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This really demonstrates just what a severe situation we are in
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I just adore Aurora. This song resonates with the OP
I just love her.This is exquisite.
A small-town firefighter has written a powerful letter calling on Scott Morrison to acknowledge the impact of climate change and take urgent action.
Christopher Nicholls, from Merimbula on the south coast of New South Wales, urged the Prime Minister to stop offering 'prayers and thoughts from Hillsong' and start treating the devastating bushfires 'like a war'.
'This is a national emergency, not a minor weather event,' he wrote.
Mr Nicholls described the terrifying experience of fighting a bushfire and said he often feared he would perish in a blaze and never see his loved ones again.
'When my pager goes off in the middle of a hot, blustery severe fire danger day and I have to rush off to a bushfire, and as I am sitting in the truck proceeding under sirens and lights to the fire, I wonder if this might be my last day.'
The firefighter said he was not impressed with the 'platitutes and cricket news' from Mr Morrison, describing his 'thoughts and prayers' as a 'pathetic response.'
Mr Nicholls urged Mr Morrison to treat the bushfire emergency as if a war had been waged on Australia.
'The war is climate change, and the battles are fires, drought, intense weather events such as tropical cyclones and other climate related phenomenon in the new normal of the climate-changed world,' he wrote.
'The war is the long game - and will be fought over several decades into the future, so there needs to be planning and task forces and armies and technology and considerable ingenuity.'
Thank you Ella. Our situation in Australia is desperate. We have a rapidly deteriorating environment. No rain for more than a year in large parts of Australia. Towns have run out of water. Rainforests are now burning because they are, for the first time ever, dry. There are so many fires that Sydney is blanketed in smoke. There are massive regions where the forecasts are that it will never rain again in those regions.
Meanwhile, our Prime Minister is doing everything he can to support major polluters and avoiding his Paris commitments.
He offers prayers for rain but no solutions - it's Gods will apparently and he attends his evangelist church and raises his hands to the air while people lose their homes to fire. He and his ministers are very much climate change deniers. I know you are Christian Ella, but I am furious with the Christian community who fuel this the nationwide inaction. I regard the Christian community of Australia as an enemy of my generation.
Our national drought coordinator, commissioned by our climate change denying prime minister, states publicly that humans are not the cause of the acceleration of our deteriorating climate; and that if we all just hang in there, the rain will come, particularly if you pray hard enough.
I feel like I am at war with those who are in charge and responsible for my future and the future of our nation.
I hope she gets a Nobel prize. Of all the fights towards a better earth, this has to be the biggest fight of them all, and she is brave enough to shoulder the burden of criticism for her efforts.Oh! And guess who Time Magazine chose as their "Person of the Year" for 2019? I've given the answer away with my new signature.
Thank you, Cimorene, I didn't know that. She's very generous to mention me in the same thread as Greta.Zoii Idk if you saw but Ella wrote about YOU in a post she wrote in another thread about Greta being named Time's Person of the Year.
Greta Thunberg Is Time Person of the Year for 2019
Thank you, Cimorene, I didn't know that. She's very generous to mention me in the same thread as Greta.
You are a wonderful example of a Christian, Cimorene, as is Ella. Drown out those who ridicule our generation and continue the fight for our existence.