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the long arc

I don’t seem to be posting a lot about dance and art at the moment but I couldn’t help but post this clear and succinct summary of the terrible meeting of politics and climate change:

Now, as the country faces one of the worst natural disasters in its history, a short-term, transactional austerity politics has collided with the long arc of climate change in a way that is clearly visible on the ground.

– Royce Kurmelovs

theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/04/australia-bushfires-week-of-anger-scott-morrison

Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

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