I know I have written in the past about why I am proud to be Australian that was also about how our country comes together in time of need especially when we had those bad fires in Victoria a couple of years ago but now it is floods. Something like this you always think is a disaster that would not happen where you live and you never think that your whole house and every possession you own would just be washed away in a matter of minutes It's only something you hear about on the news that you don't give a second thought to. Now that this has happened once again the true spirit of our fellow Australians is shining through Army, SES, Fire, Police and thousands of volunteers who have travelled from around the country to help the affected people out of the kindness of their hearts have all gathered to clean up you see on the news random people helping out others clean out their houses and helping them salvage anything they can. Not being in one of those affected areas you feel so helpless and think how can i help? So every week i will be donating $10 until our country starts to get back on our feet I figure It's the least i can do.
As the title of this post reads What's going on? i wanted to talk about what the hell has our country done to deserve this? mother natures wrath has come too swiftly It makes me ask that question and as the past year has shown the huge earthquake in New Zealand the devastation in Haiti and the Volcanic eruption that crippled Europe's airspace Is this the act of Global Warming have we pushed mother nature too far? and will the world ever agree on how to tackle climate change. I thought Hurricane Katrina would have made America start doing something about it but most governments just want to ignore it sweep it under the rug pretend it doesn't exist while every year the snow gets deeper the sun gets hotter and the rain pours harder how many people have to die before the world takes an interest. Our world leaders may use it as an election campaign promise and everyone thinks yes finally something is going to be done about it but like every politician who becomes a leader they just ignore the problem for the term of their leadership we keep falling for it because I think we all want to believe that they are telling the truth but year after year It's the same.
The one thing i will say about a politician in our country who Is Queensland Premier Anna Bligh her sheer determination and sincere empathy for the people in her state has been inspiring even when she broke down crying during a press conference i just knew that she was not a person who would just say It's a terrible situation and we need plenty of donations like native Kevin Rudd has. So what happens now do we rebuild to suit the recent weather patterns, learn from what's happened or just build where everything was before like our country did in 1974? one hopes we learn from past experiences and desperately wishes that this will never happen again however I can't help but feel that this will not be the only mass scale disaster in the world this year but i hope my thoughts are 100% wrong.
I think what has happened is that we've become complacent to these awful disasters that are impacting our global village - it feels as though it's too easy to pretend that it's a distant occurrence and that we won't be impacted. We're too short-sighted.
ReplyDeleteDisasters seem to be hot topics in news broadcasts when they happen, but rarely do we look back and see the destruction it's caused to so many lives - it's not the kind of news people like to see apparently and that says a lot about our society.
I really hope for the sake of generations to come that we learn to change this and focus on what we can do to change it, as opposed to just surviving it.