As our feckless president plays with war with Iran (really? to avoid an impeachment trial?), Australia's suffering utterly terrifying bushfires. Many human and untold non-human lives have been lost - and the worst is yet to come. The scale of the hundreds of blazes, and the cascade effects involved, can be felt in images of glaciers over 2000km away on New Zealand's South Island discolored by dust from the fires. Prayers.