Omg, @Lovendures. This is heartbreaking. Thank you for posting so we can send healing and love and all the protection we can channel to them.
It gets worse, and worse. First the good news:
Mogo zookeepers save animals from bushfires but now face another threat
Other than that, it looks as if the worst is yet to come.
Two of the most populous states in Australia, NSW and Victoria are in a state of emergency due to bushfires. In my home state Victoria this is the first time a State of Disaster has ever been declared. It is for the eastern region of the state. In total the bushfires are burning in an area as large as Belgium. This does not include 3 other states, which are also experiencing bushfires. The scale of the devastation is immense, and evacuations are not proceeding according to plan due to the destruction, road closures and fuel shortages. Seven people have died, and 17 are missing. It is estimated that 30% of the Koala population has been wiped out in NSW.
Although I am a city dweller and well out of harm's way, I am emotional as I write this. Like Ernie, I have had a feeling of dread since the start of spring. Several weeks ago, I was sitting in the car at a red light when I saw the intersection briefly darkened by the passing shadow of a phoenix. I wasn't sure how to interpret this, but in hindsight I think it may have been about the fires. Perhaps, like the phoenix, Australia will rise from the ashes, better, angrier and wiser.
I am thinking about all those in harm's way around the globe. @erkmen-savaskan you are not a pessimist, you see things clearly and thank you for sharing your views.
@villager. Dear friend, I feel for you from the depths of my soul. When I first read about it, I could not stop crying. My husband and I held each other, all from thinking about what you all are going through. Please know we are with you, we are praying for you and for your dear country, for the people, the land, the animals. We send our love and pray for your protection.
While you are the first country to get hit like this, no place in this world will be spared the dreadful impacts of climate change -- the fires, the storms, floods, pestilence, food shortages, winds. And governments are not prepared.
Over half a billion animals have burned.
Koala Bears are now "functionally extinct"
Here is a Magpie singing fire engine sounds
(credit Gregory Andrews of Newcastle, Australia)
the heart is wrenched
What a photo. And the Magpie is just haunting. It made my 23 year old daughter cry.
We have no idea. I can not comprehend 1/2 a billion...anything let alone animals .
I will continue to pray for Australia. It will become part of my daily prayers now. Not just when I think about the people and animals ad land.
I am so sorry for what everyone is going through there right now.
@jeanne-mayell, thank you. The heartbreaking crux of the matter is that we are reaping the 'rewards' from an era that saw nature, animals and humans as 'assets' to be exploited. We know now where this ends, and our politicians are mostly being wilfully blind - perhaps because it does not benefit them to see things any other way. Every time we vote in Australia, I am astounded that the (neo-) liberal party wins.
I believe that our fires are closely linked to how indigenous history, culture and voices are routinely dismissed. Indigenous land management traditions in particular were never taken seriously. I think that it is no coincidence I that we are experiencing catastrophic fires at the same time as our government blithely dismisses the Uluru Statement from the Heart - a request to recognise Australia's indigenous people in its constitution, and begin a process of truth telling. Ernie has mentioned a need to grapple with Australia’s history of indigenous oppression before, and I agree. I think that the same is true of the US and Canada. I don’t mean to lecture anyone here, this state of affairs fills me with sadness. I also confess that I need to educate myself. I have some books I have been meaning to read - an especially relevant one today is ‘The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia’.
Governments are not prepared, and I am not sure they will be. We have been feeling the effects of climate change for a long time, what we have been seeing in the news globally is just the tip of the iceberg. Communities will have to step in where governments fail.
@unk-p, there are no words that can do this catastrophe justice. Half a billion.
I can post many pictures and many articles to show the extent of the catastrophe has come to since my first post here but you all are reading them now. 500 million animals died. Irreplacable ancient forests, which never burn due to the humidity they harbor, are burning. The beautiful habitat of this beautiful and fragile country is devestated. And it is not stopping yet.
Australia is experiencing massive evacuations she never has seen in history. And never the least, people are dying. What is happening with the moneymonger right wing government is what will happen with their "brothers" (they are patriarchal aren't they ? ) in the rest of the world. The attempted inhouse or international public relations tricks and denial - I have to say this - turns my stomach. The ignorance, rudeness, disrespect to human values attached to it is an example of human failure.
On the other hand, if the volunteers who are real heroes were not there, this crisis would have been much bigger now. No matter what anybody says. What a dicothomy :
The catastrophe here is not just what is happening to Mother Nature. The real catastrophe is human kind itself. The hubris and arrogance, the selfishness and greed - the nature of our kind ? - is making us the catastrophic infliction itself. The crisis of human kind is not just political today. It is ethical and this in an existential dimension. Our crisis is about deciding WHAT we are : a parasitic, expansionist, aggressive and greedy species that is set to invade other planets as well or, a kind, constructive, nourishing and compassionate one which is AWARE ? What is setting Australia ablaze today will occur in other places of the Earth in different forms. I am sure about it now. I see pictures of it in my visions everyday. Asia and Africa. The Americas. ... How are we going to confront it when hundreds of millions will have to be "evacuated" and a global emergency in a scale never seen before emerges ? Are we going to close our borders ? Use weapons ? use the situation for our own "national" benefit to make profits out of it ? Will our conscience allow us to consider ourselves more privileged than the ones who are not as lucky and let them perish? Are we going to go to war ? Leave Earth and go to Mars ? OR will we come back to our senses, roll up the sleeves and start work for a better world and much much better human kind ?
The dices are up in the air and are about to fall to show us what will be. It is NOW if we want to have an initiative.
My visions tell me that pain will teach us if we survive. I hope I'm wrong. I really do.
The Earth speaks to me here, it wants to speak to everyone now. Before it starts taking its own precautions as a living being, it is making a huge statement to remind us that we are dependent on it - dependent on what we are attempting to kill. We need a massive movement. And not just in patches here and there. We need a massive movement in the entire planet. Because this planet is bound to become what we are.
My heart goes out to all of you so very,very much.
I have been following the news on the catastrophic bushfires (our news in the U.S. has called them-apocalyptic- using the very biggest newspaper font headline since Christmas) with such heartfelt sorrow and empathic pain.
I have extended family friends in Melbourne/Sidney and just the horrific air quality had me alarmed. It was 11 times worse than it had ever been in our news).
But the horrendous deaths of the koalas was more than i could bear. I had so much happening in my own family helping husband, kids, brother through small to big surgeries that I focused my energies there out of necessity. Now, that they are home and healing before more procedures my already opened heart almost can't bear any more oain and suffering or fear of loss.
But like @jeanne-mayell and @lovendures, I am refocusing now to include my long distance non-local energies to all that is needed to change whatever is needed to change most.
I do not currently see that a change in the US, UK, or Australian leaders would create the change we need to see--now. I think our chaos has only just begun, so i am asking for dreams and visions and my angels to speak to me in any and all ways and to surround all of Australia, New Zealand and everyone experiencing a fiery summer to be surrounded by all future and heavenly realms of light with whatever is most needed--now!!
Deepest compassion and energies of love, angelic energies of light and healing to the hearts and souls of all of you and may those from any level, any kingdom, any state of being be brought forward and upward to true peace that is beyond our own beings understanding, to also work to save the people or animal or natural kingdoms of these great lands.
Blessings, power,strength to all of you from all of us here.
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They are expecting Saturday to be a very bad day with awful weather conditions.
"The grim forecasts come as the fires cause tens of thousands of Australians to evacuate and crews to struggle to contain the damage. New South Wales alone was ablaze with 137 fires as of midnight Friday local time, the southeastern Australian state’s Rural Fire Service reported, adding that more than 2,000 firefighters are working throughout the night.
Hours earlier, the group urged people in the fires’ paths to “leave tonight before conditions worsen tomorrow morning.” But for some, officials say, it’s too late to evacuate. Authorities in Victoria — where Premier Daniel Andrews declared a state of disaster and said 28 people are missing — are advising residents in several areas to shelter indoors."
Kangaroo Island was a particular concern Friday for South Australia Fire Chief Mark Jones, who said there were about 150 people deployed to fight fires there as flames broke through containment lines. A blaze of more than 50 square miles was “burning out of control” in scrub within the island’s Flinders Chase National Park, he said.