{"id":46307,"date":"2019-12-18T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T10:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=46307"},"modified":"2020-03-18T12:33:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T11:33:22","slug":"mary-black-koalas-are-just-not-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/12\/18\/mary-black-koalas-are-just-not-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary E Black: Koalas are not just for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/12\/sydney_smoke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46310\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/12\/sydney_smoke-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/12\/sydney_smoke-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/12\/sydney_smoke-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/12\/sydney_smoke.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/12\/sydney_smoke-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I hang the last tiny-koala-in-a-Santa-hat on our family Christmas tree when the call from Sydney comes in. My colleagues are coughing. They are also sneezing blood. Their local coffee shop on the other side of Kirribilli harbour is shrouded in mist. Except that isn\u2019t mist, it is smoke from the bushfires circling Sydney. It is still only spring; the real fires will come later. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-australia-50341210\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Australia is literally baking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Koalas will burn this Christmas. They are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/nov\/26\/koala-factcheck-australian-bushfires-survival-species-at-stake\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">not yet &#8220;functionally extinct,&#8221;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0but singed fur and charred bodies have been encountered. The poor dears are not equipped to run from danger; the best they can manage is to climb gradually further up the tree they are on, and then nod off again. This is not much use with the current fire storms which are hotter than usual and produce sparks that fly long distances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If the flames don\u2019t get Australia\u2019s favourite marsupial, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/environment.des.qld.gov.au\/wildlife\/animals\/living-with\/koalas\/threats\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">habitat loss will<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (this is their biggest threat, the next biggest are chlamydia and getting run over by cars). Almost none of their habitat is protected. But what does that matter when exciting reality TV shows, like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6186672\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aussie Gold Hunters,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> show competitive teams of diggers rip up the bush? Or while the Australian government have just approved the development of a massive new coal reserve in remote Central Queensland, which is set to hugely increase Australia&#8217;s coal exports. Koalas may be adorable, but they are neither macho nor glitzy enough for reality TV or our sustained attention. The other inhabitants of the eco-system\u2014scrubby trees, millipedes and unicellular organisms\u2014stand little chance of public attention. Way too boring.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/12\/sydney_harbour_bridge_fires.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46311\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/12\/sydney_harbour_bridge_fires-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/12\/sydney_harbour_bridge_fires-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/12\/sydney_harbour_bridge_fires-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/12\/sydney_harbour_bridge_fires.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/12\/sydney_harbour_bridge_fires-640x359.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My daughter visited the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2019_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UN Climate Change Conference COP25<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Madrid and reported &#8220;many speeches but not much action.&#8221; The New Scientist called it a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2227541-cop25-climate-summit-ends-in-staggering-failure-of-leadership\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;staggering failure of leadership.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Just as Nero fiddled while Rome burned, our leaders (and we) seem too distracted by economic growth to do much than talk and tweet. Are tweets the equivalent of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/penelope.uchicago.edu\/Thayer\/E\/Journals\/CJ\/42\/4\/Nero_Fiddled*.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nero fiddling while Rome burned<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My doctor mother recalled the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Smog_of_London\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1952 Great Smog of London<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, when over five days she could not see to the end of her Nightingale ward. Each morning a thin film of brown sticky stuff covered all the surfaces and nurses would diligently wipe it away (that was what nurses did then). A combination of chemistry and weather had turned the atmosphere into a haze of sulphuric acid. Thousands of people died. It led to Britain\u2019s very useful <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/Eliz2\/4-5\/52\/enacted\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clean Air Act of 1956.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We don\u2019t see &#8220;pea-soupers&#8221; any more in London, but our air <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/health-matters-air-pollution\/health-matters-air-pollution\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is killing us<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Her bereaved family await a second inquest on the asthma <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ellaroberta.org\/support-our-crowdjustice-page\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">death of Ella Kissi-Debrah<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Public Health England lists air quality as a top ten priority. We have a 220 million <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/260-million-of-clean-air-funding-launched-by-government\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clean Air Fund<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to tackle roadside emissions. All are steps in the right direction but, like koalas, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanres\/article\/PIIS2213-2600(19)30025-6\/fulltext\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">too small and slow.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> By the time we get to the end of the coal and oil and gas and gold, our furry friends will be long gone, and we will follow, because we are also too slow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the timeline. Next Christmas our children will say &#8220;Oh look Mum at the poor singed Koalas.&#8221; Around 2050 they will hang little furry toys on a recycled Holiday Tree and ask &#8220;What\u2019s a koala?&#8221; In the distant future they will be silent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2013\/07\/maryeblack-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27956\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2013\/07\/maryeblack-copy.png\" alt=\"maryeblack copy\" width=\"124\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2013\/07\/maryeblack-copy.png 160w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2013\/07\/maryeblack-copy-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 124px) 100vw, 124px\" \/><\/a><em><strong>Mary E Black<\/strong>\u00a0is a public health doctor.\u00a0She is on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrMaryBlack\">@DrMaryBlack<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Competing interests<\/strong>: I am a Non-Executive Director of the UK\u2019s National Centre for Atmospheric Science.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hang the last tiny-koala-in-a-Santa-hat on our family Christmas tree when the call from Sydney comes in. 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