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[quietliban]

Hi,

I am worked up right now. Worked up and shaking. I was cooly dispassionate yesterday when my mother informed me that half of Victoria was on fire. Why? Because we've dealt with this before. Bushfires? Yeah, they are scary and devastating and so many other adjectives like that but Australia has dealt with this before.So we should be able to

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[coffee_n_cocoa]

I've been worried about all of my Aussie f-listies. *hugs*

[quietliban]

Ta. It's a bit tense around here, so I can't imagine what it's like down in Victoria. I hope all flisters are okay.

[lyras]

I didn't have any real idea of the impact of all this until today. It's just horrifying in all sorts of ways.

[quietliban]

Yeah, it is. I've grown up with the idea of bushfires and this? This is unbelievable.

[magic_at_mungos]

I've been worried about by Aussie flistees as well because dude. That's some scary shit.

[quietliban]

I hope they're all okay.

[approximedic]

Usually I am dispassionate, and this is a terrible thing, and I read your posts about how the fact that you are dispassionate worries you more than the event/cause itself and think YES, thats precisely what is going through my head. But for some reason I still can't understand (thorough media coverage? excessive amounts ot touching piano music and voiceovers covering footage of people in their bleakest moments?) (I think it is the death toll, because I hear from my boy about how much flack they get for just one or two deaths, resulting in reviews, more policy, etc. here in WA, and then BANG, its suddenly ~200 deaths in Vic) I can only see reports about this and feel horrified.

[quietliban]

The media coverage (TV mostly) is utterly ridiculous, but I suppose that is what we get living in a digital age. Or so my mother says...

And I know right? How can you be dispassionate when such a terrible thing has happened? I think we're just to desensitised and also we know that we can get through it.

And yeah, the death toll is major and that's why there's so much concern, because fires like this haven't happened in a populated area for a long time. I can't imagine what it's like to be a firery in VIC right now and I don't want to think about the bureaucracy that's going to follow. ::sigh::

[eska_rina]

:/ *hugs* Ya know, I generally consider enviromental lost worse than human lost too(?) With human lost, people die - and that's more or less it. Enviromental lost, though, can affect humans, animals and so on in a long, long time afterward :/

This is becoming less so over the years and having experienced it, I do not think climate change is a hoax.
Anyone who still climate change is a hoax should be hit in the head with books with the weather statestics for the last many, many years! >:| Also, they should go visit the freaking Ice bears, gdskj.

[quietliban]

Exactly, but it's harder to measure and harder to understand. :(

And I know! But I work with people who say it's a hoax and these are intelligent people and I feel like shaking them and asking them where have the been in the last five years. Argh.