Deadly fires turn Australians into climate change converts, similar to California
Wildfires in Australia are overrunning vast ecosystems and their wildlife. Nearly half of Kangaroo Island has burned.
“I think there’s two conversations. There’s a political conversation — I think we’ve got a lot of denialism in this country about climate change … and the other kind is the conversation they have around dinner tables and barbecues,” said Greg Noarlunga, a South Australia State Emergency Services worker who was assisting crews on Kangaroo Island last month. “Maybe it’s those internal conversations that will change the direction of this.
The young family has only had the ranch for seven years, but plan on establishing deep roots in Cobungra. How that future will look in a changing climate isn’t a big concern for them, Plowman said. “Australia has struggled with climatic conditions for a long time,” Mackay said during a recent tour of the Loy Yang power station, which burns the brown coal that’s plentiful in the area. “People are sensitized to it, but they do recognize that they like their cars, they like their energy availability and they like to sell very large amounts of coal to the rest of the world.”
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