Burning Australia

Yesterday was the first time since invasion that no rain fell anywhere in Australia.

Thanks to the racism of invasion, land management practices honed over tens of thousands of years have been ignored and the country may as well now be extensively rigged with explosives.

Climate change plus the colonial practices of draining land of all life, today leaves a city of 6 million people at risk of devastation. The fire won't burn all of Sydney, but no part of it is safe.

People will be fleeing disaster on roads that follow paths maintained by first nations people for thousands of years.

People will be running for their lives on land that has only become dangerous thanks to invader stupidity.

Invader stupidity has it's own traditions: never look to the cause of a problem, always blame a scapegoat, keep doing what you're doing because that's how we farkern do it and of course during a disaster get very angry at anyone pointing out why it's happening and after the event learn nothing and become an even bigger cowboy fuckhead.

This summer we will all share the experience of breathing in vaporised koalas.

It would be easy to think it's too late to do anything about it and anything we do try will be ignored by the powerful and if we make a noise about being ignored we will be crushed. Because it's probably true. This is the climate change future: we have to build a movement equipped to meet the challenges despite the fact we appear to already be defeated.

So it's just another day at the office for anyone who's been paying attention.

I add to this that many sciencey types don't accept indigenous knowledge because they don't reckon thousands of years of non-imperial, non-colonising existence is evidence of practices that work.

Lots of science people are fuckheads. All our coloniser traditions are suss as fuck and we need to throw them all away if we want to survive.