Simpler Times
Jul. 28th, 2020 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanRemember back at the end of last year & the beginning of this year, when much of south-eastern Australia was on fire? Anyone??
Yes - before the Harry & Meghan Royal Family 'scandal', before Black Lives Matter (though they certainly did at the time... & always have), before Trump said... actually, he's said so many controversial & awful things, I can't remember which ones were said & done at the time... & before the Plague Pandemic
Now that the fires are out, there's a Royal Commission of Enquiry underway & the post-mortems of the blazes are being compiled... Our ABC has produced a report into the largest of the Summer fires - known as the Gospers Mountain fire, which burned over 1,000,000 hectares, destroyed over 100 houses & killed not only some of our firefighters, but god only knows how many animals
This report is essential reading... & viewing if you'd like to know how fires like this start & how difficult it was to fight it
This is also for all the armchair experts & climate-change sceptics who said the fires must have been deliberately lit... & for one guy who reckoned he was a lightning expert because he lives in Florida "the lightning capital of the world..." & assured me dry lightning doesn't exist
Yes - before the Harry & Meghan Royal Family 'scandal', before Black Lives Matter (though they certainly did at the time... & always have), before Trump said... actually, he's said so many controversial & awful things, I can't remember which ones were said & done at the time... & before the Plague Pandemic
Now that the fires are out, there's a Royal Commission of Enquiry underway & the post-mortems of the blazes are being compiled... Our ABC has produced a report into the largest of the Summer fires - known as the Gospers Mountain fire, which burned over 1,000,000 hectares, destroyed over 100 houses & killed not only some of our firefighters, but god only knows how many animals
This report is essential reading... & viewing if you'd like to know how fires like this start & how difficult it was to fight it
This is also for all the armchair experts & climate-change sceptics who said the fires must have been deliberately lit... & for one guy who reckoned he was a lightning expert because he lives in Florida "the lightning capital of the world..." & assured me dry lightning doesn't exist
