Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

On 31/07/2026 19:06, Tara wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2026 at 12:40:32 PM EDT, "Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/30/2026 3:50 PM, Tara wrote:
>>> Julian <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On 30/07/2026 19:56, Tara wrote:
>>>>> On Jul 30, 2026 at 2:53:09 PM EDT, "Julian" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> On 30/07/2026 19:29, Tara wrote:
>>>>>>> On Jul 30, 2026 at 2:04:17 PM EDT, "Julian" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sadly he was proved right. So was I. After I warned in these very pages
>>>>>>>> last year that government policy was worsening the fire risk on
>>>>>>>> moorland, it gives me no pleasure to say: ‘I told you so.’
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Matt Ridley
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Indigenous peoples in North America have been conrolling the threat of wild
>>>>>>> fires with prescribed/controlled burns for centuries. Canada is looking to do
>>>>>>> the same in co-operation with our native people. We have a problem doing this
>>>>>>> however because of the acessibility and vastness of our forests. But in a
>>>>>>> country the size of Britain (and other European countries), it seems to me
>>>>>>> that controlled fires are a no brainer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are inaccessible fires in vast forests really a problem?
>>>>>> I think they're as likely good for the land's long term health.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is that, but an uncontrolled fire can massively grow and send a lot of
>>>>> smoke to people populated areas.
>>>>
>>>> A bit like a volcano.
>>>
>>> Yeah like that.
>>
>> The northeast US is hundreds of miles from the wildfires yet we've had
>> serious air quality warnings this year and last. A few weeks ago it
>> literally dimmed the sun for several days, making what was otherwise a
>> clear day look cloudy.
>>
>> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfires-smoke-millions-exposed-midwest-northeast-us/
>>
>> Those pictures are not an exaggeration. That's what it really looked like.
>>
>> Meanwhile the idiot treehuggers think they know what's best.
> 
> I am an admitted tree hugger but I am also a realist and think that one answer
> here is controlled burning. Another is education and strictly enforced laws
> against those who are careless and start fires through laziness and ignorance,
> clearing vegetation around and near dwellings and building fire resistent
> homes.

That would probably be more effective than increasing the price
of petrol, gas and electricity for already stretched workers.