[docdeek]

If you are right, what would voting in an ALP or even Green government have done to avert global climate change and these fires? And when would they have to have been voted in to have stopped these fires being so obviously devastating?

I understand that any movement towards a goal is useful to a certain extent but Australian domestic policies have little (but not no) impact on global climate change.

[moosey]

But it would have been one less major government working against the ecological systems that we still depend on.

When all is said and done and we've defeated climate change, the future generations will look back and wonder how we could have been so callous about the beautiful cacophony of life we had. All of this unnecessary political naysaying won't change it, but if you're seriously asking this question out of frustration that nothing is being done, then advocate.

[docdeek]

It's frustrating that an insufficient plan is in place to address climate change in Oz but also frustrating that I keep reading suggestions that under a different government the fires wouldn't have happened or would've been less destructive. Especially when links are made to the most recent election result, I just find that unrealistic. A different election result recently wouldn't have impacted the fires at all; it might have had an impact on future fire seasons (I still think a small one considering the global nature of the climate challenge) but that's something very different.