With a hot day predicted, I am out early to do my short walk before the heat really hits.
Fire bans are already being put in place in some districts. This feels like mid summer; whatever happened to spring?
We know the northern hemisphere was devastated by heatwaves and fires in their summer; now it’s our turn.
Yet here in NSW coal is still being approved, as with the HVO mine (and encouraged) to be dug up and exported to add fuel to global warming. There are no global borders.
Will the government take the blame for what happens to us all this summer?
Will there be good repercussions, like reversals, after the recent High Court ruling that such greenhouse gas emissions elsewhere from our coal have to be taken into account?
I have to seek solace in nature to combat my anger at the regressive state of our world.
Even with only distant land in sight, the beauty of sky and sea is pure. Yet that faint brown line above the land horizon denotes the hazard reduction burning that has been being carried out in the hinterland.
Hopefully helpful, as I have seen bad fires burn right back over recently ‘hazard reduced’ forest. But people can only take limited measures to prepare for these unstoppable extreme weather events.
On the very same morning walk, face a different direction, towards the sunrise, and I am given another picture.
The sea is not blue but pewter, except for the slim spotlit patch of sea that is silver. The scattered battalions of clouds are backlit dark, appearing to be showering rain far out to sea.
It does help my spirit to witness these ephemeral events, more than the walk helps my body, I am sure!