Australia's Blue Mountains, a World Heritage Site, have been ravaged by fire. Writer Tishani Doshi reflects on the incalculable loss of this ancient forest.
Novelist Tishani Doshi on the ‘ecotastrophy’ threatening the wildlife and prehistoric landscape of Australia’s Blue MountainsI CAN’T STOP LOOKING at images of Australia’s bush fires. One composite 3-D visualization created using NASA satellite data makes the country look like a charred lung turned sideways, a gash of a continent ablaze.
A friend writes to say they are going through an “ecotastrophy”—early estimates of over a billion animals dead, more than 27,000 square miles of scorched land, and apocalyptic red skies that have drifted over to New Zealand. Another friend tells me about how she goes to sit in the fire ground to connect with what’s left. The other day she heard black cockatoos perched in burned-out trees make a sound she could...
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