Bushfires in Australia
On 3rd January Mr Richard Flanagan (a novelist) wrote in the New York Times that the fires in Australia burned around 14.5 million acres – an area as large as West Virginia and almost six times the size of destruction by fire in Amazonia in 2019.
On New Year’s Day, the air in Canberra was the most polluted in the world partly because of a plume of smoke as broad as Europe. Upgrade to Basic Plan to unlock this content!This content is locked
As Australia is the world largest exporter of coal and liquified natural gas, Mr Morrison criticized the calls to downsize this profitable industry.
Bottom line
The rains in 2020 had been the heaviest of all times and caused floods in some areas. They had extinguished some of the bush fires that devastated the cities of New South Wales, Queensland and Melbourne. However, still, the bush fires are burning at dozens of places in Australia.
