 with 969 views | Ryorry |
One of the terrifying things is seeing the maps of where the fires are, & realising that they are all over the continent, not confined to one area. Feels biblical, as if the whole continent's on fire. Most terrifying thing I've seen in a pretty long life. Heart goes out to all living things affected. |  |
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| Photo essay of Australian fires on 00:37 - Jan 11 with 842 views | IPS_wich |
The fear is that is only the start. Bushfire season is typically mid-January to March because it’s the hottest part of summer.
We’re starting our seventh year since moving to Perth and have never had 40c+ days in December before - we’ve just had seven in December 2019 - but it seems most of our senior politicians are either climate change deniers or are in the pockets of the mining industries. We built a house last year and the government have removed all incentives to install solar panels (we did anyway) - in a country like Australia with the amount of sun we get, the length of our coastline and the strength of the winds we should be nearly self-sufficient on renewable.
It’s very surreal to be living in Western Australia though. We’ve been relatively unscathed so far (there was on nasty 4-5 day fire 40km north of Perth a few weeks ago but that’s been put out) but I work for a company with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra and everyday there are messages going out to staff about new fires, evacuations etc. Every news channel is back to back coverage - it feels like us in the West are just voyeurs on this catastrophe. We’re just very lucky we had a very very wet 2018 winter in the West because NSW and parts of Victoria have had 2-3 winters with very little rain so everywhere is just dry as a bone and ignites in the blink of an eye. |  | | |
| Photo essay of Australian fires on 00:49 - Jan 11 with 836 views | Ryorry |
| Photo essay of Australian fires on 00:37 - Jan 11 by IPS_wich |
The fear is that is only the start. Bushfire season is typically mid-January to March because it’s the hottest part of summer.
We’re starting our seventh year since moving to Perth and have never had 40c+ days in December before - we’ve just had seven in December 2019 - but it seems most of our senior politicians are either climate change deniers or are in the pockets of the mining industries. We built a house last year and the government have removed all incentives to install solar panels (we did anyway) - in a country like Australia with the amount of sun we get, the length of our coastline and the strength of the winds we should be nearly self-sufficient on renewable.
It’s very surreal to be living in Western Australia though. We’ve been relatively unscathed so far (there was on nasty 4-5 day fire 40km north of Perth a few weeks ago but that’s been put out) but I work for a company with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra and everyday there are messages going out to staff about new fires, evacuations etc. Every news channel is back to back coverage - it feels like us in the West are just voyeurs on this catastrophe. We’re just very lucky we had a very very wet 2018 winter in the West because NSW and parts of Victoria have had 2-3 winters with very little rain so everywhere is just dry as a bone and ignites in the blink of an eye. |
The Aus PM in particular just seems in complete denial. It's just gobsmacking that with scenarios you have going on there, he/Govt. can continue to think that mining & exporting coal is a viable way forward. Makes you wonder what sort of advisors he has when you consider the potential solar power & benefit (incl economic) of other renewables in Aus. Does he/they have vested interests in the fossil fuel industries?! | |
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| Photo essay of Australian fires on 15:22 - Jan 11 with 724 views | IPS_wich |
| Photo essay of Australian fires on 00:49 - Jan 11 by Ryorry |
The Aus PM in particular just seems in complete denial. It's just gobsmacking that with scenarios you have going on there, he/Govt. can continue to think that mining & exporting coal is a viable way forward. Makes you wonder what sort of advisors he has when you consider the potential solar power & benefit (incl economic) of other renewables in Aus. Does he/they have vested interests in the fossil fuel industries?! |
Sorry - not been online for a few hours.
Morrison doesn’t have vested interests in fossil fuels, but he owes the industry his last election win. The main swing state last year was Queensland and he promised approval for a new super coal mine if he got into power. Ultimately secured him a shock victory. He’s also trying to claim that Australia doesn’t need to meet its carbon reductions under the Paris agreement because 10-15 years ago Australia reduced emissions more than required under the Kyoto agreement!! I’d be amazed if he’s still PM in six months - neither of the main parties are averse to replacing their PM if their popularity drops. | | | |
| Photo essay of Australian fires on 15:27 - Jan 11 with 714 views | Ryorry |
| Photo essay of Australian fires on 15:22 - Jan 11 by IPS_wich |
Sorry - not been online for a few hours.
Morrison doesn’t have vested interests in fossil fuels, but he owes the industry his last election win. The main swing state last year was Queensland and he promised approval for a new super coal mine if he got into power. Ultimately secured him a shock victory. He’s also trying to claim that Australia doesn’t need to meet its carbon reductions under the Paris agreement because 10-15 years ago Australia reduced emissions more than required under the Kyoto agreement!! I’d be amazed if he’s still PM in six months - neither of the main parties are averse to replacing their PM if their popularity drops. |
Ah, v, informative, thanks. Hope he gets booted, certainly deserves to be. | |
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