https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Australia-s-dark-age-of-climate-catastrophe https://internationalviewpoint.org/Australia-s-dark-age-of-climate-catastrophe 2020-01-10T05:13:36Z text/html en James Plested Ecology and the Environment Australia Climate <p>It is impossible to find words appropriate to the immensity and horror of Australia's bushfire catastrophe. Day in day out for months on end we've been bombarded with harrowing images and accounts of death and destruction – of roaring walls of flame over 100 metres high; of deadly “fire tornadoes” powerful enough to flip fire trucks; of bushfires creating their own super-cell thunderstorms with lightning strikes sparking new blazes ahead of existing fronts; of giant plumes of smoke turning day into eerie, pitch-dark night; of thousands forced to huddle on beaches and cower on boats as ash and embers rain down on them and their communities burn before their eyes; of convoys of evacuees stuck on roads blocked by flames, while others await evacuation by sea; of whole towns burnt to ashes by fires so intense that no fire fighting force on Earth could stop them.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV540-January-2020-" rel="directory">IV540 - January 2020</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Ecology-and-the-Environment-+" rel="tag">Ecology and the Environment</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Australia-+" rel="tag">Australia</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Climate-+" rel="tag">Climate</a>