Climate Change and Australia’s Murray Darling

Climate Change and Australia’s Murray Darling.

Climate Change is one of the factors believed to be attributed to the death of approximately a million fish in Australia’s Murray Darling inland river system in Australia. It should be acknowledged that climate change played a part in this deplorable scene/situation.

This information has been gleaned from articles authored by Ms Anne Davies, Quentin Grafton, Emma Carmody, Matthew Colloff and John Williams of The Guardian (14 Jan 2019) concerning one of Australia’s major inland river systems, namely, the Murray Darling where recently approximately a million fish have reportedly died in a lake catchment area called Menindee.

The purpose of this blog is to record this environmental catastrophe which has happened here in inland Australia and was apparently due to a combination of a prolonged drought, extreme heat and poor river management. The argument is that this extraordinary fish kill that has left decaying fish polluting the river for miles and miles could have been avoided. The pictures of millions of fish floating on the surface are ghastly.

Apparently, over and over, government officials were warned by the locals that this could happen without proper water management applied to the region. No wonder these folk are up in arms about it and feel cheated by the government’s overall grasp of the situation. When are we going to learn? When are we going to factor-in the extreme weather conditions that probably helped to create these toxic blooms that sapped the oxygen from the water and killed the fish?

Video of the enormity of this fish kill has gone viral worldwide. We must environmentally look to the future.

Jesus, in the novel ‘The Battle for Jesus’ returns as a journalist to avert the perils of global warming. I applaud the journalists for fearlessly bringing this environmental disaster to our attention. And commiserate with the locals whose lives have been so severely impacted by this disaster. We are better than this. At the very least, let’s learn from it and look to the future.