Yesterday, I wrote about global warming is a major factor in the huge bush fires plauging Down Under right now. Today, and with anger, I also have to note that some hooligans have used the excessive heat in Australia to start some of those fires -- on purpose. The death toll has skyrocketed in the last 24 hours to 130.
This is no time for leniency. If those responsible are caught then they should be charged with murder. I simply cannot understand how people can use an opportunity like this to make a real crisis so much worse -- draining already strained resources away from such things as crop failure insurance as well as getting a country used to a new reality that may very well be permanent.
This is wildfire season Down Under, and such fires come just as surely as the change of seasons. But there is no comprehension. None whatsoever. I can't say for certain if cooler temperatures would have meant fewer people dying. But the tinderbox should not have been put there in the first place giving cowards the opportunity to potentially make things that much worse.
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