Australian Bushfires
So according to NASA, the Australian bushfires have intensified, and half the continent is burning. The largest peacetime evacuation in Australian history is underway, and the massive deaths/photos of animals are truly heartbreaking. Now the human death toll is beginning to rise. I am truly concerned for our Australian members, as two of my Australian friends have had to flee their homes.
I am believing in rain with you and the restoration of your beautiful country.
& this article came out NOV 19
"Indigenous leaders, who have been warning about a bushfire crisis for years, are calling for a radical change to how land is managed as Australia faces some of its worst bushfire conditions on record. "
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-14/traditional-owners-predicted-bushfire-disaster/11700320
Prayer and Rain spelling is all that's left now
"Indigenous leaders, who have been warning about a bushfire crisis for years, are calling for a radical change to how land is managed as Australia faces some of its worst bushfire conditions on record. "
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-14/traditional-owners-predicted-bushfire-disaster/11700320
Prayer and Rain spelling is all that's left now
Two NSW residents unaccounted for after horror weekend of fires
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-06/nsw-bushfires-two-people-unaccounted-for-says-rfs/11843060?pfmredir=sm&fbclid=IwAR365L_DCmiy6_ZQjS5u9_O4qQXFyUA7K-ssSgZJMpvrEXP96mYnqOhY3aY
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-06/nsw-bushfires-two-people-unaccounted-for-says-rfs/11843060?pfmredir=sm&fbclid=IwAR365L_DCmiy6_ZQjS5u9_O4qQXFyUA7K-ssSgZJMpvrEXP96mYnqOhY3aY
Brother T, omg, that NASA space shot of OZ is terrifying, and I’m from south Cali so I know about fire!
We’ve got lots of members/friends there who I haven’t seen online awhile and I’m worried. I’m under the weather, but my prayers go out to them.🙏🏻
Jadey🐾
We’ve got lots of members/friends there who I haven’t seen online awhile and I’m worried. I’m under the weather, but my prayers go out to them.🙏🏻
Jadey🐾
Anonymous
Prayers for rain and relief to everyone there, including a couple of poet friends I've not spoken to in almost 5 years.
I was so glad when I watched a local show this morning with the host discussing real time that Los Angeles is sending out a number of our fire fighters to help with this epic disaster. Many of us here are with them in spirit!
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It's absolutely ungodly.
24 people dead 500 million animals dead 8,000 koalas dead Over 5.5 million hectares burned (the size of Belgium)
https://www.pakkeoz.com/2020/01/24-people-dead-500-million-animals-dead.html?fbclid=IwAR2rndVs0UVYoRGkdRg0mc1Its1xv_RCUJ9eYaiR2oI1npmtYGrBsLMGHvY
24 people dead 500 million animals dead 8,000 koalas dead Over 5.5 million hectares burned (the size of Belgium)
https://www.pakkeoz.com/2020/01/24-people-dead-500-million-animals-dead.html?fbclid=IwAR2rndVs0UVYoRGkdRg0mc1Its1xv_RCUJ9eYaiR2oI1npmtYGrBsLMGHvY
(That nasa shot is fake)
Don’t think of this as Australia’s problem, isolated from your own lives. These fires are literally bellwether events, where the most fragile ecosystems show severe stress first.....but they are only the first.
Just the co2 emissions alone, from this fire event, will change already unstable Pacific Ocean temperatures (I track these for use in predicting long term weather trends as part of analysis of risks to construction projects) which will have global weather impacts. Not a conspiracy theory, but verifiable fact. I also fly all over the pacific frequently....a month ago the smoke cloud was 3000km’s wide and reached well above 15km’s in height. The fire is much bigger now, and we are still at the start of the fire season. Truly amazing. This will affect how much plant life grows in the ocean, which affects fish growth, which affects......eventually that sentence ends with you.
The scale and frequency of “extreme” weather events is increasing. Where does it end.
You.
Don’t think of this as Australia’s problem, isolated from your own lives. These fires are literally bellwether events, where the most fragile ecosystems show severe stress first.....but they are only the first.
Just the co2 emissions alone, from this fire event, will change already unstable Pacific Ocean temperatures (I track these for use in predicting long term weather trends as part of analysis of risks to construction projects) which will have global weather impacts. Not a conspiracy theory, but verifiable fact. I also fly all over the pacific frequently....a month ago the smoke cloud was 3000km’s wide and reached well above 15km’s in height. The fire is much bigger now, and we are still at the start of the fire season. Truly amazing. This will affect how much plant life grows in the ocean, which affects fish growth, which affects......eventually that sentence ends with you.
The scale and frequency of “extreme” weather events is increasing. Where does it end.
You.
hemihead said:(That nasa shot is fake)
Don’t think of this as Australia’s problem, isolated from your own lives. These fires are literally bellwether events, where the most fragile ecosystems show severe stress first.....but they are only the first.
Just the co2 emissions alone, from this fire event, will change already unstable Pacific Ocean temperatures (I track these for use in predicting long term weather trends as part of analysis of risks to construction projects) which will have global weather impacts. Not a conspiracy theory, but verifiable fact. I also fly all over the pacific frequently....a month ago the smoke cloud was 3000km’s wide and reached well above 15km’s in height. The fire is much bigger now, and we are still at the start of the fire season. Truly amazing. This will affect how much plant life grows in the ocean, which affects fish growth, which affects......eventually that sentence ends with you.
The scale and frequency of “extreme” weather events is increasing. Where does it end.
You.
Government miss management is a big part of the blame. Farmers have not been allowed to back burn for years. The government is selling off the countries water to mining corporations to use in the fracking wells.
How come corporate entities are not made accountable?
Sure we as the consumer have some say, but in the end they are the ones that produce what and how we consume.
Why is the world not growing hemp so we can use the product to reduce plastics?
Why are we as the people so reliant on something that clearly doesn't have our best interests at heart
Why do we put faith in a system that clearly no longer works for us, rather we fear it. That's terrorism by the way.
Don’t think of this as Australia’s problem, isolated from your own lives. These fires are literally bellwether events, where the most fragile ecosystems show severe stress first.....but they are only the first.
Just the co2 emissions alone, from this fire event, will change already unstable Pacific Ocean temperatures (I track these for use in predicting long term weather trends as part of analysis of risks to construction projects) which will have global weather impacts. Not a conspiracy theory, but verifiable fact. I also fly all over the pacific frequently....a month ago the smoke cloud was 3000km’s wide and reached well above 15km’s in height. The fire is much bigger now, and we are still at the start of the fire season. Truly amazing. This will affect how much plant life grows in the ocean, which affects fish growth, which affects......eventually that sentence ends with you.
The scale and frequency of “extreme” weather events is increasing. Where does it end.
You.
Government miss management is a big part of the blame. Farmers have not been allowed to back burn for years. The government is selling off the countries water to mining corporations to use in the fracking wells.
How come corporate entities are not made accountable?
Sure we as the consumer have some say, but in the end they are the ones that produce what and how we consume.
Why is the world not growing hemp so we can use the product to reduce plastics?
Why are we as the people so reliant on something that clearly doesn't have our best interests at heart
Why do we put faith in a system that clearly no longer works for us, rather we fear it. That's terrorism by the way.
Anonymous
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Carpe_Noctem said:
Government miss management is a big part of the blame. Farmers have not been allowed to back burn for years. The government is selling off the countries water to mining corporations to use in the fracking wells.
How come corporate entities are not made accountable?
Sure we as the consumer have some say, but in the end they are the ones that produce what and how we consume.
Why is the world not growing hemp so we can use the product to reduce plastics?
Why are we as the people so reliant on something that clearly doesn't have our best interests at heart
Why do we put faith in a system that clearly no longer works for us, rather we fear it. That's terrorism by the way.
Hemp is not the answer. Much of what you see written about it is bullshit. It’s a good long-chain fibre, much like bamboo, gorse, cotton etc. Silver bullet it ain’t. It requires water, fertile soil, and sunlight. Right now we couldn’t switch our plastics production to organically grown material as we do not have the arable land to do it....which is the same problem with biofuels.
Yes, Australian media has hyped the ‘miners selling water’ story for years now. It is actually Australian farmers, who have been irrigating from nonrewable aquifers for over 100 years, who have done much more widespread damage to the land. Their desire to back burn has always been about clearing land for farming, not preventing fires.... they just used that angle as a way to force their desire to use fire to clear land as the bushfires increased in the last 10 years. Farmers have been happily illegally (and quite legally) using fire and earthmoving gear all along the east coast of Australia for a very long time, and can quite fairly be blamed for a huge number of environmental follow-on affects (saltwater intrusion in to aquifers, species die-off and reduced resilience, silt load in rivers leading to fish and reef death.....it’s a massive list)
Your point about government not representing the people is a real fear. Do the American people really want another war in the Middle East? Do Australians really want to burn their country down? All over the world people fee this lack of power......Eamon will be along shortly to talk about revolution.
I’ll be right behind him.
Government miss management is a big part of the blame. Farmers have not been allowed to back burn for years. The government is selling off the countries water to mining corporations to use in the fracking wells.
How come corporate entities are not made accountable?
Sure we as the consumer have some say, but in the end they are the ones that produce what and how we consume.
Why is the world not growing hemp so we can use the product to reduce plastics?
Why are we as the people so reliant on something that clearly doesn't have our best interests at heart
Why do we put faith in a system that clearly no longer works for us, rather we fear it. That's terrorism by the way.
Hemp is not the answer. Much of what you see written about it is bullshit. It’s a good long-chain fibre, much like bamboo, gorse, cotton etc. Silver bullet it ain’t. It requires water, fertile soil, and sunlight. Right now we couldn’t switch our plastics production to organically grown material as we do not have the arable land to do it....which is the same problem with biofuels.
Yes, Australian media has hyped the ‘miners selling water’ story for years now. It is actually Australian farmers, who have been irrigating from nonrewable aquifers for over 100 years, who have done much more widespread damage to the land. Their desire to back burn has always been about clearing land for farming, not preventing fires.... they just used that angle as a way to force their desire to use fire to clear land as the bushfires increased in the last 10 years. Farmers have been happily illegally (and quite legally) using fire and earthmoving gear all along the east coast of Australia for a very long time, and can quite fairly be blamed for a huge number of environmental follow-on affects (saltwater intrusion in to aquifers, species die-off and reduced resilience, silt load in rivers leading to fish and reef death.....it’s a massive list)
Your point about government not representing the people is a real fear. Do the American people really want another war in the Middle East? Do Australians really want to burn their country down? All over the world people fee this lack of power......Eamon will be along shortly to talk about revolution.
I’ll be right behind him.
