Bush Fires
At the moment half of this state NSW, the same for QLD. Is burning up in flames.
THere is one burning just 2 suburbs away and it has done so for about 2 weeks. THe prime minister doesn't believe in climate change. The premiere i.e the leader of this state has just taken away 14 million for the rural fire service budget. None of any of the leaders will talk about climate change. So this what this side world looks like. 2 kids were arrested today starting a grass fire. Most of these fires are started by fire bugs. i.e arsonists. Some have being caught wearing firefighters clothes. |
We've got a permanent thread on climate change called "Too little too late". You might be interested in following it.
Australia always strikes me as being rather like America. They both have this idea that because they are relatively new self-made nations, they don't have to worry about things like climate change. If things really go wrong, they can fix it with money or technology. |
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In regards to the fires, it's only going to get worse since it isn't even officially summer yet... |
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-...eting/11705330 |
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Some reference materials. https://www.anbg.gov.au/fire_ecology...diversity.html https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/managemen...cribed-burning |
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The first linked article deals with previous fires in Australia and the effects on the trees and bushes. The second linked article dealt with how the Government of Australia does controlled burns to eliminate brush and undergrowth. |
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We've been projecting a misleading image, sorry about that. Quote:
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Here it's really only two major parties that can realistically form a government (well actually three if you include the current government's fanatical coalition partners, the National Party as well), being the Labor Party, and the Liberal-National Party coalition (at federal level since other than Queensland with it's LNP Party, then the Liberal Party doesn't generally need the National Party to have enough numbers to form government at a state government level). |
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The setup here is that the "conservative" side is a weird mixture ideologies and the "progressive" side is an equally weird mixture of different ideologies. Both sides are "pragmatic" enough to ignore long term planning in their efforts to play the power game, and right now the environment is not seen (wrongly, IMO) by the political heavyweights as a vote winner. The Greens (appear to) care about environmental (ie survival) issues, but they have their own weird mixture of ideologies when it comes to other matters. To get into government here you only need to fool (or scare) some of the people some of the time because of the closeness of popular votes for the two main sides. Edit: fixed misplaced parenthesis |
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