I thought this bit made an excellent point
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It was around this time in 2020 that the US was helping Australian firefighters with a catastrophic surge of blazes during what became known as their Black Summer. If the same thing happens this year, both governments will be in an impossible situation.
Maybe not this year but one year soon this WILL happen. We voters aren’t taking any of this seriously, so neither are our politicians… be prepared.
After literally going through Black Summer (fire all around us), we moved to a place of zero bushfire risk in rural Tasmania. Even smoke triggers my partner who fought in those fires for 4 months, no pay. Hard to pay the bills
I guess what we need is nuclear submarines /s
We still aren’t even close to repairing all the damage from Black Saturday, let alone being at the point of ‘recovery’.
I do disaster relief and our organisation is at operating at its limit to cover everything that hits us every year.
I can’t imagine how our infrastructure is meant to cope with more of this happening more often.