The Summer Ahead: What you need to know about this bushfire season
The Briefing
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The Importance of Back Burning
There was a sense after Black Summer that it really drew our focus to the problem. We've only done 20% in New South Wales off the target for this year, but the two years before that, we basically did none. There's no longer an argument with the government about climate change actually existing and happening. But there's only so much you can do. And we will, at some stage, if we go past 1.5 degrees warming, then two degrees into uncharted territory. They're talking about parts of the planet that will be uninhabitable by humans. Sub-Saharan Africa, parts of the Middle East, being over 50 degrees and day and night temperatures, being basically
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