it's pink, bitch

Hello May,

Why is no-one in your country reporting on Australia right now, because half of the east coast is on fire. In less than a week we’ve lost over 1 MILLION hectares - or 2.5 million acres - of land to bushfires (one fire in particular has burned almost 150,000h ALONE). 350 koalas are confirmed dead from one park on fire in one day. Unprecedented and immeasurable native losses across the other parks on fire. People are dying, and are missing. Over 200 homes are lost. The warning is literally catastrophic and there is total fire bans all this week. 600 schools closed today, 200 to stay closed tomorrow. The air quality in Brisbane was worse than Beijing today. Two fires started in suburban, metropolitan Sydney. Not on a farm. Not in the country. In between a university and main road. Two minutes from a train station. A 25 minute drive from the Sydney CBD.

This is what Australia looks like from space at the moment:

And this is the current fire map (you can barely even see where it reads Sydney for god’s sake). I included the legend too just so everyone knows what we’re up against.

We’ve got government problems for sure with all of this, but I’m not worried about those politics. I’m wondering why I haven’t heard a single American news site talking about this. Or any news site that isn’t Australian or New Zealand (who had to report on it because so much smoke was travelling so far that the air quality deteriorated). come to think of it. Our news was FLOODED with the Cali fires. I’m not saying this is a competition, I’m not saying you or us have it worse off. But why does nobody in the entire world other than Australia have any idea what the fuck is happening. We all talked about the Amazon. Why aren’t we talking about this.

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