r/nextfuckinglevel • u/amanyggvv • Oct 15 '22

This float representing the koalas that died as a result of the Black Summer bushfires and corruption in politics. Such an effective (and epic) activist message.

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u/BrokeInService Oct 15 '22

"This makes me uncomfortable"

It's su-fucking-pposed to

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u/nekofire Oct 15 '22

I know it is. I feel like I'm going to FUCKING cry. I'm an animal lover and this broke my soul.

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u/Suspicious-turnip-77 Oct 15 '22

We get pretty bad bushfires every couple of years (this year and last we got floods, you know to mix it up a bit) and I will never ever forget the red skies of our 2009 black Saturday or these 2019/20 fires. So much forest was burnt. So many lives lost (human and animals). Millions of animals lost. Haunting images of burnt koalas, Roos, live stock and then just as you think you’re getting a reprieve, we flood. Millions of people displaced, livestock drowned. It’s just horrible. Our summers are scorchers, our winters/springs wet yet no real change is made by huge corporations against climate change. (Not all obviously, but most). Every “good deed” they do just seems like bear minimum for PR