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Firefighters on the outskirts of Bredbo, New South Wales, Australia, on Feb. 1.

By Damien Cave

1  SYDNEY, Australia — In a country where there has always been more space than people, where the land and wildlife are cherished like a Picasso, nature is closing in. Fueled by climate change and the world‘s refusal to address it, the fires that have burned across Australia are not just destroying lives, or turning forests as large as nations into ashen moonscapes.

2  They are also forcing Australians to imagine an entirely new way of life. When summer is feared. When air filters hum in homes that are bunkers, with kids kept indoors. When birdsong and the rustle of marsupials in the bush give way to an eerie, smoky silence.

3  "I am standing here as a traveler from a new reality, a burning Australia," Lynette Wallworth, an Australian filmmaker, told a crowd of international executives and politicians in Davos, Switzerland, last month. "What was feared and what was warned is no longer in our future, a topic for debate — it is here."

4  "We have seen," she added, "the unfolding wings of climate change."

5  Like the fires, it‘s a metaphor that lingers. What many of us have witnessed this fire season does feel alive, like a monstrous gathering force threatening to devour what we hold most dear on a continent that will grow only hotter, drier and more flammable as global temperatures rise.

6  It‘s also a hint of what may be coming to a town, city or country near you.

7  And in a land usually associated with relaxed optimism, anxiety and trauma have taken hold. A recent Australia Institute survey found that 57 percent of Australians have been directly affected by the bush fires or their smoke. With officials in New South Wales announcing Thursday that heavy rain had helped them finally extinguish or control all the state‘s fires that have raged this Australian summer, the country seems to be reflecting and wondering what comes next.

8  Politics have been a focal point — one of frustration for most Australians. The conservative government is still playing down the role of climate change, despite polls showing public anger hitting feverish levels. And yet what‘s emerging alongside public protest may prove more potent.

9  In interviews all over the fire zone since September, it‘s been clear that Australians are reconsidering far more than energy and emissions. They are stumbling toward new ways of living: Housing, holiday travel, work, leisure, food and water are all being reconsidered.

10  "If there‘s not a major shift that comes out of this, we‘re doomed," said Robyn Eckersley, a political scientist at the University of Melbourne who has written extensively about environmental policy around the world. "It does change everything — or it should."

11  The biggest shifts, however, may not be structural so much as cultural. Climate change threatens heavy pillars of Australian identity: a life lived outdoors, an international role where the country ―punches above its weight,‖ and an emphasis on egalitarianism that, according to some historians, is rooted in Australia‘s settlement by convicts.

12  It‘s "a place of childhood vacations and dreams," as one of Australia‘s great novelists, Thomas Keneally, recently wrote. There‘s an absurdity even to the signs. The ones that aren‘t melted warn of wet roads. Just beyond them are trees black as coal and koalas and kangaroos robbed of life.

13  The fear of ferocious nature can be tough to shake. Fires are still burning south and west of New South Wales. Last month in Cobargo, a dairy and horse town six hours‘ drive from Sydney, I stood silently waiting for the start of an outdoor funeral for a father and son who had died in the fires a few weeks earlier. When the wind kicked up, everyone near me snapped their heads toward where a fire burned less than a mile away.

The New York Times, fevereiro de 2020. Disponível em: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/world/australia/fires-climate-change.html (Adaptado). Photo by Matthew Abbott.

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ZOOM FATIGUE

1 For many of us who are still working we are waking up to a calendar filled with Zoom meetings. Not only are we packing in more Zoom meetings than we probably would in a normal office setting, but it has made us all fatigued. Why are Zoom meetings so exhausting? Shouldn‘t it be less of an effort than in person meeting?

2 We are already exhausted from the upheaval in our lives from the pandemic and while connecting over video chat seems like a way to relieve the isolating aspect of working from home there‘s actually a disconnect happening. In an interview with BBC, Gianpiero Petriglieri explained that being on a video call requires more focus than a face-to-face chat. "Video chats mean we need to work harder to process non-verbal cues like facial expressions, the tone and pitch of the voice, and body language; paying more attention to these consumes a lot of energy".

3 In a face to face meeting we are able to read the room and then adjust our own behaviors accordingly. So you can imagine our brains are operating on overload trying to figure out how to read 50+ "virtual rooms" at the same time while figuring out whether to stare into the persons eyes or their baby succulent in the top left corner of the screen.

4 An initially scheduled 30-minute Zoom meeting can turn into an hour + meeting because of things such as poor wi-fi, frozen screens and software crashes. In the beginning of quarantine, Zoom and many other conferencing platforms were actually crashing several times a day.

6 Our homes have now become our work spaces and our work spaces our homes. Zoom has blurred that balance even more because we are using the platform for work and social purposes. While virtually connecting with friends and family is a great thing, it can be overwhelming after a full work day of doing so. Ask yourself the question, "could this Zoom meeting have been an e-mail?" If the answer is yes try to suggest communicating over e-mail or even just a regular phone call so you don‘t have to worry about what you or background setting look like.

Disponível em: https://www.forbes.com/sites/yolarobert1/2020/04/30/heres-why-youre-feeling-zoom-fatigue/#3233932a2ac6 (Adaptado). Acesso em: 05 jul. 2020. Photo bay: Margaux Quayle Cannon. In:https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/how-to-conduct-yourself-on-zoom-meeting71092/.

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Firefighters on the outskirts of Bredbo, New South Wales, Australia, on Feb. 1.

By Damien Cave

1  SYDNEY, Australia — In a country where there has always been more space than people, where the land and wildlife are cherished like a Picasso, nature is closing in. Fueled by climate change and the world‘s refusal to address it, the fires that have burned across Australia are not just destroying lives, or turning forests as large as nations into ashen moonscapes.

2  They are also forcing Australians to imagine an entirely new way of life. When summer is feared. When air filters hum in homes that are bunkers, with kids kept indoors. When birdsong and the rustle of marsupials in the bush give way to an eerie, smoky silence.

3  "I am standing here as a traveler from a new reality, a burning Australia," Lynette Wallworth, an Australian filmmaker, told a crowd of international executives and politicians in Davos, Switzerland, last month. "What was feared and what was warned is no longer in our future, a topic for debate — it is here."

4  "We have seen," she added, "the unfolding wings of climate change."

5  Like the fires, it‘s a metaphor that lingers. What many of us have witnessed this fire season does feel alive, like a monstrous gathering force threatening to devour what we hold most dear on a continent that will grow only hotter, drier and more flammable as global temperatures rise.

6  It‘s also a hint of what may be coming to a town, city or country near you.

7  And in a land usually associated with relaxed optimism, anxiety and trauma have taken hold. A recent Australia Institute survey found that 57 percent of Australians have been directly affected by the bush fires or their smoke. With officials in New South Wales announcing Thursday that heavy rain had helped them finally extinguish or control all the state‘s fires that have raged this Australian summer, the country seems to be reflecting and wondering what comes next.

8  Politics have been a focal point — one of frustration for most Australians. The conservative government is still playing down the role of climate change, despite polls showing public anger hitting feverish levels. And yet what‘s emerging alongside public protest may prove more potent.

9  In interviews all over the fire zone since September, it‘s been clear that Australians are reconsidering far more than energy and emissions. They are stumbling toward new ways of living: Housing, holiday travel, work, leisure, food and water are all being reconsidered.

10  "If there‘s not a major shift that comes out of this, we‘re doomed," said Robyn Eckersley, a political scientist at the University of Melbourne who has written extensively about environmental policy around the world. "It does change everything — or it should."

11  The biggest shifts, however, may not be structural so much as cultural. Climate change threatens heavy pillars of Australian identity: a life lived outdoors, an international role where the country ―punches above its weight,‖ and an emphasis on egalitarianism that, according to some historians, is rooted in Australia‘s settlement by convicts.

12  It‘s "a place of childhood vacations and dreams," as one of Australia‘s great novelists, Thomas Keneally, recently wrote. There‘s an absurdity even to the signs. The ones that aren‘t melted warn of wet roads. Just beyond them are trees black as coal and koalas and kangaroos robbed of life.

13  The fear of ferocious nature can be tough to shake. Fires are still burning south and west of New South Wales. Last month in Cobargo, a dairy and horse town six hours‘ drive from Sydney, I stood silently waiting for the start of an outdoor funeral for a father and son who had died in the fires a few weeks earlier. When the wind kicked up, everyone near me snapped their heads toward where a fire burned less than a mile away.

The New York Times, fevereiro de 2020. Disponível em: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/world/australia/fires-climate-change.html (Adaptado). Photo by Matthew Abbott.

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Firefighters on the outskirts of Bredbo, New South Wales, Australia, on Feb. 1.

By Damien Cave

1  SYDNEY, Australia — In a country where there has always been more space than people, where the land and wildlife are cherished like a Picasso, nature is closing in. Fueled by climate change and the world‘s refusal to address it, the fires that have burned across Australia are not just destroying lives, or turning forests as large as nations into ashen moonscapes.

2  They are also forcing Australians to imagine an entirely new way of life. When summer is feared. When air filters hum in homes that are bunkers, with kids kept indoors. When birdsong and the rustle of marsupials in the bush give way to an eerie, smoky silence.

3  "I am standing here as a traveler from a new reality, a burning Australia," Lynette Wallworth, an Australian filmmaker, told a crowd of international executives and politicians in Davos, Switzerland, last month. "What was feared and what was warned is no longer in our future, a topic for debate — it is here."

4  "We have seen," she added, "the unfolding wings of climate change."

5  Like the fires, it‘s a metaphor that lingers. What many of us have witnessed this fire season does feel alive, like a monstrous gathering force threatening to devour what we hold most dear on a continent that will grow only hotter, drier and more flammable as global temperatures rise.

6  It‘s also a hint of what may be coming to a town, city or country near you.

7  And in a land usually associated with relaxed optimism, anxiety and trauma have taken hold. A recent Australia Institute survey found that 57 percent of Australians have been directly affected by the bush fires or their smoke. With officials in New South Wales announcing Thursday that heavy rain had helped them finally extinguish or control all the state‘s fires that have raged this Australian summer, the country seems to be reflecting and wondering what comes next.

8  Politics have been a focal point — one of frustration for most Australians. The conservative government is still playing down the role of climate change, despite polls showing public anger hitting feverish levels. And yet what‘s emerging alongside public protest may prove more potent.

9  In interviews all over the fire zone since September, it‘s been clear that Australians are reconsidering far more than energy and emissions. They are stumbling toward new ways of living: Housing, holiday travel, work, leisure, food and water are all being reconsidered.

10  "If there‘s not a major shift that comes out of this, we‘re doomed," said Robyn Eckersley, a political scientist at the University of Melbourne who has written extensively about environmental policy around the world. "It does change everything — or it should."

11  The biggest shifts, however, may not be structural so much as cultural. Climate change threatens heavy pillars of Australian identity: a life lived outdoors, an international role where the country ―punches above its weight,‖ and an emphasis on egalitarianism that, according to some historians, is rooted in Australia‘s settlement by convicts.

12  It‘s "a place of childhood vacations and dreams," as one of Australia‘s great novelists, Thomas Keneally, recently wrote. There‘s an absurdity even to the signs. The ones that aren‘t melted warn of wet roads. Just beyond them are trees black as coal and koalas and kangaroos robbed of life.

13  The fear of ferocious nature can be tough to shake. Fires are still burning south and west of New South Wales. Last month in Cobargo, a dairy and horse town six hours‘ drive from Sydney, I stood silently waiting for the start of an outdoor funeral for a father and son who had died in the fires a few weeks earlier. When the wind kicked up, everyone near me snapped their heads toward where a fire burned less than a mile away.

The New York Times, fevereiro de 2020. Disponível em: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/world/australia/fires-climate-change.html (Adaptado). Photo by Matthew Abbott.

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Firefighters on the outskirts of Bredbo, New South Wales, Australia, on Feb. 1.

By Damien Cave

1  SYDNEY, Australia — In a country where there has always been more space than people, where the land and wildlife are cherished like a Picasso, nature is closing in. Fueled by climate change and the world‘s refusal to address it, the fires that have burned across Australia are not just destroying lives, or turning forests as large as nations into ashen moonscapes.

2  They are also forcing Australians to imagine an entirely new way of life. When summer is feared. When air filters hum in homes that are bunkers, with kids kept indoors. When birdsong and the rustle of marsupials in the bush give way to an eerie, smoky silence.

3  "I am standing here as a traveler from a new reality, a burning Australia," Lynette Wallworth, an Australian filmmaker, told a crowd of international executives and politicians in Davos, Switzerland, last month. "What was feared and what was warned is no longer in our future, a topic for debate — it is here."

4  "We have seen," she added, "the unfolding wings of climate change."

5  Like the fires, it‘s a metaphor that lingers. What many of us have witnessed this fire season does feel alive, like a monstrous gathering force threatening to devour what we hold most dear on a continent that will grow only hotter, drier and more flammable as global temperatures rise.

6  It‘s also a hint of what may be coming to a town, city or country near you.

7  And in a land usually associated with relaxed optimism, anxiety and trauma have taken hold. A recent Australia Institute survey found that 57 percent of Australians have been directly affected by the bush fires or their smoke. With officials in New South Wales announcing Thursday that heavy rain had helped them finally extinguish or control all the state‘s fires that have raged this Australian summer, the country seems to be reflecting and wondering what comes next.

8  Politics have been a focal point — one of frustration for most Australians. The conservative government is still playing down the role of climate change, despite polls showing public anger hitting feverish levels. And yet what‘s emerging alongside public protest may prove more potent.

9  In interviews all over the fire zone since September, it‘s been clear that Australians are reconsidering far more than energy and emissions. They are stumbling toward new ways of living: Housing, holiday travel, work, leisure, food and water are all being reconsidered.

10  "If there‘s not a major shift that comes out of this, we‘re doomed," said Robyn Eckersley, a political scientist at the University of Melbourne who has written extensively about environmental policy around the world. "It does change everything — or it should."

11  The biggest shifts, however, may not be structural so much as cultural. Climate change threatens heavy pillars of Australian identity: a life lived outdoors, an international role where the country ―punches above its weight,‖ and an emphasis on egalitarianism that, according to some historians, is rooted in Australia‘s settlement by convicts.

12  It‘s "a place of childhood vacations and dreams," as one of Australia‘s great novelists, Thomas Keneally, recently wrote. There‘s an absurdity even to the signs. The ones that aren‘t melted warn of wet roads. Just beyond them are trees black as coal and koalas and kangaroos robbed of life.

13  The fear of ferocious nature can be tough to shake. Fires are still burning south and west of New South Wales. Last month in Cobargo, a dairy and horse town six hours‘ drive from Sydney, I stood silently waiting for the start of an outdoor funeral for a father and son who had died in the fires a few weeks earlier. When the wind kicked up, everyone near me snapped their heads toward where a fire burned less than a mile away.

The New York Times, fevereiro de 2020. Disponível em: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/world/australia/fires-climate-change.html (Adaptado). Photo by Matthew Abbott.

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Firefighters on the outskirts of Bredbo, New South Wales, Australia, on Feb. 1.

By Damien Cave

1  SYDNEY, Australia — In a country where there has always been more space than people, where the land and wildlife are cherished like a Picasso, nature is closing in. Fueled by climate change and the world‘s refusal to address it, the fires that have burned across Australia are not just destroying lives, or turning forests as large as nations into ashen moonscapes.

2  They are also forcing Australians to imagine an entirely new way of life. When summer is feared. When air filters hum in homes that are bunkers, with kids kept indoors. When birdsong and the rustle of marsupials in the bush give way to an eerie, smoky silence.

3  "I am standing here as a traveler from a new reality, a burning Australia," Lynette Wallworth, an Australian filmmaker, told a crowd of international executives and politicians in Davos, Switzerland, last month. "What was feared and what was warned is no longer in our future, a topic for debate — it is here."

4  "We have seen," she added, "the unfolding wings of climate change."

5  Like the fires, it‘s a metaphor that lingers. What many of us have witnessed this fire season does feel alive, like a monstrous gathering force threatening to devour what we hold most dear on a continent that will grow only hotter, drier and more flammable as global temperatures rise.

6  It‘s also a hint of what may be coming to a town, city or country near you.

7  And in a land usually associated with relaxed optimism, anxiety and trauma have taken hold. A recent Australia Institute survey found that 57 percent of Australians have been directly affected by the bush fires or their smoke. With officials in New South Wales announcing Thursday that heavy rain had helped them finally extinguish or control all the state‘s fires that have raged this Australian summer, the country seems to be reflecting and wondering what comes next.

8  Politics have been a focal point — one of frustration for most Australians. The conservative government is still playing down the role of climate change, despite polls showing public anger hitting feverish levels. And yet what‘s emerging alongside public protest may prove more potent.

9  In interviews all over the fire zone since September, it‘s been clear that Australians are reconsidering far more than energy and emissions. They are stumbling toward new ways of living: Housing, holiday travel, work, leisure, food and water are all being reconsidered.

10  "If there‘s not a major shift that comes out of this, we‘re doomed," said Robyn Eckersley, a political scientist at the University of Melbourne who has written extensively about environmental policy around the world. "It does change everything — or it should."

11  The biggest shifts, however, may not be structural so much as cultural. Climate change threatens heavy pillars of Australian identity: a life lived outdoors, an international role where the country ―punches above its weight,‖ and an emphasis on egalitarianism that, according to some historians, is rooted in Australia‘s settlement by convicts.

12  It‘s "a place of childhood vacations and dreams," as one of Australia‘s great novelists, Thomas Keneally, recently wrote. There‘s an absurdity even to the signs. The ones that aren‘t melted warn of wet roads. Just beyond them are trees black as coal and koalas and kangaroos robbed of life.

13  The fear of ferocious nature can be tough to shake. Fires are still burning south and west of New South Wales. Last month in Cobargo, a dairy and horse town six hours‘ drive from Sydney, I stood silently waiting for the start of an outdoor funeral for a father and son who had died in the fires a few weeks earlier. When the wind kicked up, everyone near me snapped their heads toward where a fire burned less than a mile away.

The New York Times, fevereiro de 2020. Disponível em: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/world/australia/fires-climate-change.html (Adaptado). Photo by Matthew Abbott.