Don't take this the wrong way people. I utterly sympathize with those who have lost property and friends and families in the fires, but the following needs to be said.
Listen here you blame the "greenies" fuckwits. I'm sick of your bullshit.
Fires are complex things. Temperature, humidity, fuel loads, topography, arsonists and climate change all contribute to fire intensity, size, duration and frequency.
Fire safety is multifaceted. Tree changers, shire laws, building regulations, fire-fighting funding, roads, inter-departmental communication, weather forecasting etc all play a role in the effectiveness of fire plans.
There is no one silver bullet solution to the problem.
Stop posting crap on web sites claiming this all could be avoided if the greenies didn't control the government. Stop making up shite about the Greens stopping fuel reductions burns. I challenge you pin-heads to provide just one example.
And have a look at the pictures from the fires idiots. Even houses in bare fields were destroy. How exactly was a fuel reduction burn going to prevent that?
And show some decency you dumb cunts. You lot claim that fuel reduction burns could provide a staging post to stop the fires. Great, and now you just have to ask the volunteers at the CFA to stand there, pro-bono, hoping some nobody, with zero qualifications posting on the Hun web site was right.
You fuckers are not scientists, you're not experts. You read a tiny bit of garbage by some aging academic or right wing hack and suddenly you're equipped to provide fool proof solutions.
Fuck off I say. The situation is way more complex than "greenies" causing the fires. And if you morons haven't noticed, the Greens aren't actually in power anywhere in the country.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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The much maligned 'greenies' have been supporting programmed 'mosaic' burning for decades.
Have a look at 'The Alps at the Crossroads', published in the mid 1970s by the Victorian National Parks Assoc.
It really pisses me off that the ignorant disinterested (except when a fire occurs) vocal minority get so much oxygen for there 'chop it all down' knee jerk reaction, while those who have a reasoned logical response to a complex issue are ignored most of the time and then pilloried when the problem they have long identified periodically comes to pass.
The argument is not that the fires could or would have been prevented by extensive winter fuel reduction burns, rather, the overall extent of the damage.
The thought of them chopping down thousand year old trees, down in Tassy, in the Tarkine, for bloody paper, is horrific. I consider myself "green", and I hate the thought of forests being harvested for dining room tables, and pallets, but a bit of common sense preparation in the winter time is needed, to protect the forests in the long term.
Would it have had an effect in this case, probably not. Once in a hundred year fire, doubt it, BUT, would it would have succeeded in doing, is giving the local population just perhaps a little more time to get the hell out of there. An interesting point to note, that after the South Coast NSW fires, winter fuel burns recommenced about 2000, and shock horror, not a serious fire in those forests since. Interesting to consider ?
The Greens may not be in power anywhere in the country, but their influence is still substantial, and consequential.
Their middle of the road support base, just got shot down with the flames. A knee jerk reaction, sure, but it will require some pretty fancy footwork to get it back none the less ?
Fuckwits judging fuckwits. Such a common and concerning occurrence today.
Their will be a lot rhetoric and meetings until Black Friday no longer becomes news worthy. Then it will be back to the same old same old, as per Ash Wednesday, The Grampians, Canberra and So on. Lots of Fuckwits with opinions with jaws going flat out
As much as I agree with your sentiment perhaps a little less verbal flourish would go a lot further to informing the fact starved masses?
Ian,
You must be a member of the Greens or you would not be so sensitive to this issue, Blame is not the issue here but understanding just what caused this conflagration certainly is now if it turns out (as I believe) that allowing the fuel loads to build up to such dangerous levels is a major contributor to this disaster then it is essential that a more rigorous burning program has to started sooner rather than later.
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