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JudyM

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3. Total agreement that this is a helpful essay.
Sat Jan 11, 2020, 02:46 PM
Jan 2020

I’m not in Australia, don’t even know any Australians, but have been feeling such a deep sadness, particularly about the animals’ suffering. I read something this week about a firefighter who had to take a break and go home because of the sound of koalas’ screaming and the sight of their charred corpses. The reality of what is. NPR had a piece this morning about it, that a billion animals may have died, some species may have been extinguished that we’ve never even known existed, etc. The scope of this tragedy (for humans, too, of course, and for the planet) stirs the deepest part of our compassionate hearts.

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