Bushfire devastation in Australia – A warning to the World ?

Australian states battle bush fires every year – but little has compared to the widespread devastation of this fire season. Australia’s raging bushfires are so bad that satellites thousands of miles above Earth can easily spot their flames and smoke from space.

It hurts my heart. Give them strength to get over it. #prayforaustralia pic.twitter.com/NEM7ZvtUOS

— Yesung (@shfly3424) January 7, 2020

The fires likely started naturally, though experts think human-caused climate disruption has exacerbated hot, arid conditions that fuel the growth of such blazes. Current estimates suggest eastern Australia’s bushfire crisis has scorched more than 14 million acres of land, killed about half a billion animals, and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. As reported by CNN,

About 2,700 firefighters were battling the blazes as of Sunday.

Officials say 24 people have died nationwide this fire season.

About 480 million animals have died across NSW.

Almost a third of koalas in NSW may have been killed in the fires, and a third of their habitat has been destroyed

In December, the smoke in Sydney was so bad that air quality measured 11 times the “hazardous” level

In total, more than 14.7 million acres have been burned across the country’s six states.

Forest fires in Australia kill over 500M innocent animals.
Please pray for Australia.#PrayForAustralia pic.twitter.com/dmyKDCzE1b

— kuleshwar sahu (@kksahu97) January 5, 2020

The 2018 wildfire season was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire season ever recorded in California, with a total of 8,527 fires burning an area of 1,893,913 acres (766,439 ha), the largest area of burned acreage recorded in a fire season, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) and the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC).

The 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires season saw a year-to-year surge in fires occurring in the Amazon rainforest. It is estimated that over 906 thousand hectares (2.24×106 acres; 9,060 km2; 3,500 sq mi) of forest within the Amazon biome has been lost to fires in 2019. In addition to the impact on global climate, the fires created environmental concerns from the excess carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide within the fires’ emissions, potential impacts on the biodiversity of the Amazon, and threats to indigenous tribes that live within the forest. The increased rates of fire counts in 2019 led to international concern about the fate of the Amazon rainforest, which is the world’s largest terrestrial carbon dioxide sink and plays a significant role in mitigating global warming.

Stop Playing with Nature !

‘Stop playing with Nature, When Nature comes to play with you, that will be the end of your existence !’ 

Everyone needs to realize one fact that nature doesn’t need man but man needs nature. Forests are shrinking due to urbanization, concreteization, industrialization, ‘smart’ projects. There is a lot of deforestation for the new project. Humans are encroaching the forest lands, while wild animals are entering the residential area and attacking Humans.

Hindu Dharma teaches us that ‘Nisarga Devo Bhava’ i.e. Nature is God. Among 84 lakhs species, plants is also a species; therefore, there is life principle in un-manifest form in plants. Hindus worship plants like ‘Banyan’ and ‘Peepal’ trees on certain days while ‘Tulsi’ plant is always worshipped in house of every Hindu. All customs and rituals followed under 16 ‘sanskars’ of Hindus, right from birth till cremation, are conducive to preservation of nature; however, due to science and technology, condition of environment has considerably worsened in past 150-200 years. Abiding by Hindu Dharma is actually protection of environment and Universe. This message should be spread by Indian Government at global level for giving momentum to the movement of protection of environment in true sense !