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130+ Wildfires Spark Call for ‘Climate Emergency’ Action in Australia
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September 11, 2019
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1:08Now PlayingAn outbreak of bush fires in Australia just days after winter officially ended is stoking fears that the world’s driest-inhabited continent faces a disastrous summer and increasing pressure on the government to take more action to combat climate change.
More than 130 fires have destroyed homes and threatened lives in Queensland and New South Wales states in an alarmingly early start to the nation’s bush fire season. While firefighters are hoping that cooler weather expected on Wednesday may give them a reprieve, authorities are warning that some blazes could continue for weeks.
Greens and independent lawmakers plan to band together in parliament Wednesday to demand the government “declare an environment and climate emergency and to take urgent action consistent with internationally accepted science.”
“We are facing an existential climate crisis that threatens life as we know it,” the group said in a statement. “With record drought and Australia ablaze barely a week out of winter, it is time to tell the truth about how severe the climate emergency is.”
While the government says it’s on target to meet its Paris emissions-reduction targets, critics say Australia is not doing enough. The nation derives the bulk of its energy from burning coal, a fuel that last year was its largest export earner.
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