Australian forest wildfires, an unprecedented burning, the earth has entered barbecue mode? So who is the target of the barbecue?
Combined with the latest reports, wildfires in Australia are intensifying and show no signs of stopping at all. Satellite images taken from above the Earth show that forests across eastern Australia appear to be burning, covering more than 50,000 square kilometres, more than twice as large as last year's Amazon rainforest fires.
More than 500 million wild animals have been burned to death, kangaroos, raccoons, and human-raised cattle and sheep, and the corpses pile up on the roadside are shocking. Australia's national treasure koala, already threatened with extinction, lives in a highly flammable eucalyptus forest, and due to slow action, it is unable to escape the fire, and refuses to believe that it has been burned to death by about 30%.
The number of deaths from forest wildfires has reached 24, more than 2,000 homes have been burned down and hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced.
According to satellite photos, the burning line of fire in New South Wales alone can be connected from Sydney to the entire Indian Ocean and then to Afghanistan in Asia. More than half of Europe is shrouded in smoke, and even the skies in New Zealand have turned orange-red.
Australia's forest fires, like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, have even developed their own weather systems that have altered the local climate. Smoke enters the sky and forms cumulus clouds at heights of ten kilometers or even tens of kilometers – this cloud is mostly caused by volcanic eruptions and nuclear weapons explosions, forming extreme thunderstorms, lightning dances, fire tornadoes raging, fire embers are blown away by the wind, triggering new fire points, Australian wildfires have been completely out of control, the situation is grim and desperate.
Why are Australian forest wildfires so severe? The main reason is that the temperature caused by the warming of the earth's climate is rising, the air is dry, and the trees are more likely to catch fire. Chris Field, director of environmental research at Stanford University in the United States, said wildfires are a hallmark of the impact of climate change on Earth and that Australian forest wildfires are among the worst, if not the most serious, extreme events he has ever seen on climate change.
Other meteorologists claim that the disaster caused by climate change will become more and more serious, and the earth will ignite more wildfires and bring more disasters in the next decade.
It seems that the earth has really entered the barbecue mode, and all life, whether animals or humans, is probably the object of barbecue. As the initiators of this protracted catastrophe, although we can sacrifice a little less with our ingenuity, the animals on the earth are not so lucky, as evidenced by the deaths of hundreds of millions of wild animals.
As all life gradually enters the history of the earth in the catastrophe of climate warming, how do we face the questions of our own descendants:
Daddy, Daddy, what's a tiger?
Mom, Mom, what does an elephant look like?
Grandpa, Grandpa, are there still lions on earth?
Where are Grandma, Grandma, and the birds?
Grandpa, Grandma, is there really only one kind of animal on the earth, us humans?
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