#aussie bushfires

[aglarts]

drawing of myself to start off the new year and also because australia is still on fire and our prime minister is hopeless SO if you’re able to donate a dollar or two to NSW rural fire services (see here) and are able to send me proof of donation, i will draw you a rough sketch of One character of your liking, so as long as you don’t ask for anything NSFW. fires are still raging right now, so any help is appreciated!! just pm me for more details and the like

[everyoneprotector]

[docd666]

To any of my Kiwi followers, if you look outside right now, is your sky yellow-tinged? I think the fires in Aussie & the smoke from them have arrived in NZ.

[tigerponygirl]

Hey, so something I really wanna talk about as an Aussie who is very clued into a lot of the shiz the rest of the world's media is dumping with regards to the whole "Australia is on Fire" thing: while bushfires are normal here, and have been for centuries, the scale of the ones we have right now coupled with the fact the country is still in the middle of a drought does not make things easy. I know there are medias out there around the world saying that Australia has been the problem of global warming and now the country is burning in karma - while I will not say we don't shoulder a proportion of the blame, I know we've been trying for a decade to minimise part of our "footprint" - eg most homes in qld are fitted with solar now, and kids learn in primary about saving energy and lessening their global footprints. Part of the fire catastrophe is due to the government's inability to conduct regular backburning to lessen the fires impact when they hit. Keyword: lessen, not stop. Fires in Australia are inevitable (even if there are Aussies who forget or ignore this fact). There are many factors that come into play when you live in a fire loving environment and if you are one of those people out there who is believing what the media is going on about (like why, I think everyone *knows* by now that the media skews shiz and needs to be taken with a grain of salt), just.... idek, maybe research what happens when fire, heat and drought mix then come back here with your findings to tell me Straya is killing the planet if you can. I'm open to talk about this more if people are interested in what's happening.

[fortjester]

i mean sure, yeah it’s fucking sad that koalas are becoming endangered, and that thousands of Australian natives are dying due to the bushfires, but as someone who lives in Australia, we are much more fucking concerned by the people being displaced and our homes being destroyed. so sure, donate for the koalas and shit but if that’s your only reason that’s fucked.

[aziraphalesangel]

can you believe it's been a year?!

[sasha-portfolio]

Australian Bushfire Fundraiser commission for Zoe - Koala and Dandelions

[sasha-portfolio]

Australian Bushfire Fundraiser commission for Janine - Magpie and Grevillea flowers