"Looking
back now and after going through it, we were never ever going to stop
it. It was igniting 12 kilometres in front of the fire.”
[Toorooka
farmer Carolyn
Duff
speaking about the November 2019 northern NSW bushfires, ABC
News,
16 November 2019]
"They’re
saying it’s the Greenies stopping us from doing these
hazard-reduction burns,” one firefighter says. “It’s the lack
of fucking resources and people to do it. No
one joins up until the shit hits the fan.”
[The Guardian reporting on November 2019 northern NSW bushfires, 17 November 2019]
“Today is not the day to talk about climate change.” No, yesterday was, or the day before, or the month before, or the year before. But it didn’t get a mention. Now we have the reality, and the mention it gets is: “Don’t talk about it now.”
[The Guardian reporting on November 2019 northern NSW bushfires, 17 November 2019]
“Today is not the day to talk about climate change.” No, yesterday was, or the day before, or the month before, or the year before. But it didn’t get a mention. Now we have the reality, and the mention it gets is: “Don’t talk about it now.”
[Wytaliba
resident
Badja
Sparks
writing in The
Guardian,
15 November 2019]
"The
persistence of climate denialism in Australian politics reflects the
wealth of mining and energy companies prepared to use a deeply flawed
political system to wield power.”
[Journalist Bernard Keane writing in Crikey, 18 November 2019]
[Journalist Bernard Keane writing in Crikey, 18 November 2019]
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