We have been following with the utmost alarm what has been happening in California – houses burnt down, forest fires close to San Francisco, photographs of fires near the national park at Point Reyes, friends on stand-by to vacate their houses: it’s beginning to look like the end of the world. No doubt climate change deniers will claim as in Australia that it’s just a normal occurrence and the way that nature renews itself, but it doesn’t look that way:-
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I don’t know about California but here in Australia the government estimates that between 25% and 50% are deliberately lit. For Australians and Americans in those areas it’s a double whammy….bushfires followed by COVID or vice versa.