The world has reacted to Australia being swallowed by flames

Media outlets around the world continue to react to the dozens of blazes burning across the country with the New York Times taking aim at Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Smoke haze seen during a sunrise over inner west suburb
 of Erskineville in Sydney, NSW on December 6, 2019.

With 96 bush and grass fires still burning in NSW - 47 of which are not contained - photos of Sydney’s sepia-toned sky and blood red sun continue to dominate social media feeds.

Global publications and angered readers have shown no mercy, blaming the Australian government and their failure to address the current climate crisis while calling the nation “the indirect architect of its own demise”.

Read the story from The Courier Mail - “The world has reacted to Australia being swallowed by flames.”

Australia’s prime minister pledges to outlaw climate boycotts, arguing they threaten the economy

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison railed against environmental protesters in a lunchtime speech on Friday, warning of a “new breed of radical activism” that was “apocalyptic in tone” and pledging to outlaw boycott campaigns that he argued could hurt the country’s mining industry.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his wife
 Jenny leave after attending the inauguration of Indonesian
President Joko Widodo for a second term, in Jakarta on Oct. 20, 2019. 

The remarks were made to an audience at the Queensland Resources Council, an organization that represents peak mining interests in the northeastern Australian state. The proposed limits on protest quickly drew condemnation from human rights groups and activists.

“From ending slavery to stopping apartheid, boycott campaigns have played a critical role in achieving many social advances that we now take for granted,” Hugh de Kretser, executive director of the Human Rights Law Center, said in a statement.

Read the story from The Washington Post by Adam Taylor - “Australia’s prime minister pledges to outlaw climate boycotts, arguing they threaten the economy.”

(Maybe Scott Morrison should consider that his inaction on climate change is “apocalyptic in tone”  - Robert McLean)