Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

On Jul 31, 2026 at 4:37:14 PM EDT, "Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 7/31/2026 4:31 PM, Tara wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> They are too much like Nick, think they know it all.

Do you think they will ever grow up? Maybe they will just get old and
inefectually fade away - we can only hope.