At Least 500,000 Cattle Killed In Massive Queensland Flooding After "Unprecedented" Rainfall Totals

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An estimated 500,000 are feared dead after historic floods inundated Queensland, Australia, according to News.com.au, citing the state's cattle industry. Financial losses are estimated at $300 million Australian dollars (about $212 million U.S.).

Days of "unprecedented" rainfall earlier this month led to widespread flooding across the state, causing power outages, damaging roads and buildings and prompting evacuations, according to AccuWeather. Some areas, the Guardian noted, received three years' worth of rain in about a week.

Tragically, farmers in northwest Queensland initially welcomed the rains, as the region had suffered years of back-to-back drought, according to Michael Guerin, the CEO of Queenlands agricultural body AgForce.

"The loss of hundreds of thousands of cattle after five, six, seven years of drought, is a debilitating blow not just to individual farmers, many of whom have lost literally everything, but to rural communities," he said in a press release. Guerin said the cattle industry could take decades to recover after the entire herds of cattle were wiped out from the extreme weather.

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https://www.ecowatch.com/about-500-000-cattle-feared-dead-after-historic-queensland-floods-2628662464.html

[Zoonart]

1. Nothing to see here...No such thing as global warming.

How do I know? I have ice in my driveway....or some such other crazy delusional shit.
I fear for my grandchildren, and despair at the situation we will leave them in if our citizenry and government does not wake up.

[littlemissmartypants]

2. This is heartbreaking.

Drowning is such a terrible way to die..

[Rhiannon12866]

3. I know. I've seen that photo of the heartbroken girl who found her drowned cow

In several publications and it gets to me every time.

[Boomer]

4. This isn't a one-off

The ranchers all talk about the difficulty of re-building and how it will take years to get back on their feet.

As if this isn't going to happen again... and again... and again.

Even with all this devastation, people aren't facing the true reality of what is happening with climate change. They persist with old patterns of responses, a determination to continue building the same models of ranching based on consuming large quantities of beef and dairy. At some point they will have to face a paradigm shift.

[hatrack]

5. This. Precisely this.

Now apply this to "Miami/Houston/New Orleans/Norfolk will be back, and better than ever!!"

(Insert rapturous cheers, delete potential rational responses)