Our forests are burning throughout three states at this current moment, despite the countless hours, days, weeks that firefighters have been heroically battling the tenacious beast. At this current moment more than 5 million hectares of land has been burnt which is horrific in comparison to the 900 hectares in the Amazon fires. And yet some people still believe that there is no connection between the fires and climate change. Our emissions rates have also skyrocketed as a result of these fires, having burned through two thirds of our yearly allowance in the last few months alone.

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