The images emerging from Australia, a continent that has been on fire for months, seem to document one of the first great spasms of an ecology thrown out of balance. The skies have turned blood red. The smoke is descending on cities and billowing out to sea. More than 200 fires are burning at the time of this writing, and an area the size of West Virginia—about 23,000 square miles—has already burned. At least over 20 people are dead
Guest: Dr Dube Kaitano (PhD) is an Ecotourism Management Lecturer at Vaal University of Technology
Guest: Sally Archibald - Professor, Animal Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand