mo4ch:>Need ‘Trump of the tropics’ to get attention? Fires ravage Australia, but outcry fixated on Brazil | Mo4ch News

As eco-activists raise the alarm over wildfires cutting through the Amazon rainforest, far fewer have noticed the blazes consuming the Australian countryside. Perhaps some disasters are more politically expedient than others?An abnormally warm, dry and windy spring season in Australia has intensified drought conditions and helped to drive nearly 100 bushfires across hundreds of thousands of acres of forest and grassland on the country’s eastern seaboard. The weather is unprecedented this early in the season, and has turned swathes of Queensland and New South Wales into a tinderbox.“We’ve never seen this before in recorded history, fire weather has never been as severe this early in spring,” Andrew Sturgess, an inspector with Queensland emergency services, told the BBC.Despite the severity of the conflagration and the damage already dealt to Australia’s lush forests, international demands for action have not been forthcoming – nothing approaching the vocal calls, almost in unison, by m…