Another GirlieOnTheEdge six sentence blog prompt response.
If you watch the news, you see epic fire in flaring, high resolution, yellow and orange, with edges of black smoke.
If you watch the news, you see epic floods in raging, muddy currents, high resolution images showing people’s roofs and belongings floating downstream.
If you watch the news, you hear epic numbers—millions of acres burned, thousands of people’s homes flooded or burned, people drowned or burned.
Watching the news, you see whole landscapes covered in black sticks—the remains of whole forests and grasslands.
You’ll see seared animals, some of them in clinics wrapped in bandages; you see people visiting devastated homes; you see people weeping or keeping a stiff upper lip with glazed eyes; you see people trying to help with grossly inadequate resources.
Are you overwhelmed yet?
Certainly is overwhelming.
It’s heartbreaking. You do what you can to help, but it keeps going.
this one in australia has me spooked. Have we already passed the point of no regturn?
There’s no doubt devastation on a global scale has been a more regular occurrence than not. There are no words for the despair felt when viewing images of those whose lives will never, ever be the same. Loss of life, loss of natural resources, it’s all overwhelming.
It is so tragic with seemingly no way to help with immensity of it all.
I don’t usually give in to fear, but the fires in Australia have me really afraid for my children’s and grandchildren’s futures.