Josephus Mr Opinion, let me be clear I think I know climate change is man made
Too I think/know big money is behind the anti climate change side
As it was with tobacco
Now mid true real climate emergency, some, continue to say nothing is taking place
A country known to be built on land that is sinking is in [well one of its cities] trouble after a 50 year record flood
My morning drive just to shop, went past truly horrific burnt out bush, and the fires burn still
Tell the victims it is not climate change, if we three could get together and do that drive, then stop and see unburnt grass, even my backyard, we could start this debate with open eyes
Yes and YES some scientists who put out those emails, who continue to do so, are idiots
But not most of them not most of the world's scientists

One of the things that needs to be done is clearing gum trees well away from buildings, if you don't want a fire then don't provide fuel.

Second thing is clear all trees from the road right of ways, then there will be less chance of cars burning (plus their occupants) and no chance of a burning tree falling and blocking a road.

Climate change may or mayn't be real but gumtrees are real and they are very flammable plus they are wont to drop limbs on the unexpecting.

Yep very very true ise mise, you will have heard of widow makers, gum trees snapping limbs of and killing those under them, even in camping grounds
Once while road worker would arm myself and clear huge areas of them by the road
Practice stopped! see we workers had to work to fill a contracts needs
No mention there so we had to stop doing it
EVEN no longer able to drag dead animals of the road, no contract to do that
Lady lived on roadside Kangaroo killed and in middle of driveway
Believe it! boss said we must not move it! not our job
Council said not theirs either
Bloke about my size traveled past on way to and from work base, he had a cup of coffee with her lovely lady,she got an idea, ring the local paper!
That story became front page news
Both us and council sent teams to remove it!
Continued

Further long before effort was made to get true reform in to the roads a team did great stuff
I was honored to see it in action, workers and bosses got together and made huge savings with great innovations
Golden Circle was its name
It aware people die needlessly after hitting roadside trees, was this
Plant from edge of motorway to fence native bottle brush and such
Remove all tall growing trees, make the garden barrier both a thing of beauty wattles too, and a car catcher slowing out of control cars not ripping them apart
Your thoughts see are shared, just think spring driving with flowers in bloom city to city tourists would love it

Hi Belly,

There are plenty of native trees and bushes under three metre maximum, why can't bigger trees than that be cleared, say ten or fifteen metres from roadways, and smaller ones planted in their place ? Even graded from 3-metre trees closer to the tall trees and 1-metre bushes closer to the road ?

I'm on a corner block and have planted half-metre-high (and 2-metres-wide) acacias up to the pathway along the road and 1- and 2-metre bushes and trees further away from it. It's hardly rocket science.

I'm sure that many, many city Greens would jump at the chance to spend a week or two clearing country roads and re-planting smaller bushes and trees. It would be good for them, both to put their money and effort where their mouths are, and to be the first time they've ever been out of a city.

And some nearby towns may even have coffee shops which sell smashed avocado and soy-latte kale smoothies. Win-win !

Joe

I've got a question. I agree with the removal of
gum trees in critical areas. They do have very
oily residue. However I've been watching on the
news that bush fires are spread out at random and
unconnected areas - my question is - what starts
those bush-fires? Lightning strikes might
explain some of them - but what about the rest. Are they
all started by people? Surely not.