Australia is in Crisis.
Hello, tumblr.
Some of you might be vaguely aware of the horrific climate emergency in Eastern Australia right now. Some of you probably don’t know anything about it. Either way, I want to shed light on what we’re currently experiencing right now and raise awareness because far from being the ‘lucky country’, it feels like we’re approaching the apocalypse.
I’m making this post to try and raise awareness, because it feels like no one but Australian’s are talking about this. It feels like we’re alone out here on our dusty, smoky, dying island, without any aid from the rest of the world.
Please read this, and then reblog. I will also share links at the bottom for agencies and charities who are in desperate need of donations.
What’s happening in Australia?
New South Wales, Australia is currently experiencing the worst drought in living memory. 65% of Queensland is also suffering through drought, with other states all experiencing lower than average rainfall. Towns are running out of water. Water restrictions are so tight, people can’t shower or wash their clothes. One town in western NSW has to have their water delivered to them, because their rivers are dry.
Farmers are suffering. Animals are suffering because they can’t be fed. Indigenous culture is suffering because their connection to the land is being disrupted. Last week, a farmer near where I live (central western NSW) lost over one thousand cattle to the RSPCA because he was unable to feed them. Prices for food are going up, which means people are unable to feed themselves properly either.
But that’s not all.
Queensland and New South Wales are on fire. Over Two million hectares (nearly 5m acres) of bushland has been burned this fire season, and we are currently only six days into summer. By comparison, less than one million hectares (around 2.2m acres) was burned in the 2019 amazon wildfires. Koalas are in real danger of becoming functionally extinct as a result of these fires. People have lost their lives, and our fire fighters are at risk every single day they are out there trying to control the uncontrollable.
(images from the sydney morning herald)
The air quality in NSW is so bad, people with respiratory conditions have been continuously warned to remain inside. Sydney is stuck under a blanket of smoke, and has had worse air quality than Beijing more than once.
This was Sydney yesterday (05/12/2019)
(Image from twitter)
And what is our government doing about this?
Absolutely. Utterly Buttfuck Nothing.
Our government is made up of evangelical morons with their heads in the sand and continuously deny climate change. They (both the governing Australian Liberal National Party, and the opposition Australian Labor Party) refuse to take decisive action on climate change. Australia is NOT on track to meet its already inadequate Emissions Reduction Target, and our Prime Minister would rather go and hang out with billion dollar corporations for a photo op, and offer ’thoughts and prayers’ while our country burns. He also likes to claim that there is ‘no link between climate emissions and the bushfires’ despite being warned repeatedly by multiple fire chiefs that this season could be our worst on record.
Scott Morrison is more worried about kids ditching school to protest against climate change than he is the 608 homes that have burned and families that have been displaced by these fires.
Australia is suffering, our government doesn’t care, and we need the international audience to know about it.
Please reblog this post. talk about this. and if you can, please donate to our suffering farmers and firemen and women out there trying their damndest to keep us safe in the midst of a catastrophic climate emergency.
DONATE:
Rural Aid:
Drought Angels:
Buy A Bale For Farmers:
NSW Rural Fire Service:
Australian Red Cross:
Port Macquarie Koala Hospital
St Vincent DePaul Bushfire Appeal
