Current Events > Australia to some residents: "It's too late to leave."

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This is actually kind of scary.

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Welcome to the 20s.

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"climate change is a fallacy" - multiple posters on this board

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That's crazy

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When Australiens are telling you to seek shelter in a lake, the ocean or a river, you know you are fucked.

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Damn Australia you scary
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"It's too late to leave, so shelter in your house, but if you see the fire outside run away".

Seems... counter-intuitive. Either it's not too late to leave, or it is too late to leave and you're fucked because your house is in a really, really dangerous spot.

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Hexenherz posted...

"It's too late to leave, so shelter in your house, but if you see the fire outside run away".

Seems... counter-intuitive. Either it's not too late to leave, or it is too late to leave and you're fucked because your house is in a really, really dangerous spot.

Correct. It even said there... Hope you can find an already burnt way out, but by that point it still is probably too late. So yeah, unless you're near a lake or something that's large enough to avoid the heat, it's just hoping for the best and if not that, then the next best. And if not that... :(

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If your home catches on fire and the condition inside becomes unbearable, you need to get out and go to an area that is already burnt
Jesus this literally sounds like hell.
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Holy shit

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This is some desperate stuff. We're talking about a raging tornado of flame that's 1500F or more. You can feel the heat a kilometre away. Hiding in your brick and or wooden home is not going to help.

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Just read that an estimated 480 million animals are dead. I mean I know that's a lot of small creatures too, but Christ.

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Is cotton and wool clothing really that smart to wear in temperatures/flames that intense?

MachineJaipur posted...

Is cotton and wool clothing really that smart to wear in temperatures/flames that intense?

Yes, it actually is. Obviously, being near the heat isn't ideal but when your choices are burning flesh or overheating, the latter is still better

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CyricZ posted...

Just read that an estimated 480 million animals are dead. I mean I know that's a lot of small creatures too, but Christ.

Boy I sure hope you never find out how many animals die every year for human consumption (which fuels climate change!)

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CyricZ posted...

Just read that an estimated 480 million animals are dead. I mean I know that's a lot of small creatures too, but Christ.

Arent koalas already endangered before all this? If so RIP koala species.

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MachineJaipur posted...

Is cotton and wool clothing really that smart to wear in temperatures/flames that intense?

Yeah denim is a safe bet too. Avoid anything synthetic that can melt to your skin like sports jerseys.

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This is the reality of a world where climate change becomes more and more severe

Unfortunately this will be far from the last time fires this severe happen

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Just want to bring up that this is not a new thing being rolled out with this bushfire season. Rather than have people risk their lives escaping a fire that is considered inescapable and having people burn to death in their vehicles in a last ditch effort to escape, the call goes out to let people protect themselves in any other way.


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Trigg3rH4ppy posted...

CyricZ posted...

Just read that an estimated 480 million animals are dead. I mean I know that's a lot of small creatures too, but Christ.

Arent koalas already endangered before all this? If so RIP koala species.

They are past mere endangerment. They are already functionally extinct.
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Rika_Furude posted...

They are past mere endangerment. They are already functionally extinct.

I read some articles in the wake of that announcement that chalked it up to misinformation. Koala experts stated that while the koala population has been spotty at times, and that the fires have been a tragedy, it wouldn't take one single event to wipe them all out.

If you heard the "functionally extinct" headline in November, know that it was alarmist rhetoric that caught on because koalas were on the mind, and because our fires in November were well and truly awful. I fell for it too - I snapchatted it to my friends. It was embarrassing having to correct folks after I put the idea in their head.

After this latest spat of fires? It wouldn't surprise me if koalas were actually functionally extinct this time. Let me know when the call goes out next, and I'll believe you.

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It's going to get worse.
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if only we were warned about things like this decades ago

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I'm sure Australia's PM will give this serious thought on his next holiday.

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Is this largely aimed at people who were told to evacuate before but didn't?
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The safest option is to take shelter indoors immediately. It is too late to leave.

Fuck that noise. Sounds like something a government would say to prevent panic and krowding. Grab some essentials and migrate in the opposite direction until you reach the ocean and pray you don't need a boat.

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To provide some scale, here's how this fire compares to the 2019 Amazon fires:


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There is likely to be a forced mass migration out of australia in the next few years. Those who cant afford or refuse to go will die like this.

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shockthemonkey posted...

And climate change deniers are going to continue to exacerbate these problems. This is so tragic.

Our prime minister, at best, is a climate change downplayer. The people leading our country would rather downplay climate change as a hippy-dippy leftist cause then listen to 24 former and current fire chiefs warning them about the worst bushfires Australia has seen in decades.

Earlier this year Scott Morrison commented on student protests against climate change, saying that they should stay in school. Well, the severity of these bushfires as far back as early November - which multiple experienced fire chiefs have indicated has only been made worse by climate change - caused 600 Australian schools to close in early November. He could have done his best to address these bushfire concerns a full 7 months before they blasted out of control, and while there would have inevitably been bushfires, he could at least have said he tried. Instead, he found it fitting to slag off a bunch of high schoolers who decided to protest because their country decided to risk losing one of the 7 natural wonders of the world for another coal mine.

That's all he does. He sledges easy targets and he talks up Liberal policy, and now because his pack of morons have decided that climate change is a leftist talking point they refuse to mention it because the Liberal-Nationals think it'll make them look weak. After all, he's got to appease the boneheaded conservative dickheads who would see our national parks cut down if it created more blue-collar jobs. Talking about the environment, that's something that bleeding heart Greens do. I'm going to focus on sledging the unemployed, the elderly and climate protesters as each and every one of them asks for help in ending their individual woe, then act like I did something useful and take an unannounced holiday to Hawaii while New South Wales burns to the ground.

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butthole666 posted...

There is likely to be a forced mass migration out of australia in the next few years. Those who cant afford or refuse to go will die like this.

If my nation can muster up a collective memory of more than a year and a half, we'll vote the fuckers out with any luck.

Australia has a lot to offer - we've just got a religious fucknut at the helm who tells shitty catchphrases at problems and hopes that his sycophantic supporters eat it up, a blatant xenophobe and hypocrite who decries all illegal immigration until his corporate buddies want him to fast track a visa for them, and a sycophant treasurer who parrots the hard Liberal talking points like saying something shitty enough times makes it justifiable.

If we cut these pricks out of Australia like the melanoma they are, and all of their similarly parasitic ilk who've been reaming this nation for profit over the last 9 years, we will be a lot better off. Folks like Rika like to slag off Labor, and they don't have a clean history either, but that's the same line of reasoning that leads to the same lamebrains voting Liberal at every election. We don't need a fucking mouthbreather like Donald Trump, we don't need a populist pig like Jair Bolsonaro. We need to give Labor a chance, give the Greens a bit of wiggle room to affect our environmental policy to prevent fires like this from happening in the future, and cull the absolute fucking farce that has been the entire 2010's of Australian politics. If you want to live in a nation ruled by a senile, drooling moron, then go to America and try not to get shot instead of pushing for Trump's special brand of lunacy to infect us. If you honestly think that shit will improve us, then fucking leave.

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also australia to victims "sorry, those firebugs were under 18. nothing we can do about em."

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MrMallard posted...

butthole666 posted...

There is likely to be a forced mass migration out of australia in the next few years. Those who cant afford or refuse to go will die like this.

If my nation can muster up a collective memory of more than a year and a half, we'll vote the fuckers out with any luck.

Australia has a lot to offer - we've just got a religious fucknut at the helm who tells shitty catchphrases at problems and hopes that his sycophantic supporters eat it up, a blatant xenophobe and hypocrite who decries all illegal immigration until his corporate buddies want him to fast track a visa for them, and a sycophant treasurer who parrots the hard Liberal talking points like saying something shitty enough times makes it justifiable.

If we cut these pricks out of Australia like the melanoma they are, and all of their similarly parasitic ilk who've been reaming this nation for profit over the last 9 years, we will be a lot better off. Folks like Rika like to slag off Labor, and they don't have a clean history either, but that's the same line of reasoning that leads to the same lamebrains voting Liberal at every election. We don't need a fucking mouthbreather like Donald Trump, we don't need a populist pig like Jair Bolsonaro. We need to give Labor a chance, give the Greens a bit of wiggle room to affect our environmental policy to prevent fires like this from happening in the future, and cull the absolute fucking farce that has been the entire 2010's of Australian politics. If you want to live in a nation ruled by a senile, drooling moron, then go to America and try not to get shot instead of pushing for Trump's special brand of lunacy to infect us. If you honestly think that shit will improve us, then fucking leave.

A year ago i would have agreed with you re labour but right now they need to be forcibly ejected from earth alongside the liberal party+supporters since they really are just another group of liberal party supporters now.
Ive been voting greens for a while now but realistically speaking they wont win any decade soon.
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RebelElite791 posted...

Boy I sure hope you never find out how many animals die every year for human consumption (which fuels climate change!)

Shut the fuck up.

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So horrible.
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dave_is_slick posted...

Shut the fuck up.

Youre right, being upset about millions of animal deaths while contributing to billions requires absolutely no self-delusion

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Might be wise to buy fire resistant suit just in case this happens near you.

shockthemonkey posted...

Yeah Dave, stop killing billions on animals

Do you honestly not see the logical disconnect in saying these animal deaths are so sad while supporting an industry that kills 50 billion per year?

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RebelElite791 posted...

Do you honestly not see the logical disconnect in saying these animal deaths are so sad while supporting an industry that kills 50 billion per year?

That's an average of like 6.6~ animals per human alive in a single year.

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gunplagirl posted...

That's an average of like 6.6~ animals per human alive in a single year.

Seems like quite a lot, especially considering not every human alive eats meat. And more agriculture is used to support livestock than would be used to support a vegan population. But, always amusing when the edgy teenage communists here who claim to be against suffering and for the betterment of all are such devout carnists

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Rika_Furude posted...

"climate change is a fallacy" - multiple posters on this board

Because your solution seeks to lower my standard of living while China and India go completely unabated, thats why nobody is going along with the bullshit

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Imagine actually responding to RebelElite in 2020.

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Roxborough4Ever posted...

Because your solution seeks to lower my standard of living while China and India go completely unabated, thats why nobody is going along with the bullshit

Well no need to worry because stuff like this will continue to lower the standard of living for everyone.

I've barely been able to take out my newborn daughter out of the house because of the constant smoke haze outside and I have it easy compared to the rest of the state.

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Holy shit its like if a real life Groudon was just released into the wild.

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Wtf @ rebel deflecting from the topic title to troll about eating meat
Holy fucking shit
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If they already said leave and they didnt listen Rip to those people but always leave no matter what get on a bus whatever to get out

Rika_Furude posted...

Wtf @ rebel deflecting from the topic title to troll about eating meat
Holy fucking shit

Yeah he can go shut the fuck up

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