Tag: Bushfire crisis
Australia’s Black Summer of fire was not normal – and we can prove it
Image: Dan Himbrechts, AAP
The Black Summer forest fires of 2019–2020 burned more than 24 million hectares, directly causing 33 deaths and almost 450 more from...
No food, no fuel, no phones: bushfires showed we’re only ever one step from system collapse
Bushfires reveal a story we need to hear.
Picture: Australian Navy
This summer’s bushfires were not just devastating events in themselves. More broadly, they highlighted...
Scientists hate to say ‘I told you so’. But Australia, you were warned
Without a radical change of course on climate change, Australians
Australians will struggle to survive on this continent, let
alone thrive. AAP/Dave Hunt
Those who...
Scott Morrison’s biggest failure in the bushfire crisis: an inability to deliver collective action
Morrison has been too timorous to take the tough decisions
needed to prepare for the bushfire season,including confronting
rancorous dissenters in his own...
Listen to your people Scott Morrison: the bushfires demand a climate policy reboot
Scott Morrison’s response to the bushfires has been roundly
criticised as being too slow and out of touch. James Ross/AAP
Frank Jotzo, the director of...