Country on Fire by whozit

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Country on Fire

POSTED BY: WHOZIT
UPDATED: Thursday, July 13, 2023 13:44
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Saturday, January 4, 2020 11:36 AM

I use to chat with Browncoats from down under in the chatroom a few years ago, I hope they're OK.

https://news.trust.org/item/20200104042806-6oz54

This is what Hell looks like

https://myfirewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au

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Saturday, January 4, 2020 12:22 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

In CA, drought, poor land management, lightning strikes, a few random a-hole arsonists and … eucalyptus trees, which aren't native to the land, help spread massive fires.

Australia has drought, poor land management, lightning strikes, a few random asshole arsonists and ... eucalyptus trees. And not just a few trees, dotted here and there, but entire forests of eucalyptus trees.

https://www.livescience.com/40583-australia-wildfires-eucalyptus-trees
-bushfires.html
( 2013 )

(2014)

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Saturday, January 4, 2020 1:58 PM

BRENDA

Canada has at least 70 firefighters down there and more are going to try and help.

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Saturday, January 4, 2020 2:37 PM

CAPTAINCRUNCH

... stay crunchy...

Quote:
Originally posted by whozit:
I use to chat with Browncoats from down under in the chatroom a few years ago, I hope they're OK.

https://news.trust.org/item/20200104042806-6oz54

This is what Hell looks like

https://myfirewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au

Thanks for posting whozit. I’ve been thinking of Magonsdaughter - hope she is ok too. What’s happening there is hard to wrap my brain around.

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Sunday, January 12, 2020 7:43 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

Rupert Murdoch’s Australian outlets have committed all manner of sins in their coverage of the country’s devastating bushfires. Led by The Australian broadsheet, publications in his News Corp empire have:

1) Falsely claimed the fires are “nothing new.” (A record 4.9 million hectares of New South Wales have been burned, eclipsing the previous highest of 3.5 million in 1974-5.)

2) Falsely peddled the argument that arson is a major contributor to the crisis, including publishing misleading information about the number of arson-related bushfire arrests, and downplayed the role of climate change.

3) Falsely claimed environmentalists have deterred authorities from preemptively burning areas in cool periods to stop the fire spreading. (The Australian Greens Party supports the policy.)

This week, a senior News Corp employee sent an all-staff email calling for the falsehoods to stop. Responding to an email by executive chairman Michael Miller that detailed initiatives to cope with the fires and leave arrangements for staff affected by them, Emily Townsend, a commercial finance manager, wrote: “This does not offset the impact News Corp reporting has had over the last few weeks.”

“I have been severely impacted by the coverage of News Corp publications in relation to the fires, in particular the misinformation campaign that has tried to divert attention away from the real issue which is climate change to rather focus on arson (including misrepresenting facts),” she wrote, according to the Guardian. “I find it unconscionable to continue working for this company, knowing I am contributing to the spread of climate change denial and lies. The reporting I have witnessed in the Australian, the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun is not only irresponsible, but dangerous and damaging to our communities and beautiful planet that needs us more than ever now to acknowledge the destruction we have caused and start doing something about it.”

More at https://qz.com/1783698/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, November 29, 2020 4:33 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

I couldn't find too many threads, or many posts at all, about Australia's wildfires last year.

Is the country getting set for another bad fire season?

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/29/australia/australia-fire-danger-int
l-hnk/index.html

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/severe-fire-danger-for-a
ustralia-as-temperatures-smash-records

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8991483/Australia-set-sizzle-
dangerous-heatwave-fire-warnings-parts-metro-Sydney.html

The Aussies are Burning, Australia is attacked by a Fire Storm
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=63442&p=1

2019 Australia on fire since September
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=63368&p=1

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Sunday, November 29, 2020 6:17 PM

REAVERFAN

It's sad that Australia's corporate overlords are so willing to destroy the very land they depend on.

So many rare species wiped out. We're on the list, too.

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Sunday, November 29, 2020 8:33 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Might I suggest that you try to enjoy life a little bit more if we're running out of time.

What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)

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Tuesday, December 15, 2020 1:52 AM

WISHIMAY

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)

You gotta admit he has a gift for making irony into a special kinda stupid...

I WILL HEARTILY DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS UNTIL YOU CAN SEE YOUR WRONGS
................................ https://refusefascism.org/....................................

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Thursday, July 13, 2023 1:44 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Satellite Timelapse Shows Ongoing Wildfires Burning in Pacific Northwest and Canada
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/satellite-timelapse-shows-ongoing-wildfires-
154009432.html

B.C. expected to request Ottawa’s help with worsening wildfires: minister
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/bc-expected-to-request-ottawa
s-help-with-worsening-wildfires-minister

Professor makes disturbing discovery after visiting land scorched by 2019 Australia wildfires: ‘The forests are quiet’
https://news.yahoo.com/professor-makes-disturbing-discovery-visiting-2
10000712.html

Burning question: Australia is set for a hot, dry El Niño. What does this mean?
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2023/07/burning-question-
australia-is-set-for-a-hot-dry-el-nino-what-does-that-means-for-our-flammable-continent/

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