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| France on fire. Ringside view |
This couple are of course unable to do anything about the fires that burn in Europe, or even in the UK. I ceased saying anything years ago about climate change. It has only been on the table this last 30 years, people just did not want to know. And we, so like this couple will sit back and watch, listen to the ceaseless arguments about fossil fuel being 'needed' and some will wonder at the laziness of the population in not making more direct action to at least remedy what is happening now.
People will be evacuated, wild life will be left to their fate. Land will be scorched and crops burnt. Not a future we should leave for our children.
What a world, what a world. I hadn't seen that photo. Looks like a sci-fi movie. Awful.
ReplyDeleteI suppose it is a scene you would find in war Ellen. Scary. Apparently the fires create their own wind.
DeleteThe photograph works because the couple's calm posture is so ordinary while the horizon behind them is anything but ordinary. That contrast makes the image a useful record of how people can become spectators to a crisis that feels too large for individual action. Your final point about evacuation, wildlife and scorched crops brings the discussion back from abstract arguments about fuel to the immediate losses that repeated fires create.
ReplyDeleteYes, hope you are not a robot by the way, it grabs the attention with the two things it exposes so graphically. The photographer was just snapping beach photos. It will make an impression of course but very fleetingly.
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