The black summer bushfires killed 3 billion animals. They are our relatives; they deserve to be mourned | Alexis Wright

Three years after Australia's firestorm tragedy, Alexis Wright offers a eulogy for the living creatures lost - and a plea for the humans left behindThis is an edited version of a speech to be delivered at the Black Summer Vigil in Sydney on SundayMany times since the black summer fires came, and finally passed, I have thought about the enormity of what happened on vast areas of country, killing 3 billion animals and trillions of invertebrates. I thought, what can one human being say to this unimaginable loss, when I know in my heart that the human world did not do enough to prevent this disaster? A disaster brought on by the global warming emergency. A disaster that created colossal, unprecedented pyro-convective firestorms.Do we even have the right to speak? Who should be speaking about this? Continue reading...