28 December

Of course climate change intensified these bushfires. But there’s a deeper problem I think, as always it comes back to our ideas. Our idea of ‘the bush’ (and thus ‘bushfires’) is the direct cause of this disaster. This piece says with pride that it’s a sentimental term for Australians. Sentimentalism is almost always code for “we don’t have a clue how this thing works, but we feel strongly about it”. Almost the definition of most things Strayan.