A new paper published on Tuesday suggested that most Australian business bosses believe climate change will have a negative impact on their operations. Over 80 percent of those surveyed agreed on the negative effects of climate change on business.
According to Reuters, research group Deloitte Australia's survey revealed that 81 percent of Australian business executives are concerned with the negative effects of the country's ongoing bushfire crisis on their companies.
Business sentiment has already started declining as the country continues to battle raging fires that started too early than expected. While Australia usually deals with bushfires each time summer arrives, this year's bushfires were more devastating than ever.
The survey's results are also believed to add more pressure on Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, especially after some senior government officials expressed unbelief for climate change and its effects on the environment, much more on business operations.
Citizens have been calling on change and reducing the country's carbon emissions. Despite Morrison's move of boosting emergency funding for small businesses devastated by bushfires, the masses are still largely unsatisfied with his government's handling of the crisis.
For professor at Flinders University's college of business, government and law, Haydon Manning, the masses' unrest and global calls for more action from government officials is "a test of his leadership," referring to Morrison.
It has been raining in the country for a couple of days now but fire experts warned that some blazes have yet to be extinguished as the heavy rainfall was not enough to put out the mega-blazes in some areas.
In an interview with The Guardian, Ben Shepherd of the NSW Rural Fire Service confirmed that fire activity was dramatically reduced over the past week. In the northern part of Sydney, the Gospers Mountain fire received some rain, as well as some fires in Snowy Valley.
On the other hand, there are still some fires that have not been extinguished by the rain showers in the past week. As of Tuesday morning, 87 fires continue to burn across New South Wales.
Shepherd explained that "they are by no means out" but the rains did help "temporarily" stop some fire clusters from spreading further across areas that have otherwise not been touched by the blazes.
Meanwhile, the trees and thick vegetation burned out by the blazes have revealed clusters of water channels across the state of Victoria. According to CNN, the UNESCO said the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape is one of the world's most ancient aquaculture systems built by the Gunditjmara tribes over 6,000 years ago.
While the UNESCO already added it to its World Heritage List last year, new sections of the aqua system were revealed more clearly by the bushfires.
