Wake Up World - Climate Change is REAL
About the Wake Up World website
This website is in its embryo stage so much of the potential material is currently unpublished.
The structure of the website is indicated by the menu items although it is intended to add various categories in time. I will be looking for a number of (unpaid) contributors who are passionate about the state of the planet.
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This website was conceived in January 2020 following a stressful time with the widespread and unprecedented bushfires in Australia.
In New South Wales alone, the bushfires burnt an estimated 4,900,000 hectares of land from late November 2019 to February 2020. The fires followed an extended period of drought across Australia which destroyed crops and stocks of cattle and sheep. Some estimates of the loss of wildlife exceed a billion with many species becoming endangered.
Record high temperatures were broken and supplies of drinking water became critical for many towns and cities.
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The two balls on either side of the text are seed pods from a small Australian native tree - probably one of the 170 species of Banksia. The left hand one is from a tree that escaped the Morton Bushfire whilst the right hand one was partially burnt and was on a nearby tree. They are about 25mm (1 inch) in diameter. Perhaps they can represent a healthy planet and the world as it might become if the global community does not heed the Climate Change crisis.
The fact that these two pods were only a few metres apart is a demonstration that events such as bushfires and the current Covid-19 can impact at random. It is expected that overall Climate Change events will have isolated local impacts but these will become more frequent, more severe, more widespread and affect remote dependent communities. The cummulative effect may well be a very sad planet.
And it is happening quickly!
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