Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

On Jul 31, 2026 at 4:20:28 PM EDT, "Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 7/31/2026 2:06 PM, 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.
> 
> Yes I agree. The funny thing is, the idiot treehuggers I'm talking about
> are killing more trees by not allowing beneficial things like controlled
> burns.

Exactly. Somebody aught to tell them.