The sun sets over Sydney through bushfire smoke.
The acrid haze that has choked the entire Sydney basin and much of NSW for the last few weeks, as a result of catastrophic bushfires, came to a dramatic head tonight at sunset.
Smoke could be seen billowing out to the north and west of the city as a portent for the start of summer and as a sign that we are in the midst of a climate emergency.
Despite crippling drought and the devastation of bushfires across the country, there has been a deafening silence and conspicuous inaction by government leaders on the front of combatting climate change.
It seems we are sleepwalking into a catastrophe…
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