Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

On Jul 31, 2026 at 3:13:55 PM EDT, "dart200"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On 7/31/26 12:10 PM, Tara wrote:
>> On Jul 31, 2026 at 2:25:03 PM EDT, "Julian" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> yah. And somebody should point out to the 'tree huggers' that controlled
>> burning actually saves more trees than not doing it because left to itself
>> wildfires will continue to happen. And trees will burn even more so because of
>> the weather changes and encroachment.
> 
> given that u actually live in canada maybe u should spend half a second
> researching what it takes to do effective fuel management for the
> forests ur actually talking about
> 
> god boomers are so stupid

https://treeplantation.com/controlled-burning