Lewis the Koala died →

The Koala rescued from the flames of an Australian bush fire has died.

If you want to relive the traumatic video of its rescue, it’s here.

"I didn't realise they could cry out. It was just so heart-rending and I knew I needed to get him out of there as quickly as possible," Ms Doherty told Nine News”.

As it was getting worse, not better, the vets decided to euthanize it.

“Today we made the decision to put Ellenborough Lewis to sleep,” it said on Facebook.

“We placed him under general anaesthesia this morning to assess his burns injuries and change the bandages.

“We recently posted that ‘Burns injuries can get worse before they get better’.

“In Ellenborough Lewis’s case, the burns did get worse, and unfortunately would not have gotten better.”

Just awful.

And a grim line from the end of the BBC’s article:

“The blazes continue to burn and officials warn that the worst of Australia's season is still to come”.

From an earlier post—still relevant:

On each day these fires burn, Australia continues to export more than one million tonnes of coal.

That’s one billion kilograms, per day.

Burned, that produces around 2.6 billion kilograms of CO2.

That CO2 goes into the atmosphere, 100% man-made.

The atmosphere gets hotter.

The temperature rises.

Droughts become more frequent in Australia. Its forests become drier and burn more frequently, over longer periods of the year.

Australia green-lights a new coal mine.

Jobs are created.

Australia burns.