#australia bushfires

[novocaineheart]

Was settling in for a movie night with my parents to show them the FNAF movie, 30 min in we all get phone alerts to be ready to possibly evacuate from a nearby bushfire.

Does the FNAF movie want me to die in a fire?

[strawberrylabs]

POV: it's the start of bushfire season in Australia and you already can't see the sky through the smoke.

I'll try not to burn alive for you pookies <3

[soup-mother]

in the same vein as that last post about cottagecore and American colonialism, there's this incredibly pervasive attitude in Australia that "everyone (settlers) live on the coast and noone (important) lives in the interior", so you get genius ideas like "let's divert a river and flood central Australia for farmland!" and "lets sell of huge swathes of land to mining companies" like people haven't been living there about longer than anywhere else on earth. it ties into the colonial view of deserts and lack of care for ecosystems but it's genuinely such a mainstream idea that noone lives there and it's just going to waste, terra nullius still alive and well unfortunately.

diversity win this gay coloniser wants to "move into the bush" with their fifteen cats they let run wild and will go straight to the governor general if someone shoots them for being invasive. this sure doesn't look like the frontier wars! it's cottagecore!

[wewantclimateactionnow]

"One the eve of crucial UN climate talks COP27 in Egypt, Australia has announced its intent to bid for hosting rights in 2026. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE The federal Energy Minister says it will be a chance to market the nation as a renewable energy powerhouse. Chris Bowen will be one of more than 35,000 delegates in Egypt this week as world leaders enter talks that will shape the global climate response this decade."

[gwydionmisha]

Stay safe, folks.

[phoenixfire-thewizardgoddess]

There are many ways to help find your horses or even cattle

The last photo was from a commenter mentioning they have little tracking tiles in the collar.

Bushfires are everywhere, be prepared.

We are dry, it is windy, and there are so many cunts setting things alight by accident with cigarettes out the window, or deliberately

Have your important papers in a fireproof safe or ready to go.

IF the firis say get the fuck out, you do that.

Have your medications, scripts, mobility aids and some clothes to hand to get out asap.

Have any pet carriers ready to go and a plan for how to get your furbabies into the car.

Have a plan for the livestock, even if it means letting them free to run for it too.

Have your plan ready, people. You only get one chance, make it count.

[nat-of-personifs]

I asked this question to my science class during my wildfire fixation, and I’m curious to see what people say here. I’ve read a few books about them and always found it interesting how California and her associated firefighting agency are listed on the same par with countries.

[what-shitfuckery-is-this-ew]

its the middle of winter why are there bushfires

[aceoffangirls]

Given the fact that we are only just in Spring now, its only 28°C and I walked outside and saw the smoke in the atmosphere I am really not looking forward when it hits summer. I have watched the rest of the fires devastate the rest of the world and I am really scared for this summer. Although there were only a few small fires or grass fires today, given all the La Niña’s and El Niño’s we have had, I am worried.

[canberramaidan]

View of the Brindabella mountains from the Mount Stromlo Observatory outside Canberra, Australia.

The observatory was destroyed in the 2003 Canberra firestorm.

[alphabetcrashcourse]

Welcome back to summer!

[chipped-chimera]

Maybe I should just quit the internet and go run off into the woods.

[anguilliforme]

call this section of eastern victoria the 900sq km of "fuck you"

[tenthhdoctor]

I was going to let this go, but I can't stand it anymore.

What is UP with Evilive and Australia???

(This is a joke btw and not at all serious I love this show)

Okay, so I haven't heard of an 'E2' class Australian visa. No big deal. But it made me curious as to what it was, so I briefly looked for information on what visas Australia had in 2008 and...I couldn't find anything referencing an E2 visa for someone emigrating from South Korea to Australia. What I can find is an E2 class visa for someone emigrating from Australia to South Korea. I can also find an E2 visa for someone emigrating to the US.

So: 1. I'm dumb and missed something. 2. The writers were familiar with E2 visas because South Korea has them, and the US has them, so like...who would notice?

(Side note: They are emigrating to Sydney!!! Whoo NSW representation!!!)

But this...this was what broke me:

???

??????

Okay. So, you're exporting to...Sydney? Maybe? Sure, lets go with that because literally nothing else makes sense (except Newcastle??? Which has a major port, apparently). And then bypassing Brisbane to ship to...Gladstone, Queensland? Okay, sure. I googled it and they seem to...export a lot of stuff, and have a major port there, so maybe they import too?

And then...what.

Where even IS that in WA (Western Australia)???

Oh! I looked it up and it's most likely Port Hedland, which is apparently another major port! The largest bulk...export...port in the world, supposedly. But maybe they import as well? (Okay, so it DOES import, but wow the difference between the import and export numbers is...a lot. Wikipedia even has 2008 statistics. Neat!)

Wow, the attention to detail sure is great in this show, but...uh...

Why???? Coal????

Why are you shipping our major export, that we export to you, our #3 export market in 2008...back to us?????

Like...it's just about the only thing we do. We export coal. I learned about our coal industry in school. Our richest person is a billonaire mining magnate. One of our former Prime Ministers became a joke for saying, "Coal is good for humanity." And then my university lecturer for Environmental Law got so pissed she put the quote in our final exam as an essay question.

But I digress.

I still looked it up to see if we import coal and export it, and the answer is...no. We do not.

LNG and ORE are also unlikely, as they're some of our other major exports (well, Iron Ore is). I can't find a lot of data from 2008 specifically, but the 2016-2019 data isn't good (compare imports on pages 52-53 with exports pages 54-56) and it seems recently (2021-2022) our major imports from South Korea included refined petroleum and cars. Not Ore and LNG. However, despite being the #1 exporter in the world for Iron Ore in 2021, we were the #42 importer of it too, so that one's possible imo. LNG though? Not as likely as ORE, because we export it and seem to supply it domestically, but way more likely than Coal.

Conclusion?

For a scene that barely lasts 2 seconds, the level of detail is crazy. I'm genuinely very impressed.

Also. It is hilarious that Seo Do Young was planning to sell us coal. The end.

[aztralsea]

It's very firey weather at the moment, hot dry thunderstorm with dry grass all over the place. I'm in a good spot and should be fine but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a little scary

[illegally-blind-and-deaf]

Me, a 17 year old with ADHD and sleep deprivation in the car: *spots a fire danger sign* gasp! The fire rating is high!

Me: *hisses* stop doing drugs!

My 50 year old father who has dealt with me making stupid noises with the pipes at the hardware store for about half a hour: wh-