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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In the centre of the header is an image of a back-burning operation on the night of January 24 2020 in an effort to save a town in the Southern Highlands of NSW. This fire started in late November 2019 and travelled more than 100 kms before being halted. It was declared "out" some 74 days after it started when heavy rains came to the rescue.
Underneath the fire image is a picture of an iceberg (courtesy of Jonatan Pie on Unsplash) and is included because the current world wide situation is considered to be just the tip of the iceberg - with the bulk of the iceberg not visible. A "Titanic" moment in time.
On the right side is another Wake Up Call to the World - the deadly Coronavirus emanating from Wuhan, China in late December 2019 reaching Australia in the latter part of January 2020 - just before Australia Day!
During the Covid-19 Pandemic, the media usually focused on "The Curve" and hopefully eventually reporting a "Flattening of The Curve" as shown in the centre of the header image.
One thrust of this website is that The Climate Change Curve may not be all that different in importance.
In many countries from mid March 2020 there were massive stimulus packages announced ( the upright $ symbol), and the stock markets crashed, large gatherings banned, self-isolating measures put in place and severe economic stresses developed with huge losses on stock markets (the fallen $ symbol).
The Covid-19 crisis was/is considered to be a very bad economic crisis as well, being compared to the Great Depression of the early 1930s.