Horrifying Thread Reveals How Devastating The Australian Fires Really Area

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Ada Elder
Jan 2, 2020 7:00 PM EST

Devastating bushfires in Australia have killed eighteen people (nine since Christmas Day) and 480 million animals. The fires, which are burning large swathes of land in New South Wales and Victoria, is even predicted to have caused a massive decline in the koala population. While most people with access to the internet or television is aware of the tragic fires, not everyone truly understands the magnitude of the flames that have resulted in massive evacuations in the afflicted states. Twitter user 

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    Text - Bodie Ashton @manwithoutatan I want to give some perspective for people not from Australia. More Aussie land is currently burning than exists in the entire country of Belgium. The smoke is causing breathing problems in New Zealand, 2,000km away. Half a billion animals have been killed. Eight people are dead.
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    Text - Bodie Ashton @manwithoutatan · 21h Replying to @manwithoutatan One-seventh of the state of Victoria is on fire. The fire front in the state of New South Wales is so long that, if you made it a straight line, it would stretch from Sydney to Afghanistan. The fires are being fought by volunteers. 271,299 4,864 15 Bodie Ashton @manwithoutatan · 21h The Australian government refuses to discuss the fact that the NSW fires have now been burning for three months, and will still be burning in thre
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    Text - 1 22% ll AT&T 4:39 PM Bodie Ashton @manwithoutatan 21h The Australian Prime Minister, at the height of the crisis, went on holiday to Hawaii, which his office first denied and then insisted he was trying to get home, but it's impossible to get flights from Honolulu to Sydney (???) O 22 27982 4,544 Bodie Ashton @manwithoutatan · 21h The New South Wales emergency services minister has also gone on holidays. And in the midst of this, the prime minister has declared that the country should ta
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    Text - Bodie Ashton @manwithoutatan 21h It is true that Australia has bushfires every year, but the sheer scale of this event is unprecedented, as well as the fact that the fire season is now so long that typical preventative initiatives, such as backburning, are far too dangerous. 27744 3,824 8 Bodie Ashton @manwithoutatan · 21h The devastation in Australia right now FAR exceeds the Amazon fires or the California fires by MANY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE, and there is no expectation that it will recede
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    Text - Bodie Ashton @manwithoutatan · 21h Public buildings have been forced to close in Sydney and the capital, Canberra, because the smoke is concentrating in the ventilation systems, and is setting off building fire systems. 27 664 3,146 Bodie Ashton @manwithoutatan 21h The average temperature across the entire country has been above 40C (105F). Australia is roughly the size of the contiguous United States. Imagine it being that temperature on average ANYWHERE in the country, from Denver to Bo
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    Text - Bodie Ashton @manwithoutatan · 21h So, if you were wondering why I keep yelling that @ScottMorrisonMP is a coward who must resign, this is why. He didn't start this, no. But he is the prime minister who, in this moment of Armageddon, continues to insist that climate change is not worth talking about. 27 1,073 6,043 19 Bodie Ashton @manwithoutatan · 21h And it is HIS people who, learning that two people had been killed, quipped that it was okay because they "probably voted Green." This man
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    Text - Bodie Ashton @manwithoutatan · 9h Also this, concerning distances. I said that New Zealand is still a way away from Australia, yet is affected by the smoke. For non-Aussies or non-Kiwis, this might help you visualise it a little better: twitter.com/ manwithoutatan... Bodie Ashton @manwithout... · 10h The distance from Sydney to Wanaka is 1,950km (or 1,212 miles in the old money). For reference for Europeans and Americans, that's only a small distance shorter than London to St. Petersburg,
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