I thought this bit made an excellent point
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It was around this time in 2020 that the US was helping Australian firefighters with a catastrophic surge of blazes during what became known as their Black Summer. If the same thing happens this year, both governments will be in an impossible situation.
Maybe not this year but one year soon this WILL happen. We voters aren’t taking any of this seriously, so neither are our politicians… be prepared.
After literally going through Black Summer (fire all around us), we moved to a place of zero bushfire risk in rural Tasmania. Even smoke triggers my partner who fought in those fires for 4 months, no pay. Hard to pay the bills
I guess what we need is nuclear submarines /s
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-change-calls-for-managed-retreat-from-beachfront-properties-20250124-p5l6xp.html
I see that the available land area is shrinking at an increasing pace. Pretty sure water resources are dwindling similarly too. I see zero reasons to so much as congratulate pregnancies these days. The gains, which are codified in laws in the form of rights, to me, look basically like promises made by lawmakers to their citizens. Lawmakers are people too. And people keep their promises on a best effort basis. With dwindling resources, I see the ability of lawmakers to uphold rights shrink and dwindle too.
Like I said at the start, verboten, and I’m fine being alone on this. Though would be good to have company.