Video Diary of Apocalypse: A Family Flees Australia's Fires

[@ursamagickmt672]

This looks like HELL. Or at least Hell's Waiting Room.

[@Praisethesunson]

Quick! Someone give the coal industry another subsidy!! -Australian government

[@robynadams8925]

louis43233 Why not they don’t pay tax

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

I'm skeptical of this claim

[@rhorizon]

@@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd Paid trolls usually are.

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

@@rhorizon yes everyone who doesn't agree is a troll. No wonder you think the sky is falling.

[@rhorizon]

@@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd Here are actual facts: climate.nasa.gov/evidence

[@MilkyWay-tk5rm]

What if one day Australians find themselves as immigrants waiting to be accepted like the people in Nauru at the door of other nations? Every soul deserves to live in dignity.

[@athousandIQ]

You are damn right!

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

Sounds good. How about we arm those seeking a safe life and let them go fight their oppressors?

[@sojournern]

@@athousandIQ yes, guess when the shoe is on the other foot things might look different.

[@currysues]

@mirrored window What are you going on about?

[@kensol2579]

@@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd put the crack pipe down son, Jesus...

[@jjutt87]

Cute ending 💕 Be safe, I love your reporting and seems like you're a loving father /husband too!

[@danilomadalijr4979]

Oh god imagine you trying to flee from the bushfires until suddenly your gas runs out...

[@MusicforSweetyinSD]

Thank you for sharing your experience with is Eric. I hope you're family is well. Stay safe!

[@barbarasmith6005]

Hey, I live in Central California, and I know more than I ever wanted to know about wildfire smoke.

[@DungeonMetal]

Glad, Eric, Ariane, and the kids all made it out safely. Hope they stay safe. Thanks for everyone for the work.

[@robynadams8925]

It’s called no rain and record breaking high temperatures across Australia. 60 percent loss of wildlife that will never recover. Sadly it’s not coming back from here for a very long time if ever especially if the temperatures keep rising as they have been doing each year. They need to stop corporations water mining and draining the aquifers like they’ve done on Tamborine Mountain, Springbrook and in many others springs that they get their greedy hands on. It’s despicable

[@kathleenlowy9699]

Robyn Adams obviously corporate media will ignore tis as much as possible., keep most Amerikans asleep., the way they like it-as long as it doesn’t affect them (for now), personally, they don’t care...

[@robynadams8925]

Kathleen Lowy We need to ask the Queen to relieve Sco mo of his duty as Prime Minister. He has been negligent in his duty of care. He needs to stand down.

[@ashdog236]

But the wildlife is already growing back though...of course it was always going to.

[@beasaroze5596]

5:20 I thought they were gonna start singing "Our house in the middle of the street."

[@ramon475]

The worst part is that people just hope this season will be over soon, but it will happen again next year and the year after and the year after that etc. It's only gonna get worse, I'm so sad

[@daspook3257]

Hello, I'm trying to locate the owners of this footage to use in a documentary. Can you please direct me to the appropriate contacts? Regards, Luke

[@lotta7235]

How can they sit calmly? 😱 Why are they not getting out?

[@gerbelleyeow3030]

Just imagine finally moving to your dream home, then one day, you have to evacuate and leave everything behind. I feel really sad seeing these australians leaving their homes i just cant imagine myself doing that :(

[@sojournern]

If only there was some way of making that smoke on mar a lago

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

And they say TDS isn't real.

[@lovely-mk4rt]

mirrored window You have done nothing but spread your hate and ignorance. Go away asshole!

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

@@lovely-mk4rt didn't realize you owned the internet.

[@nyb_ok]

Sydney, were new year celebrations so important?

[@connie-mtz]

*Prayers for Australia* 🙏🙏This should be our priority, not WW3.

[@antonm7138]

What about action on climate change instead of just prayers?

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

@@antonm7138 ok when do we star bombing Chinese coal plants?

[@Bluebelle51]

@@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd interesting that you bring up Chinese coal plants since they've closed most of them in favor of solar, hydro, and wind just like we should be

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

@@Bluebelle51 Really. Do send me a link.

[@Bluebelle51]

@@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/world/asia/china-coal-power-plants-pollution.html

[@kawaiihedgehog2146]

Their children are beautiful

[@danielbeauchamp2317]

visions of apocalypse

[@athousandIQ]

Beautiful ending: "Whose street? Our Street" It seems like daddy is going to turn this little kid in a political activist. That kid is blessed. It can look forward to a solid upbringing and a clear world view. He might even join Extinction Rebellion! Welcome to our ranks, kiddo... We owe you our moral outrage about the criminal inaction of our politicians. We will bring the oil companies down!

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

Or you know he could grow up happy and have a family and teach his son not to pander to hysterics.

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

@Vladimir_Bone Spur_tRump uh huh

[@officialWWM]

Why are there English subtitles on an English speaking video?

[@Dihorse371]

Ask who is against climate change prevention initiatives.

[@Hulachowdown]

Australia is burning and most people are more worried about how many likes their insta post makes. Just makes me cry that with all our technology, we can’t help these poor people and all the animals.

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

Pragmatism, Inc.

[@Tzor17]

Why are all the fires in line with the high speed rail sys that they want in.

[@pietersteenkamp5241]

Why will you believe everything but the fact that the planets climate is always changing and that we may be accelerating whatever was already happening?

[@Tzor17]

@@pietersteenkamp5241 still stand by what was said

[@pietersteenkamp5241]

@@Tzor17 What are they building australia that is so large they have to burn down so much of the south east interior? Really? Just a big scam to convince the rest of us climate change is real? Will the people who don't want to believe it be convinced with ever larger forest fires or will they just say that we need more fire fighters and make better preparations and are they even wrong?

[@joblo497]

Why did they not have the Aborigines teach them bush management instead of cutting down all the watershed forest

[@pietersteenkamp5241]

​@Vladimir_Bone Spur_tRump I was actually trying to expose a previous posters rather paranoid conspiracy theory about the Australian fires... If you want to pick a fight i am sure i can think of something controversial/interesting to start one so there really isn't any point to misrepresent what i said...

[@helixtitan1027]

it looks a lot worse than anything from California ... since I don't know anything about Australia. Does this happen every so often? Has it ever been this bad? are these area largely populated? like I just don't know enough. SCARY but I want to know more.

[@SugarcideAnimations]

Here in Australia we do get bushfires often but nothing like this has ever happened before. These are the worse fires on record. And the areas that these fires are in are affecting highly dry bushland areas where only a few hundred to few thousand people live in, its mostly wildlife that live in these areas which is why 1Billion animals have died unfortunately.

[@Mokke121]

Humankind is doomed. And we can only blame ourself. This will be the start of it.

[@aesynergy]

Humankind? U thinking us regular ass nobody people got any say in anything that happened and is happening to this dying planet 😭😭😭

[@bobomaigret5430]

No worries. Science is stupid. -- Trump Administration

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

So you admit politicians can I influence science?

[@bobomaigret5430]

@@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd For reference, please see The Republican War Against Science -- Chris Mooney

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

@@bobomaigret5430 Mooney is a Climate Grifter.

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

@@bobomaigret5430 if One team can manipulate data to serve their pay masters, why not admit it's reasonable for the other team to do the same?

[@bobomaigret5430]

@@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd Yes, the strategy is to pretend, as you are doing, that that is what is happening. The strategy, created by the tobacco industry, was adopted first by Newt Gingrich in order to fight health regulations, and is now the go-to for Evangelicals fighting against evolutionary biology and against the geologists, biochemists, physicists, Earth scientists, chemists, engineers in 200 scientific societies around the world. In the real world, symptoms of the right-wing contempt for knowledge and expertise include: Donald Trump's cuts in science funding, the American Academy of Sciences calling Trump out for his lies and stupidity repeatedly, and Trump's break with the Presidential tradition of inviting newly-recognized US Nobel Laureates to visit the White House. This is likely on account of the fact that Laureates actually know things, and have regularly recognized, as astrophysicist Stephen Hawking pointed out, that "Donald Trump is a demogogue who appeals to the lowest common denominator."

[@pacerodi]

Burn, babe, burn! Unless you have responsibility enough to control it!

[@elizabethsantiago8930]

Que tristeza meu Deus.

[@andrealb4363]

Terrifying

[@SuperSydguy]

So they didn’t actually flee anything nor were they threatened? Amazing

[@southparknscape8582]

grab your King James Bible and use this time to rejoice in the name of the Lord... it's time for everyone to wake up...and the first sign was Fire.....revelations upon us.

[@neatznotso7424]

Yeah it is time to wake up, should have woken up decades ago and it's got zero to do with your Bible and everything to do with the way we've treated this planet.

[@southparknscape8582]

@@neatznotso7424 may God have mercy on your soul

[@neatznotso7424]

@@southparknscape8582 that's ok...I'd prefer people to wake up to what we're doing and have done to this planet. Last week I was in far east Gippsland Victoria driving down the Bonang Rd to my much loved tiny town of goongerah and the fires have razed that earth, what was once green and rainforest is now a dead zone and that's no god or Bible verse, it's a direct result of climate change. We have fucked up big time.

[@southparknscape8582]

@@neatznotso7424 the first sign is fire, it's in revelations.

[@hannyhawkins7804]

Yeah, cos God only speaks 17th century English.🙄. Humans did this. Humans can stop it getting worse if they have the brains and the patience to work together. Unfortunately, the selfish minority are hi-jacking those efforts. So far.

[@christophergonzalez8598]

Maybe if you take Australian soldiers from Iraq, things like this won't happen.

[@pietersteenkamp5241]

Governments can always purchase whatever is offered in their sovereign currency so until Australia runs out of labor and or resources it can afford to both bomb iraq AND keep it's citizens safe from wildfires. When governments choose not to do these things there's probably a private interest that is gaining profit or influence.

[@pietersteenkamp5241]

@Gorgon Don What does that even mean?

[@pietersteenkamp5241]

@Gorgon Don Possibly but i do think i understand that your anger at caucasians is based on the observation of what white colonialism&settling ( we sure breed like rabbits) of the world has done and you correctly fear what our horrible leadership might yet do. It's unfortunate that you think we are any better at getting decent leaders than you are ( when we aren't assassinating them) and that you can hold us all responsible despite our general ignorance and incapacity to even get decent lives for ourselves.

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

How many minutes before the word arson appears compared to global hoaxing?

[@meegz149]

mirrored window sadly, reality has a liberal bias:(

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

@@meegz149 where does that pathetic tripe comment come from?

[@meegz149]

@@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd don't you get sick of throwing these temper tantrums that reality doesn't conform to your world view?

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

@@meegz149 do tell me when the icebergs will be floating on the great lakes, like I was assured would happen when I was in college.

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

@@meegz149 go rewatch inconvenient lie with the Senator from API who went on Larry King and told us how NAFTA would help Mexican farmers and let me know how many of his pedictions came true.

[@athousandIQ]

Beautiful ending: "Whose street? Our Street" It seems like daddy is going to turn this little kid in a political activist. That kid is blessed. It can look forward to a solid upbringing and a clear world view. He might even join Extinction Rebellion! Welcome to our ranks, kiddo... We owe you our moral outrage about the criminal inaction of our politicians. We will bring the oil companies down!

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

Or you know he could grow up happy and have a family and teach his son not to pander to hysterics.

[@athousandIQ]

@@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd Dream on, scientist!

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

@@athousandIQ do tell which of the scientific theories have been true. Still waiting to sail through the North Pole.

[@rhorizon]

@@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd Here you go: climate.nasa.gov/evidence

[@athousandIQ]

@@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd Get some research skills, dude...