A CONTINENT ON FIRE

ight now, Australia is ‘ground zero’ for the global climate crisis. The Great Barrier Reef is dying, its world-heritage rain forests are ablaze, the giant kelp forests have all but vanished, multiple towns have run out of water, or are about to, and now over a third of the entire continent is burning. And what’s worse is all of this was foreseen. In fact, over a decade ago a report commissioned by the Australian government predicted that climate change would cause the country’s