Comment on LA is on fire. How will Australia cope when bushfires hit Sydney, Melbourne or another major city?

Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You think modern houses — more glue and plastic than solid timber — aren’t going to explode into flames? Modern suburbs are tinderboxes.

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• TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It the people of officer could read they’d be very VERY upset right now.

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can see this being picked up by the right as an argument against walkable urbanism (“all that density is a deathtrap!”) and in favour of the car-dependent quarter-acre-block sprawl that is Our Sacred Way Of Life.

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• muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sad but true.

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