The Future Is...

[waitingman]

Orange...

As I wrote to a photography colleague in the USA this morning...'Parts of New South Wales & Victoria are literally hell on earth, with people sheltering in the sea as the fires cut off every escape route. With no rain forecast to fall, there's only so much firefighters can do & they've done it - time & time again - but the country is so dry, it's too easy for new fires to start & for the existing ones to just keep burning

Sydney has been singed at its fringes, but many small country towns have either been mostly destroyed, or seriously affected... to say nothing of the millions of animals - domestic & wildlife - that have been killed...

It's a weather pattern in the Indian Ocean that's to blame - it's causing flooding in eastern Africa, while Australia gets no rain at all... It's a cruel world'

Meanwhile, our Prime Minister is more excited about the cricket match starting today, than about taking any action on the fires today, or the climate tomorrow... It makes me just... throw up my hands in despair

It also makes me wonder how long before a grief-stricken farmer, or country town resident, takes a leaf out of the USA's book & takes a shot at the insensitive, greedy, blinkered, fat shit

Comments

[sandypawozbun]

It is truly terrifying both that a significant portion of Australia is currently on fire, and that our happy clapping dimwit of a PM has his fingers in his ears while singing 'La La La Not Listening'. I don't advocate a Final Solution for the PM, but I can understand completely if someone else does. :(

[waitingman]

If our PM wants to model himself on the US President, then it's only fair that we model ourselves on the US public & indulge ourselves in one of their favourite pastimes... shooting Presidents