With Australia’s ruling regime trying to pretend that ‘this fire season is normal’ this is a worthwhile call. It it really is normal, why are the resources to fight it inadequate? If it is not normal, when did the regime think an abnormal fire season was likely and how did they
respond? What warnings did they issue, and on what bases? Was the abnormality they foresaw factored into their calculus of the value to Australia of local and global action on global heating? If not, why not? Based on what has been learned from this fire-season has this calculus
changed relatively to that of the years 2009-2018? What costs to property, business activity and biodiversity does the regime now anticipate over the coming five to 20 years, year on year? What changes to infrastructure and resourcing will be needed to minimise these risks?
What impacts on human health and thus quality life years does the regime believe that these fires, assuming the ten-year trendline from 2009 is predictive, present to human morbidity, mortality and quality life-years over the period of the next decade? How will increased airborne
particulate during the likely fire seasons affect the quality life years data, those who are immuno- or respiratory-compromised, small children, given current and projected resourcing?
Further, what are the mental health implications of both the anticipation and actuality of annual catastrophic fire seasons, of swingeing and prolonged water restrictions and the associated belief that Australia is no longer a healthy and safe place to raise children? Do adequate
answers to these questions compel the conclusion that a #ClimateEmergency is in progress and that emergency public policy provision is urgently demanded?
When a 10 tonne truck is flipped onto its roof by a tornado created by a fire storm #ThisIsNotNormal theguardian.com/australia-news… This man died fighting to protect his community from a monster fuelled by fossil criminals and their sockpuppets. Let us all be angry. #ClimateEmergency
This is like an apocalyptic sci fi movie. theage.com.au/national/nsw/n… Let this be seared not only into the memories of those of us who sounded the alarm 40 years back but of those who see these places as quintessentially foundational to ‘Australia’. anglo-European mythology
is burning, disintegrating before their eyes. It is not merely Greta’s dreams that are on fire but white Australia’s memories and their actual or future retirement places. The fires don’t care about their franking credits. They don’t care about whether their taxes are lower.
No amount of voting Liberal or bringing out the army or the police can stop this monster attacking human settlements. Conservative Australia fed it for decades and now it is upon them doing as it pleases. People thought in the late 30s that selling pig iron to Japan was a bad
idea because that steel would be hurled back against us, but all the while the world, including Australia, was nurturing a far bigger monster, one far less tractable or reasonable than even the Axis Powers with friends far more influential in government. We now see its true face.
Also #ThisIsNotNormal
