Politicians fiddle as Tasmania burns. Freakishly new infernos blaze across 200,000 hectares; three per cent of the Apple Isle. Climate change fuels fires which now ravage fragile, ancient, high-altitude ecosystems that are not adapted to fire at all — relict forests from when Tasmania was a part of the vast Gondwana supercontinent, 180 million years ago at least.
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| Helicopter battles bushfires in Tasmania’s Southwest wilderness. |
Tragically, stands of pencil pines and magnificent King Billy Pines are gone forever.
Like an arsonist who must return to the scene of the crime, ScoMo-FIFO pays a flying visit to the Huon Valley, Monday. His quick pit-stop photo-op earns him a serve from The Greens’ Nick McKim who tells Scott Morrison to stop the nonsense; accept responsibility. And climate science. Stop pretending the Coalition has a climate policy.
“Climate science is clear that Tasmania will face more bushfires and they will be more dangerous as a result of burning fossil fuels. Fossil fools like Mr Morrison should stay out of Tasmania until they are prepared to accept the science and adopt a decent climate policy,” McKim tweets. Ouch. ScoMo sulks and sooks; gets all huffy.
Morrison’s untimely riposte is to tell Nine Media that “many bushland areas in the state were unaffected by fire.”
Read the AIM Network story by David Tyler - “Climate change is making an already bad situation catastrophic. It’s worsened by a Federal Coalition in denial.”
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