‘Heartbreaking’ fire in Grampians grows to more than 74,000 hectares
Firefighters have worked tirelessly through the night to protect homes from a bushfire that continues to burn through Grampians/Gariwerd National Park in Victoria.
There are two emergency warnings current for the Grampians including for the communities of Pomonal, Moyston, Willaura, Mafeking, and Maroona.
The fire had burnt 74,000 hectares of bushland in the park, popular with hikers and campers and famous for its jagged rock formations and spring flowers.
Luke Heagerty, from the State Control Centre, said more than 600 firefighters had sacrificed their family time at Christmas, to work on the fire and protect homes.
He said the blaze grew from 6000 hectares a week ago, to more than 74,000 hectares this morning.
“So, the magnitude of that, it is somewhere around the size of Singapore,” he said.
At its worst, last night, there were 12 Vic Emergency warnings in place.
ACT, NZF and National are Climate Fascists who have done everything to bend over backwards for the interests of the polluters at a time when global warming can no longer be portrayed as a socialist hoax.
The disconnect between the bribed Political class and their polluter donors vs the people living with the realities of climate change is beyond the current political spectrum and I can only see more mass civil disobedience or the rise of eco terrorism.
As the speed of climate change hits us, as the true cost of our denial is realised – protestors will get angrier and angrier at the inaction.
We are in the age of consequences now and the reality is ‘Fire Season’ will become the only season in a never ending doom loop where the heat and damage from extreme climate events will only become greater and greater.
As catastrophic climate change produces more extreme storms that will compound upon one another in never ending seasons of misery, blight and damage, let’s start naming the Storms after the NZ Political Parties and Companies that are causing them!
Seeing as our Political Class and Corporate class continue to water down environmental legislation, they should be named for the storms they generate!
Hurricane Fonterra
Cyclone Luxon
Typhoon Winston
Super Typhoon Shane Jones
Hurricane BP
Cyclone Todd Energy
Typhoon Silver Fern Farms
Hurricane Air NZ
Cyclone NZ First
We are simply not ready for what a cascade climate failure looks like.
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Rapid and catastropic climate change ,unfortunately, will be the great leveller.
Mankind has achieved some extraordinary feats of engineering and medical advancements but …it’s achilles tendon is pathological greed , selfishness and mindboggling stupidity by those who have bought their way into power.
The whole year on year growth, model that people like Luxon aspire to, is unsustainable and always has been….what a naive simple person he and his ilk are.
Captain’s of Industry…pfft…i don’t think so..
No more than short termism greedy fucks out for themselves
He’s pushed everything out to 2050…good luck with that…such blind stupidity it beggars belief…
Of course he’ll be gone at the next election…if not before.. so the hospital pass will be thrown to someone else.
Unfortunately it will all just have to play out…down the mine we go.
You climate doomers are in a rabbit hole.
Wake up.
I am well awake
…and well read
I think this short item on RadioNZ from West Australian man Tim Winton makes reference to your points Grant.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/537623/ten-of-the-best-rnz-celebrity-interviews-of-2024
Tim Winton: ‘We’re on the razor’s edge’
West Australian writer Tim Winton told RNZ’s Saturday Morning about the barbaric and blistering future depicted in his epic new novel Juice, in October.
The “terrifying feeling” of being under the sun at 50 degrees Celsius is something the Australian writer and climate activist knows from personal experience.
“We’re not built to live like that and we won’t. I’m afraid most of us won’t live like that.”
In Juice, the 64-year-old drops his readers into a dystopian desert culture where chaos reigns and life is cheap.
“Let’s just hold our noses and go into this world for a while and see how it feels and see if there’s anything we might learn from it,” he told RNZ.
“What we do now in the next six or seven years will probably determine the fate of the earth,” he said.
“It’s hard to know which way we’re going to go. My fervent hope and belief is that we will find ourselves, that we will do the right thing.”
We have Grampians in Nelson NZ and maybe there is an area near Scottish-background Dunedin. But this news is about Australia.
…Grampians/Gariwerd National Park in Victoria.
The fire had burnt 74,000 hectares of bushland in the park, popular with hikers and campers and famous for its jagged rock formations and spring flowers….
This adds to what alarms us in NZ. How much alarm are we able to feel for others problems as they grow, ongoing, and fed to us 24/7? Have we any energy left for our own concerns, as we sink into government deliberately fabricated poverty, when we have been driven to despair over the rest of the world. We are tiny remember,
I notice that there seems an attempt to drag our firefighters into a multi-nation group. I do not like the look of this for us here. It should not be automatic that we get called up because of 5 Eyes connection and the bigger countries taking eyes off their own affairs and own vulnerable environment while they poke into others’. Remember the Marshall Islands outcomes. We are being used by bigger wealthier nations to their advantage and our mischance.
We have a retinue of yes-men and changelings in charge of NZ, many of them not born here, or having no commitment to the country at all. Their commitment is to the New World Order and f…that. It shrinks the world into mainly dark or shrivelled areas and places of bulk high apartments, with spots of green and swimming pools for the deserving and f… that too. But what to do when we see the events of Brazil’s Amazon forest people as example?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_the_Hole
…On 24 August 2022, the Man of the Hole was found dead in his last home by FUNAI agent Altair José Algayer.[1] He was found “lying down in the hammock, and ornamented [with macaw feathers] as if waiting for death”.[2] There were no signs of violence or any other disturbance before his corpse had been discovered by FUNAI. It was estimated that he had died in July and was about 60 years old at the time of his death.[1] The body was transferred to the state capital Porto Velho for autopsy, in an attempt to establish the cause of death.[2] The man’s burial, originally scheduled for 14 October, finally took place on 4 November after a court order to FUNAI to release his body.[18] He was buried in a traditional indigenous funeral at the same location where his body had been found in August. His burial place was desecrated by farmers shortly after, leading to renewed calls for permanent protection of the land where he and his people had dwelled.[19]…
Lawmakers in Brazil pass bill to pave highway through …
NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com
20 Dec 2023 — The lower house of Brazil’s Congress has approved a bill to relax environmental licensing to pave a highway cutting through the heart of the Amazon.
Why Brazilian officials want to pave a highway in the Amazon …
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ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
https://abcnews.go.com
19 Sept 2024 — A pledge from the Brazilian president to pave a road that runs through the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from environmentalists.
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Case Study: The Amazonian Road Decision
National Geographic Society https://education.nationalgeographic.org
19 Oct 2023 — The proposed Pucallpa–Cruzeiro do Sul will connect the Amazon’s interior to urban centers and export markets in Peru and Brazil.
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“The forces of destruction are taking advantage …
Everland.Earth https://everland.earth
4 Jun 2024 — He found a fragile ecosystem threatened by expanding roads and illegal activities like logging and drug trade. The single-engine plane landed on …
Amazon deal lacks concrete measures, say climate activists
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BBC https://www.bbc.com
9 Aug 2023 — The eight countries that share the Amazon basin have fallen short of an agreed goal to end deforestation.
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Inadequacies of the Amazon Fund: Evaluating Brazil’s …
Touro Law Center https://www.tourolaw.edu PDF
by P Mason · Cited by 7 — Latin America’s economic emphasis has historically been in commodities and the Amazon rainforest continues to be a casualty of boom-and-bust…
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Oil company breaks agreement, builds big roads in Yasuni …
Mongabay – Conservation News
https://news.mongabay.com
5 Jun 2014 — A new report based on high-resolution satellite imagery has uncovered that the company in question, Petroamazonas, has flouted the agreement’s conditions.
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Amazon rainforest activist under threat in Brazil plans to …
Mongabay – Conservation News https://news.mongabay.com
30 Jun 2022 — Erasmo Theofilo is no fugitive or criminal. The 34-year-old is a soft-spoken agroecologist on a mission to change the world.
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Indigenous defenders stand between illegal roads and …
The Conversation
https://theconversation.com
29 Sept 2022 — The 2022 elections could be a turning point away from deforestation, unsustainable road building and the targeting of Indigenous lands.
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Ir will be a fight to the death probably in the Amazon similar to Gaza and Israel. There is a dark shadow over parts of the world similar to that of Jung’s reference to Europe.
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