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Environmentalists responsible for much of Australia’s bushfire problem : Comments

By Tom Harris, published 4/2/2020

A major cause of Australia's fire problem has been the high 'fuel loads,' underbrush that, left to accumulate over years, acts as a tinder box for bushfires.

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Some great ideas, Alan B.
Posted by plantagenet, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 9:37:08 PM
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Regardless of the primary cause of the bushfire, there is the added risk of unfavourable winds carrying burning embers from that fire to a distant location where fuel load has not been reduced by recent controlled burning, thereby starting a new fire.

With regard to protection of wild animals in bushfire-prone areas, one has to be hard to be kind, viz. carrying out slow controlled burns, thus allowing those animals to escape with much-reduced risk of harm and minimal damage to their habitat.

Avoiding doing controlled burning results in what we have seen of late – extremely intensive bushfires that incinerate all animals in their path .
Posted by Raycom, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 9:45:46 PM
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Well meaning environmentalism inspired policy is causing problems.
Unfortunately the number of people with genuine hands on land management experience is a miniscule percentage of our mostly urbanized population.
The tendency toward catastrophism of 'environmentalists' resonates with many, and it's a democracy.
The end result has been fairly centralized, one size fits all, policy and state control of all land management.
History is riddled with the failures of state control but it's where we've ended up. The fuel build up and consequential fires are just another example.
My expectation is the lesson won't be learned and we'll end up with more state mandated, one size fits all, policies that'll create a whole new set of problems on top of the existing ones.
Posted by jamo, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:33:00 AM
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Posted by NIOS NEWS, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 4:24:48 AM
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Environmentalists have themselves to thank for much of Australia's bush fire problem.'

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Posted by NIOS NEWS, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 4:28:01 AM
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Environmentalists have themselves to thank for much of Australia's bush fire problem.'

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Posted by NIOS NEWS, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 4:29:38 AM
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