2aguy
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And as I thought, green fascists and their insane policies caused the fires in Australia....
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/12/with_greens_policies_no_wonder_australias_on_fire.html
No one should be surprised that our bush is ablaze and our cities are smothered in smoke.
For decades now, we have been locking up land, banning burn-offs, and encouraging eucalypt fire-trees. On a hot day, the blue haze on distant timbered hills is highly flammable eucalypt oil vapor, waiting for a spark.
The Australian landscape of open forests and treeless grasslands was developed and maintained under an aboriginal regime of continual small fires. This was followed by planned cool-season burn-offs by European graziers.
But a few decades ago, this safe black-and-white fire regime was replaced by green-worshipers who continually expanded the area of locked up protected parks (now over 11% of Australia). Then they peppered private land with protected-vegetation fire havens and hampered undergrowth clean-ups and burn-offs.
This created many tinderboxes of eucalypt fire-trees waiting for a spark. The spark could be a fearful landowner seeking fire protection with a risky/belated back-burn, a thrill-seeking arsonist, a dry-lightning strike, a careless cigarette butt, a power-line problem, or high-flying burning embers — and an unstoppable firestorm is inevitable.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/12/with_greens_policies_no_wonder_australias_on_fire.html
No one should be surprised that our bush is ablaze and our cities are smothered in smoke.
For decades now, we have been locking up land, banning burn-offs, and encouraging eucalypt fire-trees. On a hot day, the blue haze on distant timbered hills is highly flammable eucalypt oil vapor, waiting for a spark.
The Australian landscape of open forests and treeless grasslands was developed and maintained under an aboriginal regime of continual small fires. This was followed by planned cool-season burn-offs by European graziers.
But a few decades ago, this safe black-and-white fire regime was replaced by green-worshipers who continually expanded the area of locked up protected parks (now over 11% of Australia). Then they peppered private land with protected-vegetation fire havens and hampered undergrowth clean-ups and burn-offs.
This created many tinderboxes of eucalypt fire-trees waiting for a spark. The spark could be a fearful landowner seeking fire protection with a risky/belated back-burn, a thrill-seeking arsonist, a dry-lightning strike, a careless cigarette butt, a power-line problem, or high-flying burning embers — and an unstoppable firestorm is inevitable.
