Climate change and the consumer - news

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@SueW

That was frightening. Really.

Which has been dismissed as:

@mark_m

An emotional infomercial style report selling the impact of climate change in Norway.

I guess it’s a worldview/values thing.

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Denialists scoff that we’ve always had bushfires but, if the bush burns too frequently and/or too fiercely, it won’t recover.

Yes, the Australian bush is recovering from bushfires – but it may never be...

Although fires are natural in Australia, they’re now occurring at an unprecedented frequency and intensity in areas that, historically, did not burn. This new regime does not allow the effective recovery of natural systems to their pre-fire state.

Future fire seasons will not be normal events, or even some kind of stable “new normal”, to which humans and nature will readily adapt. We’re seeing a trajectory of change in which our climate will shift faster than most living things can tolerate.

The Australian environment evolved with fire and in past conditions, could recover from fire. However climate change has altered the rules irrevocably.