Fireworks in blazing Australia feel like such a final straw for me and I suppose I just despair for how little is done, how little will be done and how dark the future will be because of this. It has been lovely to spend time with family and extended family over xmas and get lost for a tiny bit in the other way of living - but I feel desperately useless in this state of 'just being' and not acting to stop the lunacy of the fossil fuel industry and shite, corrupted governments. Like a passenger in a car headed for the cliff edge discussing which radio station to put on.
And while fires burn out of control in Australia - corporate interests continue to set the Amazon ablaze - what a fucked-up world we live in. Death toll of humans in Australia increased to 12 since this article went out just 17 hours ago - loss of koalas, kangaroos, birds and other beautiful creatures far far worse:
IS THIS NORMAL FOR AUSTRALIA?
[The NSW Rural Fire Service says the scale of what has burned in that state is unprecedented at this point of the fire season. By Monday, 3.41 million hectares had burned. “To put it in perspective, in the past few years we have had a total area burned for the whole season of about 280,000 hectares,” RFS spokeswoman Angela Burford said.
The fires have already killed at least 10 people, torched more than 11.3 million acres, and destroyed more than 900 homes since September. The blazes made breathing the air in Sydney as bad as smoking 37 cigarettes and have killed 480 million animals, environmental officials said, including nearly one-third of the koalas in one of Australia’s most populated koala habitats in an area 240 miles north of Sydney.
Australia’s national government has been slower to respond to the risks posed by extreme heat, bush fires, and climate change. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologized this month for taking a vacation to Hawaii during the recent heatwave and bushfires. However, he brushed off calls to curb Australia’s reliance on coal.
“I am not going to write off the jobs of thousands of Australians by walking away from traditional industries,” he told Australia’s Channel Seven.]
So... Happy New Year - sorry this is not a post to bring joy... I just don't feel like there's much time left for it
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*Planning, plotting and preparing to get on with fighting back... mood will improve xxx
ps... Lewis (in the image) died.
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